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State Street appoints APAC head of asset managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
State Street has hired from KPMG to fill the newly created role of head of asset managers segment, Asia Pacific. Neil Macdonald will join the role effective May 14. He will lead State Street's engagement strategy for asset manager clients in Asia ...

KPMG recommends super changes

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
KPMG says SG contributions should be included in the Commonwealth Paid Parental Scheme, among three recommendations to level the gender gap in the workforce. Its recently published paper Towards a more equal sharing of work says since the 1970s, the ...

Rise of the mega funds continues

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
... in the superannuation sector will see most of Australia's retirement savings managed by just 12 funds, new research shows. KPMG's annual Super Insights report analysed APRA and ATO data and found that once the mergers that have been previously announced ...

New board director at AFIC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
The $9 billion LIC has added a former KPMG executive to its board. Australian Foundation Investment Company has appointed Julie Fahey as a non-executive director effective April 22. Fahey spent 10 years at KPMG as a partner, during which her roles included ...

HESTA appoints board director

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
... sector, including as the chief executive of sportsmed hospital and orthopaedics. He was a chartered accountant and worked with KPMG for over 10 years in UK and Australia. Daniel Sims was the chief executive of Ramsay Health Care's Australian operations. ...

Actuaries Institute names new president

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
The Actuaries Institute has named a partner at KPMG as its new president. Jefferson Gibbs takes over from Hoa Bui, who was appointed to the post in January 2020. Gibbs is a partner at KPMG specialising in general insurance. He joined the firm in October ...

NZ Super Fund adds board member

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
... from 2005 until 2018. Prior to that, she spent 11 years as managing director at Citi in both Europe and Asia, and worked at KPMG based in Scotland. She has also worked in London, Hong Kong and Singapore and spent time on transactions in Korea, Thailand ...

Industry fund expands leadership team

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... member-based and government organisations. She was most recently a director of customer, brand and marketing advisory at KPMG Australia, and worked for consultancy firms like Accenture and Nous Group. Chief marketing officer Peter Theordorakopoulos said ...

Aura hires executive from Challenger

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... Gresham Partners as a property manager. He has over 12 years' finance management experience working for GE Capital, Nestle and KPMG. The Aura Property Credit Fund is four years old and has delivered 8.14% p.a. in the last 12 months and 43.57% p.a. since ...

ASIC cancels stockbroker AFSL

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... meeting Ferrier Hodgson placed Halifax into liquidation and the administrators were appointed as liquidators. According to KPMG, a joint hearing of the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of New Zealand in respect to the distribution of client ...