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KPMG expands advice remediation team

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
KPMG recently launched a hiring spree to support clients with financial advice remediation efforts. As wealth managers further move to remediate customers for various fees for no service and financial advice misconduct, KPMG is bolstering its managed ...

Local fintech investment soars

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
... industry is catching the interest of international investors and raked in US$600 million of funding last year, according to KPMG analysis. KPMG's 2018 Pulse of Fintech report showed Australian-based Avoka and its sale to Temenos ranked sixth among ...

APRA could oversee stalled super fund mergers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... the new merged fund's board. Energy Super and Equip Super's boards agreed a merger was in best interest of their members. A KPMG report even put a number on this, saying the members of the combined fund could save more than $20 million. However, talks ...

Former JPMAM executive joins boutique advice group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... the same time as fellow associate adviser Jessica Walker. With a background in accounting, Walker has previously worked for KPMG and Mudgee's Lawrence Bennett Portelli. "Having grown up in Mudgee, it is exciting to join a firm of the calibre of Profile ...

Mercer names new people and culture lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2019
... Michele Glover, who moved to AustralianSuper as group executive of people and culture in July 2018. Morris spent six years at KPMG, working across a number of roles, the most recent being head of people experience and reward. Prior to KPMG, she spent ...

Australia Day honours recognise industry stalwarts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... business services at Commonwealth Bank as well as group chief financial officer from 1997 to 2002. He is a former partner at KPMG and is current chair of Lendlease. He is also chair of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and trustee of the National Gallery ...

VC investments in Australia hit record high

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
Latest KPMG research shows the amount of venture capital funding invested in Australia last year hit a record high, with about $1.2 billion invested. However despite the record result, Australian venture capital investing is just a slither of the overall ...

MLC expands customer experience efforts

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
MLC Life Insurance appointed its first chief customer experience officer. Former KPMG partner Louise Portelli has been appointed to lead the life firm's customer experience efforts, and will link with MLC in March. Reporting to chief executive David ...

KPMG hires legal services partner

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
KPMG's Australian legal advisory business has hired a partner from Norton Rose Fulbright to work with financial services companies. Zein El Hassan is the 19th partner on the KPMG Law Australia team. He will report to the team's head Stuart Fuller. El ...

CRO departs corporate super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... industry." Prior to his role at the $20.3 billion corporate super fund, Brailsford served in a risk management advisory role at KPMG, which followed stints at APRA and RSA Insurance in the UK. Last month the trustee announced former Mutual Trust chief ...