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ASIC slams auditors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
... transparency in audit inspection results. A recent inquiry into the audit sector stopped short of breaking up vertical integration within providers of the big accounting and audit firms in a bid to combat conflicts of interest.

Audit inquiry overlooks vertical integration

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
An inquiry into the quality of audits has fallen short of recommending the breakup of the largest four vertically integrated accounting firms in a bid to combat conflicts of interest. The Regulation of Auditing in Australia: Final Report, tabled in ...

IFM Investors hits back at MP demanding probe

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... investigate industry superannuation funds' use of services from businesses related to them, which he termed as vertical integration. Wilson's letter started with a Lonsec report that highlighted about 70% of Hostplus's infrastructure assets were managed ...

APRA urged to probe industry funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... MP Tim Wilson has written to APRA chair Wayne Byres urging the regulator to conduct an investigation into vertical integration at industry super funds and related conflicts of interest. Wilson, who chairs the House of Representatives' Standing Economics ...

Class action accuses CFS of dodgy insurance fees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... banks." Jancauskas said CFS and CommInsure were motivated by self-interest, accusing the CBA subsidiaries of vertical integration. "This appears to have been a mutually beneficial arrangement that had the effect of putting profits ahead of people," she ...

Growing advice group in commissions fight

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2019
... with the blessing of the Government that ostensibly set out to wipe-out institutional product pushing and vertical integration."

Advice associations slammed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2019
... have been paying; completely ineffective in changing FSR, FOFA, industry funds, MySuper, TASA, banks' vertical integration and product flogging, LIF, FASEA, dealer fees, PI costs and a host of other issues have been left unchallenged, including the ...

Purdue bankruptcy vindicates ESG screens

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... billion to the trust. Purdue allegedly had plans to acquire a methadone business which it viewed as a kind of vertical integration for users of OxyContin. Purdue chair Steve Miller said: "This settlement framework avoids wasting hundreds of millions ...

US bonds present ESG problem

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
... corporate bonds. Purdue allegedly had plans to acquire a methadone business which it viewed as a kind of vertical integration for users of OxyContin. The company has been fined for mislabelling OxyContin and continues to battle a slew of lawsuits. "Some ...

Self-licensing trend boosts ClearView offering

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... obligations. LaVista chief executive Mike Pope points to the increased focus on professionalism and the breakdown of vertical integration as well as the brand damage institutionally-aligned groups have suffered from the Royal Commission as being the ...