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KPMG names new national chair

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
A senior audit partner and governance specialist is being promoted as KPMG Australia's new national chair. Stepping into the role on 1 September 2017, Alison Kitchen will be KPMG Australia's first woman chair. She will also be the first woman to chair ...

Negative gearing exposing Australia's poor: KPMG

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
KPMG warns any increase in Australia's historically low interest rates would cause serious economic problems and affect households across the entire financial spectrum, from rich to poor. The industry consultant said one of its biggest concerns is that ...

Gender diversity drives Australia's mid-market companies

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
The latest KPMG report shows Australian mid-market companies with gender diversity are outperforming peers. The KMPG Enterprise 2017 ASX 300+, which analysed 626 Australian entities and 38 foreign companies listed in Australia, found that companies ...

Gen Y prefers liquid investments: KPMG

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... favour short-term investments with only 12% investing in products such as managed funds and ETFs. This is a key finding of KPMG's Banking on the Future 2017 report which shows Gen Y prefers liquid investments that can easily be converted to back up funds ...

New social bond advocates gender equality

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... 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 at 54% ...

Aussie fintech maintains strength

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
Australian fintech investment in 2016 remained strong despite a 47.2% global slide in fintech investment, according to KPMG International's The Pulse of Fintech report. Total fintech investment in Australia reached $626 million across 25 deals in 2016 ...

Blue Sky expands board with new directors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
... managing director and chief of investment for Schroders in Australia. Blue Sky has also welcomed former Queensland chairman for KPMG, Philip Hennessy. Hennessy already serves on the board of the Blue Sky Alternatives Access Fund, though will retire from ...

KPMG director becomes fintech CFO

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
A director at KPMG took on a new role as chief financial officer for a fintech specialising in digital customer acquisition. Having previously held a senior position in KPMG's deal advisory division, Matt Lewis has now joined Avoka, where he will report ...

New CFO for Kinetic Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... accounting roles with State Street, NAB and Mercer before switching to managed investments and superannuation in a role with KPMG. Most recently Pizzichetta was chief financial officer at VFMC for more than five years, prior to which he was head of finance ...

Technological advancement puts infrastructure at risk: KPMG

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
... at risk of being obsolete before the end of anticipated lifecycles. In its Emerging Trends in Infrastructure 2017 report, KPMG says infrastructure planners and investors will struggle with the longer-term challenge of an ever-changing technology environment ...