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More calls for Royal Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... not present last week, as they were overseas. At the public hearing Senator Sam Dastyari mooted the prospect of calling in PwC as part of the inquiry, given that they have led several reviews at IOOF which have found no evidence of front-running, among ...

Claims of wrongdoing have no basis: IOOF

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... front-running, absence of an asset register and plagiarism allegations, dating back to 2008 and 2009. What followed was that PwC was commissioned in 2014 by IOOF to report on these allegations which declared "no evidence of front-running" according to ...

PwC acquires Smorgon family office business

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
PwC has acquired David Smorgon's family office business, Pointmade, in a bid to bolster its family wealth division. Following the acquisition, David Smorgon was appointed executive chairman of PwC's family, business and wealth practice in private clients. ...

PwC to review IOOF advice research division

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
IOOF has commissioned PwC to conduct a review of its advice research division following media reports of misconduct such as insider trading and front running. Group head of research and portfolio construction Matthew Drennan "is currently reviewing ...

Infrastructure allocations up 14% in two years

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... to Preqin research. This reflects the growing demand for infrastructure investment worldwide and supports the projection in PwC's 2014 "Capital project and infrastructure spending" report that the total global market value for infrastructure will reach ...

Millennial women rejecting insurance jobs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... Insurance is the least attractive financial services employment sector for women born between 1980 and 1995, according to PwC research. PwC's report, "Female millennials in financial services: strategies for a new era of talent", is based on a global ...

Old families make way for self-made billionaires

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... strong appetite for clever risk-taking, an obsessive focus on business and a strong work ethic. That's according to UBS and PwC's 2015 report, 'Billionaires: Master architects of great wealth and lasting legacies', which found that 917 self-made billionaires ...

ANZ sets up $30m compensation program for advice clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... it reported the issue to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and set up a remediation program with PwC and law firm Clayton Utz as external consultants. The bank is working with the regulator to "finalise the refund methodology ...

PROFILE: NAB head of wealth Andrew Hagger

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... homework," Hagger says with a smile. He studied Economics at the University of Adelaide and found a job at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) shortly after graduating. "I preferred commerce over economics as I had always wanted to deal with businesses... and ...

Marquee hire for PWC's investment advisory team

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
PwC has announced a marquee appointment to the investment advisory team within its consulting division. They have appointed David St. John, super fund investment counsel to legal super and a former chief investment officer to UniSuper. He will join ...