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Life insurance ripe for disruption

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
... challenges in the life insurance industry are exacerbating profitably and forcing some players out of the market, the latest PwC report shows. Customer demographics, ongoing trust issues, heightened regulation, foreign entrants, technology and competition ...

Grant Samuel flags two senior appointments

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... manager, institutional sales. Before that, he was head of business development at MMC Asset Management, and has held roles at PwC, Westpac, AMP and Clayton Utz. New head of retail distribution Stephen Fletcher, meanwhile, was an internal promotion. Fletcher ...

New social bond advocates gender equality

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... measure the impact of these investments." Organisations included in the bond's initial portfolio include Lend Lease, Mirvac, PwC, KPMG Australia, Minter Ellison and Monash University. As at September 2016, female representation across the NAB Group sits ...

Myer Family Company appoints CIO

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
... Financial Group and head of institutional equities sales trading at CBA. In addition to investment hires, MFCo also hired former PwC partner Mark Sands to work directly with head of family office Maria Lui. "Owning family businesses brings a complexity ...

Regulator finalises ANZ compliance review

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
ASIC confirmed the completion of ANZ's independent compliance review. The review, which was conducted by PwC, investigated compliance functions of ANZ's life and general insurance, superannuation and funds management businesses within the OnePath group. ...

Regal FM COO to depart

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... senior software engineer with Deutsche Bank, a program manager at Altium and a software engineer at Open Telecommunications and PwC. Baldwin has participated in a transition process while Regal brought on its new chief executive, Brendan O'Connor, from ...

HLB Mann Judd builds Melbourne presence

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
... was managing partner at Moore Stephens Canberra and also held roles with EY and KPMG. McMenamin joined HLB Mann Judd from PwC Private Clients and brings expertise in tax structure, family business and succession and business strategy. He was previously ...

Aussie super funds building world-class investment teams

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
... the global average of 51. Canada's pension system has the largest average at 92. Regardless of the low number, the latest PwC global pension funds study shows Australian super funds are increasing the insourcing of investment functions with a focus on ...

IRESS appoints new CTO from IOOF

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2016
... information officer at Australian Wealth Management (which was subsequently acquired by IOOF). He has also held roles at S&P, PwC and Volkswagen Financial Services. Todd replaces David Walker, who will become chief architect at IRESS having been chief ...

Super industry CEO joins IIRC board

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
... forward to working with the IIRC board to move this agenda forward, in Australia and globally." Surveys recently conducted by PwC and EY both demonstrate investor demand for improvement in the way companies explain how they create value, with 70% of ...