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  • Industry: Financial Services, Investment Management, Insurance
  • Type: Business and industry issue
  • Date: 7/10/2011

Wealth Matters

KPMG's Wealth Matters is an analysis of topical issues in the wealth management and insurance industry in Australia.

Wealth Matters - October 2011 

Wealth Matters is KPMG's analysis of topical issues in the wealth management and insurance industry in Australia. This edition identifies the benefits of agility in organisations and how agility can be created and deployed.
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Key insights

  • 58 percent of Australian insurers surveyed indicated the extension of the insurance contract timeline does not impact them. 
  • Insurance industry waiting on the US Securities and Exchange Commission to decide later this year whether they will adopt IFRS and how that will impact the global convergence of the insurance contract project.
  • Agile wealth management organisations are more likely to outmanoeuvre and outperform less agile competitors.
  • CEOs believe the firms they lead need to be more agile if they are to remain relevant to clients and grow profitably.
  • The impact of the financial crisis combined with significant market opportunities ahead, means agility will be critically important.
 

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