James Shipton

Funds management

Shipton writes to Chalmers and Jones on workplace safety

The former ASIC chair has penned an open letter to the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer asking for their support following a Senate appearance that detailed work, health...

People & Products

Former regulator Shipton joins Superhero board

Former ASIC chair, James Shipton, has joined share trading and superannuation platform Superhero as a non-executive director....

People & Products

Shipton replacement announced

The Government has appointed Joe Longo as its chair, replacing James Shipton....

Policy & Regulation

How ASIC executives paid $33,000 to a team-building consultancy

Faced with rebuilding its management culture in the wake of the expenses controversy surrounding its chairman and deputy chairman, the Australian Securities and Investmen...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC's Shipton confirms retaining top legal team

The chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has temporarily returned to his role heading up the regulator but only after retaining the services o...

Financial planning

ASIC says the levy is mechanical, Hume says ASIC has discretion

The cost of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority functions may yet add to the ASIC levy paid by financial advisers....

Policy & Regulation

Should the industry be paying for ASIC’s policy advice to Govt?

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is recouping millions of dollars from the industry to pay for the provision of policy advice to Government. Should th...

Features

InFocus: Is it time to impose external oversight on ASIC?

Mike Taylor writes that in the aftermath of the Thom Review into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission the Government has the opportunity to impose externa...

Policy & Regulation

Did Shipton get the benefit of the doubt?

The Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, made his decision on Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, James Shipton’s future based on Treasury legal advice on w...

Policy & Regulation

Shipton to depart ASIC

Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair, James Shipton has been cleared of any wrongdoing but has agreed to leave the regulator....

Financial planning

Frydenberg urged to make decision over ASIC chair

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been criticised for ‘stalling’ over the tenure of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair James Shipton following an expe...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC paid top legal firm for Shipton opinion

Documents provided to a Parliamentary Committee have revealed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission paid a top tier legal firm for an independent opinion o...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC treating Parliamentary question as 'hypothetical'

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has effectively encouraged parliamentarians to cite any specific instances of the regulator’s personnel briefing the ...

Policy & Regulation

Keeping it verbal: Why a behavioural report on ASIC management is not available

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission retained the services of a special behavioural analysis firm to observe meetings of its leadership team but is claimi...

Policy & Regulation

Troubled ASIC faces imposition of external board

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission faces being oversighted by an external board as the Government considers ways of avoiding further controversies such ...