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SMSFA prepares delegates for major super tax reform

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024
The SMSF Association is urging the wealth management sector to embrace learning opportunities at this year's National Conference, particularly as major reforms such as the $3 million superannuation tax changes loom. The SMSFA will host its flagship ...

UniSuper appoints chief risk officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024
The $124 billion super fund will welcome a new chief risk officer this month, making the jump from Cbus. Wade Martin will join UniSuper in the role on February 21. He is currently chief risk officer at Cbus, a role he's held since August 2019. Martin ...

Caddick SMSF clients should recoup all funds: Lawyer

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
... Another example is that the GST line in those statements often didn't add up." The class action argues that at least one auditor should have at least noticed a discrepancy from the time Caddick started her operation in 2012 to 2020 when she disappeared. ...

'Significant deficiencies' lead APRA to act against NGS Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2023
... APRA said the decision to implement the additional conditions follow an internal report prepared by NGS's internal auditor in August 2022 and an independent review undertaken in April of this year at APRA's request following the attack. "The ...

New Zealand sovereign wealth fund appoints acting chief

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023
... earlier this year and will exit on December 8. Steed joined the Guardians in July 2021, after serving as chief internal auditor at ASB Bank. She has 25 years' experience in financial services and banking, holding key executive roles in finance and general ...

'Should have known better': AAT tells auditor

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023
A former auditor who was busted for auditing her own husband's SMSF has seen her disqualification upheld by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). In August 2022, Janette Townshend was found to have breached independence requirements by auditing ...

Perth Mint enters voluntary enforceable undertaking

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023
... counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) laws. In August, the financial crimes regulator ordered the appointment of an external auditor to Gold Corporation, which trades as The Perth Mint, to assess the entity's compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering ...

SEC sues Kraken exchange again

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
... holding customer cash. It also allegedly mixes its customers' crypto assets with its own, creating something its own auditor had identified as "a significant risk of loss" to its customers. The SEC filed its complaint against Kraken in San Francisco ...

Financial services firms hit with criminal charges

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2023
... licence," it said. The ultimate penalty for each failure to lodge a profit and loss statement and balance sheet, as well as an auditor's report with the profit and loss statement and balance sheet, is $1.33 million.

Caddick victims sue auditors in class action

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023
A new class action led by victims of Melissa Caddick alleges that auditors of their self-managed superannuation funds failed their jobs to detect fraudulent activities. Twenty-four victims, together with the help of Melbourne-based law firm Mackay Chapman ...