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Affinia hires regional business consultants

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
TAL-backed Affinia Financial Advisers has appointed one business consultant for Victoria and Tasmania, and one for Western Australia and South Australia. Nadia Docker will be in charge of Victoria and Tasmania, while Natalie Pegg will look after Western ...

AMP axes regional head of advice roles

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
The ongoing restructure at AMP has resulted in at least two regional heads of financial planning leaving the group. AMP head of financial planning in Queensland and North New South Wales Bill Justo left as part of the streamlining of the group's top ...

Westpac appoints national Agribusiness GM

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... Westpac for the past 25 years and has been acting in the post since Jennings' retirement. Hannan most recently run the regional, commercial and agribusiness operations in New South Wales and regional commercial business in Queensland for Westpac's retail ...

AIA Australia appoints CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... the role of AIA Group chief executive officer of group corporate solutions. Mu and Crewe will both report to AIA Group regional chief executive officer Gordon Watson. "During Peter's tenure as CEO, AIA Australia has experienced significant growth and ...

Women to feel pain of scrapped LISC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
Women and regional Australians will be the worst affected by the government's plan to scrap the Low Income Superannuation Contribution (LISC) scheme, according to Industry Super Australia (ISA). Using figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Mother's Day Classic raises $4.5m for breast cancer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... million since the campaign first ran in 1998. Mother's Day Classic National Chair Louise Davidson gave particular thanks to regional fundraisers, saying 35 new locations hosted fun runs this year. "Regional events varied from large major metropolitan ...

Wanted: $20bn electricity investor for NSW

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... Nationals MPs and MLAs were persuaded to support the proposal in return for the state's primary electricity supplier to regional NSW, Essential Energy, not being part of the deal. However, the deal is convoluted as the government is not proposing an ...

UBS launches farmland investment service

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... we are well equipped to provide Australian farmers with an equity solution that recognises the issues facing rural and regional Australia. This includes enabling farmers to achieve further farmland productivity growth and greater economies of scale," ...

Super sector eyes Qld ports and generators

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... these existing ports and their supply chains will promote significant economic growth for the benefit of the local and regional economies and the communities they serve." The Queensland government's announcement comes after the recent 98-year lease of ...

150,000 candidates cramming for CFA exams

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
Almost 150,000 candidates from 179 countries are gearing up to sit six hours of examinations for their Level I, II and III CFA qualifications on Saturday. The number of exam registrations for this year's December 2013 to June 2014 exam cycle exceeds ...