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Tax incentives for early stage investors too narrow: KPMG

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
KPMG believes Treasury's policy consultation on tax incentives for early stage investors is unnecessarily restricted and argues unit trusts should also be eligible for the incentives. The firm's submission also raises concerns that investment into innovation ...

Cbus hires infrastructure manager

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
Cbus has hired a new infrastructure manager to its investment strategy team from KPMG. Diana Callebaut joined the $32 billion construction industry super fund's investment strategy team in the newly created role of manager, infrastructure on February ...

KPMG boosts wealth management with industry fund veterans

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
KPMG has hired two directors for its wealth management and superannuation advisory business, both having held senior roles in the industry fund sector. David Bardsley joins KPMG from AustralianSuper, where he headed up the super fund's investment program. ...

BT appoints insurance GM

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... officer. She was also chief financial officer at Wesfarmers General Insurance, head of claims at IAG and a senior manager at KPMG. At BT, she will head up the both the company's general and life insurance business lines. "BT has been very progressive ...

Australia carbon reporting quality on the rise

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... Australian companies is higher on average than those in Europe, the Americas and relative to Asia-Pacific neighbours, according to KPMG research. The KPMG Corporate Responsibility Reporting Survey 2015 identified the rate of carbon reporting across 4,500 ...

Kardinia appoints analyst from Telstra Super

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... also held roles at the Myer Family Company, as a portfolio manager and Australian equities analyst; Goldman Sachs/JBWere and KPMG. Portfolio manager Kristiaan Rehder said that Larke "brings with him a wealth of experience in both stock analysis and portfolio ...

AMP names directors to lead revamped SMSF business

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... and five directors, to continue with the strategy to grow the scale of the business. Richard Grellman, who has worked for KPMG for more than 30 years as well as in various non-executive director roles for public companies, including Crowe Horwarth, has ...

FSC calls for 22% company tax

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... reverse Australia's collapsing competitiveness and flat productivity." Modelling commissioned by the FSC and conducted by KPMG shows that these cuts can be fully funded by increasing the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to 15% and will at the same time offer ...

EQT creates new division, appoints head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... business. EQT's Superannuation Trustee Office will become Superannuation & Portfolio Services (SPS), and will be led by current KPMG director, wealth advisory Mark Blair. The new division continues EQT's long history of providing superannuation fund ...

China emerging as fintech leader

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
China is taking a leading presence in the fintech sector, according to KPMG research. In partnership with H2 Ventures, KPMG released the Fintech 100 report, which lists the top 50 established "leaders" in the sector along with 50 emerging companies. ...