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Super-backed specialist centre opens in Hobart

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... A $19 million investment from an industry super fund has helped an innovative dementia care village open its doors in Tasmania. In development with HESTA, not-for-profit aged care provider Glenview and Social Ventures Australia (SVA), the Korongee Village ...

Housing affordability improves

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... 30.4%, 27.9%, 21.2%, 20.2% in Queensland, South Australia, the ACT, and the Northern Territory respectively. In Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia housing affordability declined, with buyers needing to dedicate a further 2.9%, 0.4% and 0.2% of ...

Count Financial makes growth-focused hire

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... the last four years with Affinia Financial Advisers as a key account manager responsible for the states of Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and South Australia. Prior to this he worked at CBA as a practice development manager, previously having ...

Industry flocks to JobKeeper handouts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... JobKeeper payments for their employees. This is followed by 1342 in Western Australia, 888 in South Australia, 131 in Tasmania, 140 in ACT and 44 in Northern Territory. While the total of 13,493 applications from the financial sector sounds high, it ...

Practice valuations avoid COVID-19 hit

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... people that are really going to struggle, are poor, old, regional and rural Australia." Perhaps surprisingly, Perth and Tasmania have emerged as hotspots for those looking to pick up or sell an advice practice at the moment. "We're very busy at the ...

Australia facing largest ever GDP fall

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... Australia's history. "At $50 billion, this is a loss equivalent to the total combined quarterly production of South Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the ACT," Frydenberg said. "Treasury is forecasting the unemployment rate to reach around ...

VIC, TAS lead Australia: CommSec

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Victoria remains Australia's strongest performing economy, but it now shares top spot with Tasmania, according to the latest CommSec State of the States report. The latest CommSec economic rankings revealed how the state and territory economies were ...

Industry fund appoints union leader

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
An industry superannuation fund has added the secretary of a public sector union to its board of directors. Community and Public Sector Union secretary Tom Lynch has been appointed to the board of $10 billion Tasmanian industry super fund Tasplan. The ...

Desktop Broker hires senior sales exec

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... Carr will oversee Desktop Broker's new adviser support model in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. He was most recently a business development manager at Xplore Wealth. Prior to that he spent nine years as a business development ...

Coronavirus no match for Future Fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
Future Fund chief investment officer Raphael Arndt is confident Australia's sovereign wealth fund can handle the impacts of the coronavirus outbreak, thanks to its diversification. Appearing before the Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation ...