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Financial scams smash Australia

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
Latest research from KPMG shows financial scams are hitting Australia harder than both the US and UK. The consulting giant's inaugural Global Banking Fraud survey found Australia suffered a disproportionately high volume of financial scam attempts in ...

Aberdeen Standard hires retirement head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
... acquisitions and "other transformation areas." Nyilas also spent 10 years at IBM as the firm's global pensions leader, and advised KPMG on the future of its wealth management business across 2014 and 2015.

Industry pledges Uluru statement support

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... Nations Foundation about Big Super Day Out's deep impact. Last year, it returned $14.5 million in less than two weeks. KPMG was another financial institution to throw its weight behind the statement. Alison Kitchen, KPMG chair, signed the letter ...

Life expectancy declining: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
Latest research from KPMG debunks the assumption that life expectancy is increasing when in fact it has contracted for the fourth consecutive year. After analysing the mortality of UK retirees on defined benefit plans, the KPMG 2019 Pensions Accounting ...

Female fintechs make better investments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
... KPMG says the results are interesting especially given the low percentage of fintechs founded by women overall. KPMG Australia head of high growth ventures Amanda Price said: "This data from the UK reinforces that it is gender bias and workplace imbalance ...

ASFA chief joins Irish software provider

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
... Martin Fahy will join its board as non-executive director. Currently chief executive of ASFA, Fahy was previously a partner at KPMG and chief executive of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. Fahy will be keynote presenter at the FINEOS APAC ...

The state of the banks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... cost of remediation following the Royal Commission, as well as the challenge of rebuilding trust with customers. KPMG Australia's head of banking Ian Pollari said: "Falling housing demand, tightening credit standards and greater competition, in particular ...

Industry funds announce $26bn joint venture

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
... willing to have a skills-based board, a point over which Equip's attempt to merge with Energy Super fell apart, despite a KPMG report pegging the member benefits at 15 bps for Energy's members. Catholic Super's previous attempt to merge with ...

Industry funds eye SMSF market stronghold

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
Industry funds will shortly take the lead from SMSFs as the sector with the largest assets under management, new KPMG research predicts. KPMG's annual Super Insights report suggests by 2029, industry funds will have more than $2 trillion in assets and ...

Chinese investment in Australia down 36%

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
A new report from KPMG has revealed a 36.3% reduction in Chinese investments in Australia, from $13 billion in 2017 to $8.2 billion in 2018. The report was produced by KPMG and The University of Sydney Business School looking at a dataset covering investments ...