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Future Fund fills head of infra vacancy

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
The Future Fund has filled the head of infrastructure and timberland role left vacant by Dr Raphael Arndt when he was made chief investment officer in September 2014. Following a global search process, Wendy Norris has been promoted from within the ...

FSC supports longer threshold for unclaimed life insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
Financial Services Council chief executive Sally Loane has applauded the Treasury's decision to extend the unclaimed life insurance threshold back to seven years. Since 2012, bank accounts and life insurance policies could be inactive for three years ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
"Word has finished searching the selection. The search item was not found. Do you want to search the remainder of the document?" Yes please, sir. Nah, it still couldn't find "patient" - or "patience" - in the Fed's monetary policy statement (that I ...

"Patient" is the (key)word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
Say whaaa? Wall Street up - big time (well, relatively) - on the same night that crude oil prices went for another leg down. What ever happened to the headlines of not so long ago that went, "US equities sell off as oil prices tumbles" or something ...

PROFILE: NAB head of wealth Andrew Hagger

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
While the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, National Australia Bank (NAB) head of wealth Andrew Hagger preferred to take the long way. His journey from the quiet suburb of Adelaide Hills to Melbourne CBD stretched through over ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
Weak commodity prices and big losses on Wall Street have dragged the Australian share market lower. Fears of a US rate rise in June have hurt the US and Australian equity markets and a stronger US dollar is weakening commodity prices, CMC Markets chief ...

ASIC bans Charterhill director from financial services

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
Charterhill Group founder and director George Nowak has been banned by ASIC from practicing financial services until 3 July 2017. The grounds for the ban are that Nowak is an undischarged bankrupt, having applied for personal bankruptcy in July 2014. ...

NAB to face Senate grilling over advice scandal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
National Australia Bank (NAB) head of wealth Andrew Hagger will face tough questioning from the Senate Economics Committee at a hearing in Melbourne this afternoon. "The reason why we called this hearing is because we want to get to the bottom of this ...

ECT reforms pass Senate

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
The Parliament has passed the latest amendments to the superannuation excess contribution tax (ECT), implementing the final piece of legislation to reform the unpopular tax, says Taxpayers Australia Limited. "The rationale for ECT made sense at the ...

Millionaire investors swell in 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
The number of investors holding $1 million or more has experienced the largest growth in the past five years, Investment Trends' latest report revealed. Australia minted 43,500 new millionaires over 2014 and the high net worth (HNW) investor population ...