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Women boost SMSF balances

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
The average SMSF member balance for women has increased more than it has for men over a five-year period to the 2018/19 financial year, new data shows. The Australian Taxation Office's (ATO) annual statistical overview on SMSFs showed the average female ...

LGS names deputy chair, director

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2021
... McKeown will take over as deputy chair. She is currently the mayor of Penrith City Council and is the chair of the fund's audit and compliance committee and serves on the member services committee and risk committee. LGS chair Kyle Loades acknowledged ...

Challenger names chief financial officer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... product and sales at BT Life Insurance and head of executive office at BT Wealth and started her career as a graduate in audit and assurance at PwC Australia. Grimes was the president of the International Federation of Accountants for two years and is ...

Centrepoint Alliance posts $1.6m NPAT

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
... full-time employees (107.5 FTE now), $300,000 lower travel and marketing spend in COVID-19 restrictions, and $400,000 lower audit and consulting costs. The company had $14.7 million in cash at December end.

ASIC zeroes in on bad SMSF advice, conduct

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
The corporate regulator continues to hunt down perpetrators that give bad advice to self-managed super funds, sounding a warning that it is flexing its new powers in superannuation. ASIC commissioner Danielle Press told the recent SMSF Association's ...

The future of quality advice: SMSFA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... advisers proactively monitor client portfolios and accounts to pick up on any issues early rather than reflecting on an audit. Looking forward, both Ryan and Deloitte partner Tim Worner expect the advice industry to get bigger and could move away from ...

MMC acquires super fund administrator

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... IFAA owns Superannuation Compliance Services (SCS), a specialist consultancy on superannuation risk management, compliance, audit and training, and Independent Professional Services (IPS), an executive management, admin and company secretarial service ...

ASIC imposes licence conditions on Poynter Hargraves

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... obligations." The additional licence conditions require Poynter Hargraves to engage an independent expert to review its audit process, making recommendations about how the firm's auditing and conflict management systems could be improved. That independent ...

ASIC suspends RE licence

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
The corporate regulator has suspended the AFSL of a responsible entity that oversees a property and mortgage fund for breaching several compliance and reporting obligations. The licence of Queensland-based financial services provider Investors Exchange ...

Magnolia Capital takeover saga continues

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
Magnolia Capital has expressed doubts about the solvency of The Agency Group as the saga over its takeover bid continues. Magnolia said it has accepted the findings of the Takeovers Panel but continues to have concerns about the solvency of The Agency ...