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Retail funds drive down admin fees: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
... funds have finally become competitive with industry funds after bringing down their administration fees, a new analysis by KPMG shows. KPMG found that admin fees for MySuper products have come down from 0.33% to 0.26% based on a $50,000 balance. With ...

Employees will quit on full return-to-office orders: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
... emphasis on professional life, but it now seems some people have the mindset work is interrupting their personal life." A KPMG report released last year reveals that 64% of global chief executives predict the workforce will fully return to the office ...

The rising role and risks of generative AI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... adoption, such as Microsoft's investment in OpenAI, the public nevertheless remains sceptical about AI's benefits. A survey by KPMG Australia and the University of Queensland, involving 17,000 people across 17 countries, found that Australians are among ...

Rainmaker Information names research head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024
... Colonial First State's technical team, and as a financial adviser at Commonwealth Private Bank. He also has experience at KPMG and Aon Consulting. In welcoming Ramrakha, Rainmaker Information managing director Christopher Page said: "I first got to know ...

Poor investment governance costly for asset owners, members: KPMG, Frontier

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
... estimate that poor investment governance could increase portfolio costs by 1% or more annually, according to a joint report by KPMG and Frontier Advisors. The report, which surveyed 22 asset owners in the local investment industry representing $800 billion ...

Fund managers nervously await 'golden visa' reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... of SIV-compliant products. Wealth management firms such as Ord Minnett have a dedicated unit servicing this client base. KPMG Asia Pacific immigration leader Mark Wright told Financial Standard that the visa technically has not been cancelled. "It's ...

Job flexibility, labour market delay retirement age

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
Job flexibility and a tight labour market are keeping more Australians at work, research from KPMG finds, giving rise to a delay in their retirement. The analysis found that men are retiring at 66.2 years old, from 63.3 years old two decades ago, while ...

Court delays DASS class action settlement approval

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2024
... Hill began working at E&P on 2015 as group financial controller and before that worked in finance and accounting roles at KPMG Australia and Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe. He will be replaced by Robert Darwell, who is currently director of corporate ...

AustralianSuper hires data strategy lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2024
... nation's largest fund is John Carver, appointed senior business planning lead within the strategy team. Previous roles include KPMG and Investment Trends, where he specialised in operations, strategy development and regulatory response projects for ...

Two more executives leave Morningstar

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... Treasury. Walsh, a one-time head of local research, has a background spanning Towers Perrin, Macquarie Financial Services, KPMG and Gould Ralph & Company. He worked as an asset consultant with Towers Perrin, responsible for delivering asset consulting ...