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KPMG names life insurance lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
KPMG has appointed a life insurance lead partner who previously held executive roles at AMP and Challenger. Pauline Blight-Johnston joins the consulting firm's actuarial and financial risk practice on October 8. She was most recently general manager ...

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 fund appoints deputy CIO

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... research with Frontier, Challenger, UniSuper and Lonsec. Before moving into investment he worked in the superannuation group at KPMG.

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
A new report by KPMG reveals fintechs founded by women are better investments than their male-founded counterparts. The UK Fintech Focus report analysed how the gender of those who found fintechs correlates to the success of those start-ups. It found ...

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
... continuing operations of $14.5 billion for the first half of this year - that's down 4% compared to the first half of last year. KPMG said the challenges facing the banks include slow lending growth and a softer domestic economy. There's also the significant ...

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 ...