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Sequoia chair steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... chair was April 18 following five years at the post. He will stay at Sequoia as a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee. Larsen is the former chair of Odyssey Funds Management, leading the board between 2002 and 2009. He was previously ...

Adviser numbers plateau

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024
The number of financial advisers in Australia appears to be stabilising at 15,602, as Count and AMP Financial Planning continue to hold the lion's share. Rainmaker's analysis of the ASIC Financial Adviser Register (FAR) shows that the population ...

intelliflo adds SMSF cashflow modelling capabilities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024
... intelliflo and its partners Product Rex and Omnium. "Research data is sent back into the advice journey providing a complete audit trail and basis for recommendations, and data will now be available as outputs within intelliflo's document designer module ...

Billionaire receives death penalty for embezzlement

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2024
A Vietnamese billionaire property developer has been sentenced to death for embezzling US$12.5 billion - the country's largest case of financial fraud, several reports show. The People's Court of Ho Chi Minh City yesterday handed down the death ...

'Licensee for hire' fined $1.25m by court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2024
... in place and was reliant on CARs self-reporting issues of non-compliance. It also had no formal or documented review or audit processes to assess whether CARs were compliant. It also admitted that it conducted no discernible due diligence on CARs and ...

Half of super funds to close in coming decade: Mercer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2024
The total number of superannuation funds in Australia will halve over the next decade, says Mercer. In its inaugural Shaping Super report, Mercer predicts the number of super funds in Australia will decline by another 30% over the next five years and ...

ATO refers SMSF auditors to ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2024
... in-house audits. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) referred 15 SMSF auditors to ASIC following a review of files from audit firms. ASIC said it had concerns that the financial statements for SMSF clients were prepared by the same firm that also conducted ...

WAM Leaders, QV Equities to merge

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
... management expense ration as a result of the removal of duplication of expenses such as ASX listing fees, share registry fees, audit fees, compliance costs, and other public listed company costs, as well as a larger pool of assets across which to spread ...

ASIC takes further action on Prospero

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
ASIC is pushing for Prospero Markets to be wound up following revelations that it was linked to one of Australia's biggest-ever money-laundering operations. Former officers and responsible managers of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives issuer Prospero ...

ASIC vigilant on bad SMSF advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
ASIC is putting the pressure on financial advisers to provide appropriate SMSF advice using "professional judgment", as the regulator flags serious instances of misconduct it wants to curb. At the annual SMSF Association National Conference, ASIC senior ...
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