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Company alert service

Key points:

  • Use ASIC’s company alert service to keep track of changes made to companies.
  • It is a free service that anyone can use.
  • You create a profile and choose what you want to track.

About the company alert service

The company alert service is a free service that allows you to track certain changes made to a company. These are changes contained in documents that have been lodged with us.

You can set up profiles and manage alerts for:

  • a company or companies that you want to track
  • particular changes and documents of interest.

We will email you if a document has been lodged against a company you have selected in your profile(s). You can buy a copy of the document, or a company extract, using .

Information available via the company alert service

When you set up a profile on the company alert service, you will be asked to select the types of documents you want to be informed about.

Here is a list of document types:

Internal administration

These documents deal with:

  • changes of company name or type
  • change of registered office
  • initial appointment and changes to company officeholders and bodies
  • company shares, including allotment and alterations of shares, and notices relating to substantial shareholdings.

Buy-backs

These documents deal with company share buy-backs, including:

  • copies of resolutions
  • offer documents and notices
  • notice of cancellation of shares relating to buy-backs.

Debt

These documents include:

  • notices that companies have been placed in any type of external administration
  • notices of appointments of external administrators
  • notices of ceasing or changes to details of external administrators.

Deregistration

These documents deal with company deregistration, including:

  • applications to deregister a company
  • applications to restore a deregistered company to the register
  • all documents that result in a change in the status of a company to either ‘Strike off’ (SOFF) or ‘Deregistered’ (DRGD).

Disclosure notices

These documents note significant changes in an organisation that could affect market value. This can include:

  • changes in control
  • changes in assets
  • suspension of its listing on the ASX.

Financial

These documents include:

  • accounts of public companies, such as accounts of disclosing entities (yearly and half-yearly)
  • copies of accounts of proprietary companies, if they are required to lodge such documents
  • returns by management companies.

Fundraising

This category covers all fundraising documents, including supplementary prospectuses.

Takeovers (all)

This category covers all takeover documents.

Takeovers (short)

This category covers bidder's statements and target's statements.

How to use the company alert service

Before you start

You need a company alert service profile to set up and manage your alerts.

You may have up to 5 profiles. Each profile can track up to 25 companies.

Each profile is identified by an email address and a unique profile number. Keep the profile number, as you need it to change, display or cancel the profile.

You can use the same email address for all of your profiles.

You can update your profiles via our online service. For example, you can add companies or change details, such as your email address. You can also ask us to send you a list of all of the profiles linked to your email address.

Steps to create a profile and set alerts

Add a profile

On the page, select ‘Add’.

Enter an email address

Enter the email address you want us to send alerts to, then select ‘Submit’.

When creating a profile, you do not need to enter a profile number.

Complete the form

You will need to enter:

  • a unique name for the profile
  • an end date for the alert, which cannot be more than one year in the future
  • the ACN, ARBN or ASX listing code of the companies you want to track.

You will also need to select the types of documents you want alerts about. To do this, select the relevant boxes in the list.

You can choose as many categories as you want.

Then, select ‘Submit add’.

Check the details and note your profile number

We will send you an email with the details of your alert, including your profile number. You should get this by the following day. You will need to keep your profile number.

Steps to update alert details

You can update a profile at any time to add companies or change details, such as your email address.

Select ‘Change’

On the page, select ‘Change’.

Make your changes

You can update all information, except your profile number and the start date.

Respond to expiry reminders

We will send you an email 2 weeks before the expiry date to remind you that your alert will expire shortly.

If you want to continue getting alerts, you will need to extend your expiry date. Follow the steps above to update alert details and change the expiry date.

If you don’t need the alert, just let it expire and we will cancel it for you.