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ASX Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations: 4th edition
The 4th edition of the ASX Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations focuses strongly on the link between culture, values and community expectations, consistent with the themes that emerged from the Royal Commission. ...
High Court delivers historic ruling on native title compensation
The High Court has delivered its eagerly awaited decision on how compensation for the extinguishment of native title is to be calculated ...
Corporate culture and conduct risk
Regulators particularly in the UK and Australia are increasingly interested in corporate culture in the financial services industry its impact on the integrity of the system and what the regulators are doing to try to entrench a corporate culture that works for the benefit of consumers and investors ...
Providing digital financial product advice to retail clients
ASIC is consulting on a new regulatory guide for providers of digital financial product advice or robo-advice The regulatory guide is intended to help new entrants and existing Australian financial services licence holders For new entrants and licensees needing a reminder there is a nice summary of ...
The Public-Private Partnership Law Review
Partners David Donnelly and Nicholas Ng examine public-private partnerships PPPs in Australia including the year in review the general framework bidding and award procedures recent decisions and the outlook for 2015 ...
PNG securities laws rewrite
Those dealing in PNGs capital markets should be aware that the PNG Parliament recently passed a package of legislation to substantially amend and strengthen the regulation of its capital markets The regime will introduce new licensing requirements for those involved in activities such as securities ...
The signing of the Paris Agreement and other developments
With the Australian Government Minister for the Environment having touched down in New York the world is gearing up for the signing of the Paris Agreement at a ceremony in New York at 1150pm AEST tonight Partner Andrew Mansour Senior Associate Emily Gerrard and Lawyer Ellie Mulholland consider the ...
Raising professional standards of financial advisers
Following on from the reviews conducted by the Parliamentary Joint Committee and the Financial System Inquiry the Government delivered on its promises by releasing an exposure draft of the Corporations Amendment Professional Standards of Financial Advisers Bill 2015 the Bill late last year for ...
Fact sheet: Show me the money: Tax reforms to encourage investment in startups
The Ideas Boom has arrived with the Federal Governments National Innovation and Science Agenda Central to the new agenda are a raft of tax and regulatory measures designed to encourage greater investment in startups to help them both get off the ground and to survive the valley of death with greater ...
Conflicted remuneration, dreaming and the law of common sense
How many times have you heard someone say FoFA is settled Next time you hear that you should reach for one of the many quotable quotes from The Castle and tell em theyre dreamin First there are the so-called Retail life insurance industry reforms Then get ready for remuneration reforms in the ...