Royal Commission pounds ASIC

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Then the mood changed, as Orr asked him about the tone of regular meetings between senior ASIC officials and the board member and senior executives of the entities ASIC is regulating, as part of ASIC’s “stakeholder engagement strategy”.

While he denied any hint of collusion or a softly softy style approach, Shipton did admit that no minutes were taken of these meetings, and often the senior executives were very guarded, and comments were kept to a high level.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.