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CORESOLUTIONS FUND MANAGERS (RF) PROPRIETARY LIMITED - Notification of change in auditors - CoreSolutions

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What this filing means

CoreSolutions Fund Managers has changed the external auditor of the CoreSolutions Exchange Traded Fund Scheme, appointing Ernst & Young in place of PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. with effect from 16 October 2026, the date the Financial Sector Conduct Authority approved the change. The manager says the switch follows the recent change in ownership of the manager and aligns the audit arrangements with the new ownership structure. The filing states the change did not arise from any disagreement with the outgoing auditor.

The company that runs this fund has a new owner, and it has swapped the firm that checks the fund's books — PwC out, Ernst & Young in, with the regulator's approval. The filing says the old auditor did not leave over any dispute about how the accounts were done. For a fund investor this is a housekeeping change: it tells you who signs off the numbers, not whether the fund is doing well.

Bear case

  • The filing gives no fee, audit-scope or cost detail, so the practical effect of the change on the Schemes cannot be sized from this announcement.

AI-generated summary by SENS-AI, based on the original JSE SENS filing.

SENS-AI conclusion

An administrative change with no economic content: the scheme auditor moves from PwC to Ernst & Young, effective on the FSCA approval date of 16 October 2026, and the filing explicitly rules out any disagreement over accounting practices, disclosure, audit scope or procedure, and reports no irregularities. That is a clean handover, not a signal about the fund's performance or its portfolio. So what: nothing changes for the investment case; the next set of audited scheme accounts will simply carry the new auditor's name.

The next audited financial statements of the Scheme are where the new auditor's sign-off will first appear.

Evidence from the filing

  • The change is an administrative handover with no economic detail.

    “the manager has initiated a change in the external auditor of the Schemes to align the audit arrangements with the new ownership structure.”

  • The filing rules out a dispute as the cause.

    “The change was not the result of any disagreement with the outgoing auditor concerning accounting practices, financial statement disclosure, auditing scope or procedure, and there were no reportable irregularities relating to the Schemes.”

  • The appointment and its effective date rest on regulatory approval.

    “The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (“FSCA”) approved the change on 16 October 2026.”
Category
Other Administrative
Event posture
No Edge
Published
Oct 20, 2026

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