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Aura hires executive from Challenger

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... Gresham Partners as a property manager. He has over 12 years' finance management experience working for GE Capital, Nestle and KPMG. The Aura Property Credit Fund is four years old and has delivered 8.14% p.a. in the last 12 months and 43.57% p.a. since ...

ASIC cancels stockbroker AFSL

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... meeting Ferrier Hodgson placed Halifax into liquidation and the administrators were appointed as liquidators. According to KPMG, a joint hearing of the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of New Zealand in respect to the distribution of client ...

Ignition Advice chief exits

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
... advice in Australia and Europe. Prior to taking on the top role at Ignition, Prasad was a director of wealth management at KPMG Australia for two-and-a-half years. He has also held top positions at Capital Position Ventures and Genesys Wealth Advisers. ...

ASIC slams auditors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
... appropriately and test the accuracy of net asset values which were the basis for asset management fees. PwC, BDO, Grant Thornton and KPMG failed to obtain reasonable assurance that the financial reports were free of material misstatement in numerous ...

FPA appoints director

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has appointed a former KPMG partner to its board and chair of the audit and risk committee. Diana D'Ambra has joined the board following the resignation of Paul Ruiz after serving nearly two years ...

Jarden hires from UBS, HSBC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... where he was an associate portfolio manager managing domestic and global fixed income portfolios. Singh started his career at KPMG as an auditor before moving into the public markets graduate program at AMP Capital.

Shipton's tax bill under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... agreement that ASIC would pay for his tax advice as part of his remuneration. There were three procurements of tax advice from KPMG made by ASIC. These appear to have each been for Shipton to receive personal tax advice. Each procurement had a value ...

Audit inquiry overlooks vertical integration

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... Melbourne professor Allan Fels commented that conflicts of interest should not exist by prohibiting the big firms - Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC - from providing consulting work for firms they audit. "If that auditor is also performing services for the ...

Powerwrap exec jumps to Insync

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
... five years and head of strategy and business development at FuturePlus Financial Services. He has also held senior roles at KPMG, Decimal, Australia Skandia and Asgard Wealth Solutions. Insync executive and investment specialist Grant Pearson told Financial ...

ASIC chair steps aside pending pay review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KANIKA SOOD, ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... to the Treasurer from the Auditor-General, prior to Shipton joining ASIC, the regulator approved an engagement letter from KPMG to provide taxation services to Shipton at a cost of $4050. Shipton was later informed by KPMG the fees would actually be ...