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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
... investment income, at 8.5% per annum, compared to an average of 2.3% over the past decade for other households. KPMG Australia chief economist Brendan Rynne said: "While it is perhaps understandable that the poorest members of our society want to diversify ...

New social bond advocates gender equality

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... 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%, with women ...

Regal FM appoints CEO from Challenger

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
... financial markets, head of business performance and group controller at Westpac. O'Connor also held senior roles at KPMG Australia, including national financial services manager. His appointment as chief executive follows Regal being named Australia's ...

Fix super for indigenous Australians: KPMG

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
... is economic participation and commercial enterprise that will lead to better outcomes for indigenous Australia," KPMG Australia chairman Peter Nash said. "The imperative to drive economic growth is central to our national interest debates, but indigenous ...

Executive reshuffle at KPMG

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
KPMG Australia is appointing a new chief information officer with its outgoing CIO moving in to the newly-created role of chief digital officer. Joining KPMG as its new chief information officer is Craig Wishart. He replaces Anthony Stevens, who now ...

Diversity among ASX companies slowly improves

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... directors of Australia's top 200 companies are female, an increase of 4% from 2013, according to new research by KPMG Australia for the ASX Education and Research Program. The KPGM report, which began in 2012, covers compliance with the ASX Corporate ...

MetLife makes two senior hires

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
... manager, innovation and a head of Melbourne office. New innovation manager Brenton Charnley joins Metlife from KPMG Australia, where he held the same role. He has held several other management and consulting roles with KPMG, and was also the founder ...

FPA hires professional standards, advocacy manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... strengthen its policy team. Benjamin Marshan was previously associate director of wealth management advisory at KPMG Australia for over a year. Before that, he worked at StatePlus (previously State Super Financial Services) for over four years as manager ...

KPMG pinpoints stagnant insurance industry

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... to target new customer-bases with existing insurance products, rather than developing new products. According to KPMG Australia head of insurance Martin Blake, "Rapid innovation has created significant challenges for insurers with 48% saying that their ...