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Governance professional joins SMSFA board

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
The SMSF Association is welcoming a non-executive director and governance professional to its board of directors. Robyn FitzRoy, who is currently a non-executive director of Gateway Credit Union, joins the SMSF Association board effective 1 June 2017. ...

BGL partners with Link for automation

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
BGL Corporate Solutions is partnering with Link Market Services to release the first SMSF administration software that automatically reconciles listed security holding balances with share registries. The Simple Fund 360 software will use registry data ...

ASIC cancels AFSL, bans former executives and fund managers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... exchange contracts and derivatives products to wholesale clients. ASIC found Gallop had failed to lodge financial statements, audit reports and breach reports on time as well as notify change of control and provide notification of the appointment of ...

NAB adviser puts beneficiaries at risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
NAB Financial Planning is undertaking a review after one of its advisers failed to correctly witness the signing of client Beneficiary Nomination Forms on more than one occasion. During a regular compliance review in late 2016, NAB Financial Planning ...

Crowe Horwath managing partner to depart for government role

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017
... become the Auditor-General for the Queensland Government. Brendan Worrall, currently Crowe Horwath's managing partner for audit and assurance for the Australian and New Zealand markets, will take on his new role in July. He said it was an honour to be ...

ATO hits back at claims of inadequacy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
The Australia Taxation Office has hit back at claims by the Senate economics committee that its "inadequate" approach to policing superannuation guarantee payments has exacerbated the growing problem of non-compliance. In a press release issued yesterday ...

State Street services over half of global ETF assets

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
State Street has announced that global ETF assets under its administration have exceeded US$2 trillion. The Boston-headquartered corporation now services more than half (55%) of the global industry's ETF and ETP assets under management, according to ...

Poor compliance sees AFSL suspended

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
Failure to fulfill key compliance and reporting obligations has resulted in the suspension of an AFSL by ASIC. As part of its ongoing efforts to improve standards across the financial services industry, the regulator suspended the licence of Australia ...

WTW launches insto platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
Willis Towers Watson has launched a platform that aims to clean up operational complexities facing investment managers and disrupt the world of institutional investing. The Asset Management Exchange or 'AMX' provides a centralised back-office and standardised ...

First State Super wins government lease

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... CPI for the full term of the concession. It also created a new external regulator, the Registrar General, to monitor and audit ARI's performance and if need be, resume control of the LPI business. Webb added First State will make every effort to make ...