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Large AFSLs lead advice complaints: AFCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023
... compliance audits in relation to personal advice provided to retail clients, with a minimum of 12 months between each successive audit, starting in 2023. The FSCP typically oversees lesser offences and can issue warnings or reprimands; order mandatory ...

Labor advances super performance test changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2023
... returns received by the member. "It would also be based on new reporting by super funds that has not yet been subject to audit and quality assurance. There is a real risk the performance test results will be wrong," AMP warned. "In the interest of consumers ...

Former Big Un executive smacked with insider trading charge

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2023
Andrew Corner, the former chief financial officer of defunct Australian tech company Big Un, has been charged with insider trading. In 2018, Big Un experienced a spectacular surge before allegations surfaced that it was paying commissions to a financial ...

Super funds consider future of PwC contracts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023
Two industry super funds have frozen future contracts with PwC, while others with contracts for audit or other services with the embattled management consultancy are keeping a watchful eye on developments. As reported by Financial Standard, Treasury ...

Collapsed trading house hit with charges

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
Two former directors of collapsed retail over-the-counter derivatives provider Berndale Capital Securities have been charged with dishonesty offences, including misusing over $1 million in company funds. Stavro D'Amore and Daniel Kirby are alleged to ...

Bank of Queensland slapped with EU

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023
APRA and AUSTRAC have agreed to a court enforceable undertaking (CEU) following weakness in the bank's risk management and money laundering controls. APRA said it's acted following several beaches or its prudential standards and a review that ...

More PwC staff to go, will remain anonymous

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2023
PwC acting chief executive Kristin Subbins confirmed the embattled firm will stand down more senior staff while tax breach investigations continue, however their names will not be revealed. In an open letter, Stubbins apologised for the firm sharing ...

Former fund manager director convicted

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
Holly Grofski, formerly of Global Merces Funds Management, has been convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment for falsifying documents and providing false information to an auditor. Grofski, whose financial services licence was cancelled by ...

ASIC revokes Centurion subsidiary licence, suspends fund manager

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
... wholesale client. The licence was suspended after Huntley Management failed to lodge financial statements and compliance plan audit reports for the 2021 and 2022 financial years for one of its managed schemes, RNY Property Trust. ASIC also found that ...

Super fund blunder likely down to bad data: Podcast

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023
Holding Redlich partner Luke Hooper says when it comes to AustralianSuper's recent intra-fund consolidation breach, it's likely the root cause lays in data entry. The recent case of AustralianSuper refunding 100,000 members it had held multiple ...