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CFAs not immune to pay cuts

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
About 15% of CFAs working as investment professionals had a pay cut related to COVID-19, according to a new survey that says pay remained relatively resilient during the pandemic. CFA Institute surveyed 4600 investment professionals from its member ...

KPMG names risk consulting partners

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... AIA New Zealand and spent three years at ASB Bank as executive general manager, corporate strategy and chief internal auditor. de Wit was also a partner at EY in Auckland providing strategy, improvement and risk management advice to banking, insurance ...

Global Merces MD cops ASIC ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
The corporate regulator has banned Holly Grofski, the managing director of Global Merces Funds Management, from working in financial services for six months. ASIC's banning order is in addition to the criminal charges Grofski is facing, which alleges ...

ASIC cancels AFSLs

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
The corporate regulator has cancelled the Australian financial services licences (AFSL) of two providers for failing to lodge audited financial accounts and failing to maintain an AFCA membership. Victorian-based financial services provider and mortgage ...

Fund manager hit with serious charges

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2021
The former managing director of Global Merces Funds Management, which is now in liquidation, has been slapped with criminal charges for dishonest conduct and providing dodgy information about the fund's affairs. The court determined that Holly Grofski ...

NZ Super Fund appoints two GMs

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
... responsible for the finance, tax, internal audit and investment operations teams. Steed is the current chief internal auditor at ASB Bank, and previously worked as chief financial officer at UDC Finance and division financial controller at ANZ. She also ...

Dodgy SMSF operator loses appeal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) had been audited when in fact they had not. Following a referral from the ATO over SMSF auditor number misuse, the TPB found that Cross and his partner had failed to act honestly or with integrity and had failed ...

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 ...

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 ...

ASIC suspends RE licence

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... financial years ending 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. For the Investors Exchange Investment Fund, it failed to lodge auditor compliance reports by requisite dates in 2014 and 2016. For both funds, it failed to lodge the report for 2017, 2018 and 2019. ...