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Colonial reveals Australia's huge untapped workforce

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
... savings as delaying drawing down on super savings and maintaining contributions would have a powerful multiplier effect." KPMG research has shown that men aged 45 years old were expected to retire at age 65.2 years and women at 64.3 years old, however ...

Systemic disadvantages create retirement insecurity: HESTA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022
... Australian companies and industry peak bodies have also shown public support of the UNDRIP principles. Evidently, in 2020, KPMG, the University of Technology Sydney and the Global Compact Network Australia united to publish a business guide on UNDRIP ...

Lifespan partners with OpenInvest to launch advice solution

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2022
... those whose circumstances are such that they do not need to go through the more expensive personal advice process." A 2021 KPMG research paper ' Cost profile of Australia's Financial Advice Industry ' found that the cost of advice and consumer perception ...

A mixed year for super: KPMG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2022
The annual KPMG Super Insights report has called 2020 and 2021 a challenging period for the superannuation sector, the impact of which will be felt for some time to come. Over 2020/21 investment markets and the super sector rebounded from the initial ...

Super funds to reach $1tn by 2040: KPMG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2022
A recently released KPMG Super Insights report shows Australia could have at least two super funds with over $1 trillion in assets in the next 20 years. KPMG insights suggest AustralianSuper and the Australian Retirement Trust (ART) will dominate the ...

Millennial super fund fails to GROW

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2022
... In its short five years, GROW Super saw backing from Citigroup and IOOF, hired high profile executives from the likes of KPMG and Qantas Super, and pivoted into administration and blockchain technology. Around the time of its launch, it was even endorsed ...

Parliamentary committee hears KPMG assumed 'conflicting engagements knowingly'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2022
... inquired and reported on the Transport Asset Holding Entity (TAHE) has uncovered several damaging findings, including that KPMG engagements were 'rife with conflict'. The TAHE has been the subject of serious accounting and safety concerns, but its compounding ...

Frontier appoints head of strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022
... strategy at fintech Data Action, and prior to that PwC, and Asialink Business. She was previously based in Singapore working for KPMG, Bloomberg, and Thomson Reuters. "Megan's Asian strategy experience, her experience in providing strategic direction ...

Startup launches risk retention option

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2022
... financial advisers in a bid to maintain the client relationship and help them "deliver on their best interest obligations". KPMG estimates that the average premium increase per policy for risk products in the year to 31 December 2021 was 12% per annum ...

KPMG family business consultants launch advisory firm

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
KPMG alumni Michelle De Lucia, Dominic Pelligana and Andrew Muscara have launched L ineage Group, a new Australian advisory firm specialising in working with successful business families. Based in Melbourne, the firm specialises in first to fifth-generation ...