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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 ...

Divestment more political than financial: PWC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
The main impact of institutional investor divestment has been political not financial, said PWC in an asset consulting newsletter released yesterday. "Unless the size of the divestment is substantial, it may not impact the share price of the company ...

High-calibre superannuation: 2014 CIO and COO Award recipients announced

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... Managing Director at Binalong Advisory Services, A Jeff Bresnahan - Chairman at SuperRatings and David Coogan - Partner at PwC. Supporting the event were Commonwealth Bank (primary sponsor) and sponsors Challenger, SS&C, Ernst & Young, JPMorgan, KPMG ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... an Australian British Chamber of Commerce lunch, all in Sydney. The CEDA workplace flexibility event in Adelaide features PwC managing partner Gavin Moss and AllianceBernstein economist Guy Bruten offers a briefing in Sydney on Australian economy in ...

Profile: Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand chief executive Lee White

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... University in Sydney. After graduation, White went straight into employment as an accountant at Coopers & Lybrand (which became PwC after a merger with Price Waterhouse in 1998). It was here that he saw the real possibilities of his chosen career. "I ...

Australian family businesses lag global counterparts

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... family businesses over the last 12 months has lagged that of their global counterparts, according to the latest survey by PwC. Just over half (53%) of the local family businesses surveyed reported sales growth over the period, while a total of 65% reported ...

Former PwC exec joins Towers Watson

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
Towers Watson has appointed former PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) executive Paul Taylor to the role of senior investment consultant. At PwC Taylor headed a team providing investment consulting advice to institutional clients in Australia and overseas. ...