Australian Securities and Investments Commission
I seek access to documents recording the assessment framework used in the review reported in ASIC media release 26-014MR, "ASIC urges super trustees to step up and address serious gaps in anti-scam…
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I seek access to documents recording the assessment framework used in the review reported in ASIC media release 26-014MR, "ASIC urges super trustees to step up and address serious gaps in anti-scam and fraud protections" (4 February 2026), being the desktop review of anti-scam and fraud-related website content across 47 superannuation funds, benchmarked against four major banks and organised under the dimensions of Availability, Quality and Actionability. Specifically, I request: 1. Any document setting out the criteria, sub-criteria or checklist against which reviewed entities' website content was assessed, including any document organising those criteria under the dimensions of Availability, Quality and Actionability; 2. Any scoring rubric, rating scale, or guidance describing how a criterion was judged to have been met or not met, including any weighting applied between the three dimensions; 3. Any instructions, guidance, training material or quality-assurance procedure provided to the officers or contractors conducting the review; 4. Any document describing how the four major banks' content was used as a benchmark, including how comparability was established and how the comparator institutions were selected; 5. Any blank or template assessment form or data-collection instrument used in the review. I am not seeking, and ask that you exclude from the scope of this request: - the identity of any reviewed entity, or any entity-specific assessment, score, result or correspondence; - any completed assessment forms or underlying results data; - internal legal advice
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The released document is an internal ASIC draft report, marked "DRAFT" and "INTERNAL ONLY", titled "Scams and fraud evaluation (SAFE)", dated 6 October 2025 (FOI 2627-067). It records a desktop review of website scam and fraud communications by 47 superannuation funds, benchmarked against the big four banks, assessed on availability, quality and actionability across 36 questions. Key findings include that 41 of 47 funds had at least basic scam material, that only one in five had a dedicated scam reporting contact, that most content was pitched above appropriate reading levels, and that most funds scored 40-60% against banks' over 80%. The report proposes letters to poorly performing trustees and a news article, with no enforcement action or penalties. The methodology appendix describes selection criteria and methodology, which is relevant to the requested assessment framework. Some passages are redacted, and one section is withheld under s 37(2)(b).
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