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KPMG hires legal services partner

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
KPMG's Australian legal advisory business has hired a partner from Norton Rose Fulbright to work with financial services companies. Zein El Hassan is the 19th partner on the KPMG Law Australia team. He will report to the team's head Stuart Fuller. El ...

OneVue offloads trustee business

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... Sargon's acquisition spree of financial advice technology provider Decimal, IOOF's corporate trust business Australian Executor Trustees, and Madison Financial Group in April. Chief executive Phillip Kingston said the acquisition will play an ...

Banks must reshape to survive compliance and technology crunches

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... continued spending in technology or face being left behind when it comes to innovation. In their post FY18 analysis of Australian bank results, KPMG and EY point to several compliance and technology headwinds facing the sector and suggest cost discipline ...

Productivity Commission counters group insurance research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... Commission said it undertook its own modelling into the fiscal cost and benefits of group insurance that counters research from KPMG and Rice Warner. The paper cited research from KPMG which stated if the current insurance in superannuation system continued ...

Real estate investment manager bolsters debt team

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
... debt for Asia Pacific Martin Priestley, said the commercial real estate debt market was becoming more attractive as Australian banks tighten lending. "Pullback from the market by the Australian commercial banks has heightened the need for alternative ...

AFA names 2018 Rising Star

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... Rebecca is a true Rising Star," Kewin said. ANZ Wealth head of sales Don Sillar recognised Pritchard's background at KPMG was central to her success. "Rebecca's professional experience at KPMG and her strong technical capability has shaped her ...

New accounting standards put pressure on life insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
Australian life insurers are unprepared for two new major accounting standards that will shake up the way profit is reported, a KPMG survey shows. The global survey of 160 life and health insurers, and reinsurers included Australian companies. It gauged ...

Life insurance sector strengthens

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... 2014. This was driven largely by Nippon Life Japan acquiring 80% of MLC Life Insurance in 2015. CBA sold 100% of its Australian and New Zealand life insurance businesses to AIA Group for $3.8 billion. The sale of CommInsure Life and Sovereign also includes ...

Foreign owners take over life insurance: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... 2014. This was driven largely by Nippon Life Japan acquiring 80% of MLC Life Insurance in 2015. CBA sold 100% of its Australian and New Zealand life insurance businesses to AIA Group for $3.8 billion. The sale of CommInsure Life and Sovereign also includes ...

Commitment to ethical investing booms

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
... investment strategy - jumping 39% compared to the prior corresponding period. In the year to 31 December 2017, the 2018 Australian Responsible Investment Benchmark Report focused on the size, growth and performance of the Australian responsible investment ...