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The beginning of the end of the unit trust's monopoly? A look at corporate CIVs
Insight 04 Sep 2015

The Board of Taxations report on tax arrangements applying to collective investment vehicles advocates extending tax neutrality to three additional collective investment vehicles corporates modelled on the Luxembourg SICAV limited partnerships and common contractual funds In this issue we examine ...

Regulating bonuses: will Australia be next?
Insight 05 Aug 2015

The UKs Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority released rules in June this year to further tighten what are already fairly onerous restrictions on the payment of bonuses to staff in banks building societies and certain big investment firms The worlds financial regulators ...

Allens provides direction on Skybridge buyout
News 29 Sep 2014

Allens has continued to advise on major private equity deals in 2014 by acting for Lazard Australia Private Equity on its buyout of Australian infrastructure solutions business Skybridge. Skybridge ...

ASIC's enforcement powers may receive a boost
Insight 05 Feb 2015

In preparing its Final Report the FSI has clearly paid close attention to the report of the Senate Economics References Committees Report into ASICs performance and its recommendations designed to strengthen ASIC through a combination of better funding an enhanced regulatory toolkit and higher ...

Risk management - what, if anything, does the 'three lines of defence' model do?
Insight 05 Nov 2014

From 1 January 2015 a new common risk management prudential standard will apply to banks general insurers and life companies and in many cases to other companies in the corporate groups in which those institutions sit Michael Mathieson looks at the three lines of defence model that APRA proposes to ...

Allens advises on $1 billion sale of Wesfarmers insurance broking business
News 26 Jun 2014

Allens has advised on one of the largest trade sales of the 2013/14 financial year. The firm advised long-standing client Wesfarmers on the sale of its insurance broking and premium funding busines ...

Allens and Linklaters lead way on Euro issuances for Australian corporates
News 07 Oct 2014

Global integrated alliance partners Allens and Linklaters have advised the arrangers on a €500 million Euro Medium Term Note issuance for Australia's largest rail freight operator, Aurizon Network. ...

ASIC's no action position on the wholesale/retail test for self-managed super funds
Insight 11 Aug 2014

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced that it will take no action where a self-managed superannuation fund trustee is treated as a wholesale client notwithstanding that the trustee does not have to meet the 10 million net asset threshold even though the financial service ...

Running out of time for retirement income reform
Insight 22 Jul 2014

The Government has released a consultation paper on the regulation of retirement income streams It says that the Government wants to encourage the development of more retirement products But this is old news and the paper offers few concrete policy proposals other than in the area of deferred ...

Adviser misconduct and client losses - ASIC's views
Insight 18 Dec 2015

ASIC has released a consultation paper about client review and remediation programs to address client losses because of adviser misconduct Partners Michelle Levy and Malcolm Stephens look at what ASIC says a licensee should do if they identify systemic misconduct by advisers providing personal ...

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