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Metrics hires three senior leads

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021
... she was a senior adviser to the Climate Bonds Initiative, based in London. Lalit Barhate is the new director of internal audit and was previously the head of internal audit at Avant Mutual Group where he spent more than nine years. The new hires are ...

ASIC provides licensing update

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021
ASIC has released its annual report on the number of Australian financial services licences (AFSLs) and Australian credit licences (ACLs) applied for and approved - revealing an increase in applications. The regulator revealed that between July 2020 ...

William Buck merges with sixth firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021
... skilled and experienced professionals offering services including wealth advisory, corporate advisory, tax services, and audit and assurance. The merger formalised on September 13, which saw Chahin become a director of William Buck, and associate directors ...

MUFG, First Sentier hire sustainable investment lead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021
... joins from MSCI, where she was an ESG research analyst. Karadzhova has also held analyst positions at Moody's and worked in audit at PwC. "Velina's considerable experience in the fields of ESG-related research will be invaluable in this new role to lead ...

Auditor referral threshold test troubling: SMSFA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
... threshold. The SMSFA believes if there is a threshold test to apply, it should be 30% in respect of total fees from multiple audit clients referred from one source and also introduce a two-year period in which auditors must consider audit fees from a ...

Former CFSGAM chief executive joins CFA Institute

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... and chief executive of State Street Japan. Lazberger served on the CFA Institute board from 2012 to 2018 and was in the audit and risk committee, the compensation committee, and the external relationship and volunteer involvement committee. He is also ...

APRA outlines remuneration standard

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021
... is now the requirement for entities to apply weight to non-financial measures such as customer complaints, breaches and audit findings when calculating variable remuneration. Entities will also require new minimum deferral requirements for variable remuneration ...

Halifax auditor to cough up fines

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021
... Halifax Investment Services have been slapped with criminal charges and will pay up to $40,000. In a first for Australia's audit sector, Robert James Evett and EC Audit (formerly Bentleys NSW Audit) have been convicted by the Commonwealth Director of ...

Super fund reporting, auditing reform consultation opens

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2021
Consultation has commenced on more stringent financial reporting and auditing requirements for superannuation funds, with the government looking to implement a framework that is commensurate with the size of the sector. The Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial ...

Booming market for financial services jobs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2021
... advertised on active job boards within financial services last quarter were in risk, legal, compliance, governance, and audit. "This has been a 20% increase overall in requests for risk and compliance professionals since the Royal Commission," Chisholm ...