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The ‘inflation genie’ is unlikely to escape as subdued inflation and wage pressure mean rates could be held at 0.1% until late 2023 according to the Reserve Bank of Austr...
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....
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...
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...
People & Products
Former ANZ chief financial officer, wealth, Michael Rowland has been appointed as Westpac CFO, commencing later in the year....
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....
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....
Policy & Regulation
The Tax Practitioners Board has terminated the registration of former KPMG partner, Christopher Allenby....
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...
People & Products
Phil Creswell has been appointed head of professional standards by Count Financial....
People & Products
Hoa Bui has been appointed president of the Actuaries Institute for 2020....
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...
Superannuation
While the superannuation system is not designed to discriminate against women, it exacerbates the inequality, according to KPMG....
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....
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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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...