The proposed Personal Liability for Corporate Fault Reform Bill 2012 (“Bill”) represents the first tranche of the Commonwealth Government’s response to the Directors’ Liability reform project, which forms part of the Council of Australian Governments’ National Partnership Agreement to Deliver a Seam

The Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee has published an information paper on some of the approaches taken in Australia and internationally in respect of the regulation of executive remuneration arrangements, including the use and implications of various types of incentives and reporting on

The Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee have released a discussion paper considering a range of matters concerning managed investment schemes.

The Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee has released a report examining the possibility of reducing the complexity of executive remuneration reports and revising the remuneration setting framework to simplify the incentive components of these arrangements.

The Financial Services Authority has released a consultation which assessed seven major providers of structured products between November 2010 and May 2011.

The Financial Services Authority has issued guidance on its expectations of Non-Executive Directors (“NED”) in delivering the appropriate management of retail conduct risk within firms.

The Bank of England has published a speech by Paul Tucker (Deputy Governor Financial Stability, member of the Monetary Policy Committee and member of the Financial Policy Committee) entitled Central Counterparties: the Agenda.

The International Organization of Securities Commissions has published a consultation report which outlines principles against which both industry and regulators can assess the quality of regulation and industry practices concerning the suspensions of redemptions in collective investment schemes.

This Report was prepared in response to the Financial Stability Board's recommendation that the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision should develop a report on the range of methodologies for risk and performance alignment of compensation schedules and their effectiveness in light of experienc

The Hedge Fund Standards Board have published a consultation paper which set out a series of amendments to its Hedge Fund Standards which are designed to make the Standards more relevant internationally and to strengthen the Standards in the light of a number of issues that became apparent during th