- Unit Pricing Manager
- Fund Accounting Manager
- Trust Accounting Manager
- Unit Pricing Analyst
- Taxation Accountant
- Actuary
- General Manager Fund Operations & Risk
- Investment Risk Managers
Unit Pricing 2020 Speakers
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Manager Portfolio Oversight, Australian Super
Investment and Operations Manager, ChristianSuper
Chief Executive Officer, Link Fund Solutions
Director - Investment & Wealth Advisory at Deloitte, Former Head of Investment Risk, APRA
Managing Director, Research at Parametric Portfolio Australia (TBC)
Head of Investment Operations, Qantas Superannuation Limited
MARK NEARY Director of Product, Asset Allocation Solutions, MILESTONE GROUP | AUSTRALIA
Managing Director McGing Advisory & Actuarial
Trustee Board Independent Director at IOOF Holdings Ltd
Director, Stephen Huppert Consulting
Principal
Director, Assurance and Advisory Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Executive Consultant Castle Hall Alternatives
Head of Investment & Reporting Asset Servicing, National Australia Bank Limited
Managing Partner at slca Sharyn Long Chartered Accountants
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Unit Pricing 2020 Schedule
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Opening remarks and addressing attendees by the Chair
Speakers:
- The different objectives of regulators and consultants
- Where there is complete agreement on the unit pricing
framework - The grey areas
- Where there can be different views
- How the Trustees can be faced conflicts of interest
- Are Trustees always able to access the levels of unit pricing skills and experience required to discharge their fiduciary duties
- When can the Operational Risk Reserve be accessed to compensate members
- Areas of concern the Royal Commission may have missed
- What impact can blockchain have on the unit pricing
calculation process - How Does Blockchain improve outcomes for Financial Services organisations and their customers
- How does Blockchain reduce risk in disseminating unit prices to industry participants
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BC GATEWAYS
- Do we need to strike unit prices more frequently than daily
- Should unit prices be struck monthly or weekly
- What are the impediments to changing the industry norm of daily pricing
- Who would be the beneficiaries of any changes
- What would be the drivers of change
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LUNCH BREAK
- The process to follow in developing or enhancing good
practice Unit Pricing Policies - internal and external documents that should be referenced - How to expand the Unit Pricing Policy into a training and
development tool - Sixteen key Unit Pricing Policies to consider
- Good and not so good Unit Pricing Principles
- The ten key controls that will mitigate the risk of a unit
pricing error - How to monitor implementation of the controls
- Unit Pricing reporting - how to raise the profile of the unit pricing team and provide concise and meaningful insights into unit pricing for the Executives and Board
Speakers:
- Essential policies
- Why policies can be different between different organisations
- Can we have too many policies
- Examples of good and not so good unit pricing policies
- The basic principles for a robust unit pricing governance
framework - Corners not to be cut
- Balancing the need to control costs with the need to have strong controls
- How to convince the organisation that the costs of strong controls are justified
- Unit pricing complexity – UP cycle, multiple inputs, timing
- What are the risks?
- Operational, financial, strategic, reputation, legal
- Managing these risks
- Prevention better than cure
- An effective risk management framework
- Operational environment controls - people, process and systems
- Preparedness – Processes, procedures, controls, actions
- Reviews, checks, confidence, comfort for Board & Trustees
- Who is conducting unit pricing
- Sourcing of independent prices
- NAV Review
- NAV Governance / Valuation Committee
- Investor Review and Expectation
- Castle Hall’s Global Industry observations
Closing remarks from the Chair
- Why every organisation must have an error rectification
plan - What a plan might look like
- “Must haves” for an error rectification plan
- Communication with the Board and the regulator, why,when and how
- The extent to which the Fund can rely on the custodian’s
controls - Essential checks and controls over the custodian’s unit pricing process
- The distinction between the custodian’s unit pricing policies and the Fund’s policies
- How to address segregation of unit pricing dutues issues within a smaller Fund
PANEL MEMBER
GRACE YAM , Investment and Operations Manager,
ChristianSuper
Other Panel Members TBA
- How automation can enhance controls
- How to avoid duplication of checks and controls
- Where technology can add value in excess of the potentially increased costs
- Case study of efficiency gains with enhanced automation
- Increasing automation
- Focus on data
- The many purposes of the ABOR
- Increasing focus on unlisted assets
- APRA heat map and effective tax benchmarking
- Fund mergers
- After-tax investing and performance reporting
- Retirement bonus’ credits for pension members
LUNCH BREAK
- Why DTA caps are essential
- Why some organisations may have ignored DTA caps
- How to specify appropriate DTA caps
- Should the caps be at a Fund or member option level for a super fund
- Problems resulting from inappropriate or non-existatnt
DTA caps
- An example of a commonly used model
- Stepping through the process
- Why the outcomes are not always what you might expect
- Options to address unexpected outcomes
- Is a complex model really justified
- Analysis and debate over the previous sessions from industry experts
- Can we make tax provisioning and tax true-upssimpler
- Do more frequent adjustments to provisions negate the need for complex provisioning models
- Why does the true up so often produce spurious results
- What are the key tax provisioning controls we mustimplement
PANEL MEMBERS
- MARTIN WALSH, Trustee Board Independent Director at IOOF Holdings Ltd
- RAEWYN WILLIAMS , Managing Director, Research at Parametric Portfolio Australia
- SHARYN LONG , Managing Partner at slca Sharyn Long Chartered Accountants
- DAN HEALEY , Head of Investment Operations, Qantas Superannuation Limited
Closing remarks from the Chair and vote of thanks by the Chairman
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