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Private markets need better regulation

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Mar 10, 2025 – 3.49pm

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The AFR View is to be commended for supporting the Australian Securities and Investment Commission’s approach to achieving greater transparency (“Good regulation could be the making of private markets”).

But the comment that ASIC chairman Joe Longo is now seeking to understand “the known unknowns” could have added that this should have occurred to the regulators back when public ownership and screen dealing replaced the mutual structures of the “public” exchange-traded markets.