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Funds management

Almost 100% of companies in the ASX 100 are linking their business activities to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, according to a report by KPMG....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has clarified that the regulator only paid for tax advice to its stood-aside chairman, James Shipton, but can’t say w...

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Life/Risk

New research from KPMG has confirmed the degree to which COVID-19 impacted the Australian life insurance industry already on the back foot and facing revenue and profitab...

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People & Products

Former ANZ chief financial officer, wealth, Michael Rowland has been appointed as Westpac CFO, commencing later in the year....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers may emerge as one of the few winners from the COVID-19 pandemic but they will have to play their cards right, according to new research from KPMG....

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Life/Risk

New data analysed by KPMG has confirmed insurers have paid out double the number of disability claims for policies sold through financial advisers....

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Policy & Regulation

The Tax Practitioners Board has terminated the registration of former KPMG partner, Christopher Allenby....

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Financial planning

New analysis from KPMG has confirmed the environment is ripe for industry superannuation funds to fill the advice gap left by the exit of the major banks but there is lit...

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People & Products

Phil Creswell has been appointed head of professional standards by Count Financial....

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People & Products

Hoa Bui has been appointed president of the Actuaries Institute for 2020....

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Life/Risk

The Actuaries Institute has produced a report to underpin its call for a radical overhaul of disability income insurance in Australia which it claims has become highly un...

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Superannuation

While the superannuation system is not designed to discriminate against women, it exacerbates the inequality, according to KPMG....

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Life/Risk

Breast cancer was the most common life insurance cancer claim, double the rate of prostate cancer which was the second most common, according to data....

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Life/Risk

Life insurers are struggling to sustain profitability in the face of challenging markets and tighter regulation with the Life Insurance Framework also playing a part....

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Superannuation

Former Colonial First State executive director, Linda Elkins may have left the company and become a partner at KPMG but she has been named in a class action filing....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

2 weeks ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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