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Victorian SMSF auditor fails to overturn disqualification

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... said. "If the impression is given by an approved SMSF auditor that they perform a simple task for a low fee, that auditor may not be completing the job adequately and properly giving rise to a risk of scrutiny of both the approved SMSF auditors and the ...

ASIC calls out super trustees over 'weak' anti-scam practices

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... confirming that the person requesting the transfer was the member rather than looking for flags to indicate that the member may have been tricked," Constant said. In addition, ASIC said trustees did not have sufficient oversight of their external administrators' ...

SMC pushes for DBFO to curb retiree tax bills

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... they didn't know what else to do with it or how to do it. A further 30% said it was because they're currently not working but may in the future, and a further 19% said they simply hadn't decided what to do with their super. On the flip side, 56% of those ...

AustralianSuper welcomes AI tech competition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... market is far broader than just big tech." Gleeson added that there were some similarities between what investors have, and may continue to see, and what occurred during the dotcom boom. "In some ways this development echoes the tussle between hardware ...

Auditors tighten fist on greenwashing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... receiving direct assistance from internal auditors. The new standards permit internal auditors' involvement, while Australia may see a ban. Three of the Big Four accounting houses - Deloitte, KPMG, and PwC - support a ban, as do the major industry associations. ...

Super failures, greenwashing: ASIC's key issues in 2025

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... steps to review and respond to issues arising from these changes and to consider potential vulnerabilities and harms that may emerge with growth in private markets," ASIC said. "Both public and private markets are important to our economy and play a ...

Ausfood Super appoints chief executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... at AvSuper for three years until the $2.4 billion superannuation fund was swallowed up by Australian Retirement Trust last May. AvSuper provided superannuation services to the Civil Aviation Authority, which later split into Air Services Australia and ...

Chief executive misbehaviour stifles investment returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... such events. Nevertheless, there can be "red flags" that point to executives not acting in shareholders' interests and "this may lead to negative behaviour." In the past year, a series of high-profile management indiscretions impacted Australian listed ...

RBA is 'overachieving' on inflation target: GSFM

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
... growth is slowing. "Although NAIRU is notoriously difficult to estimate, the RBA has hit its head around the fact that it may be lower..." Simultaneously, Miller believes the RBA may have overestimated inflation. "I think the RBA's projection for [inflation] ...

Vanguard fined US$106m for investors' massive tax bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... also found that Investor TRF prospectuses were "materially misleading because they stated that the funds' distributions may be taxable as ordinary income or capital gains, and that capital gains distributions could vary considerably from year to ...