Securities class action reform should be a New Year priority
The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) has backed calls by an influential Parliamentary Joint Committee for substantial reform to Australia’s securities class action settings. 22 December 2020 SHARE THIS
The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) has backed calls by an influential Parliamentary Joint Committee for substantial reform to Australia’s securities class action settings.
The Committee found that shareholder class actions are ‘generally economically inefficient and not in the public interest’ with shareholders in net terms no better off.
AICD Managing Director and CEO, Angus Armour, said, “Australia has become a lucrative market for litigation funders capitalising on our strict liability disclosure settings to reap major financial rewards. We welcome the Committee’s finding that reform is needed to re-balance the no-fault disclosure laws driving the outcomes.
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Reserve Bank of Australia
The Governor, Philip Lowe, is pleased to announce the appointment of Michelle McPhee to the position of Assistant Governor (Business Services) at the Reserve Bank of Australia. The Bank considered a competitive field of internal and external candidates for the role, which will become vacant on the retirement of Lindsay Boulton in February 2021.
Ms McPhee is currently the Head of Banking at the Reserve Bank of Australia, a role she has held for the last four years. She spent six years as the Head of Risk and Compliance and, prior to that, held a number of senior management positions at the Bank primarily in financial market operations. She is currently a non-executive director of the Australian Payments Network, deputy chair of Note Printing Australia and chair of both organisations’ audit and risk committees. Ms McPhee joined the Bank in 1988.