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Surge in Australian-educated FM professionals heading OS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... popular than MBAs. Rounding out the top five universities are University of Melbourne and Monash University, both in Victoria. These leading universities were top for number of alumni working in asset management as well as number of portfolio managers ...

Significant Investor Visa changes to boost venture capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... September. Baker & McKenzie partner Bill Fuggle said the change was likely a response to NSW having lower SIV numbers than Victoria.

Countplus business acquires advice practices

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
Countplus financial planning group subsidiary Total Financial Solutions (TFS) has added two advice practices to its network and acquired a 49% interest in a third firm. A Sydney-based specialist personal insurance advice business will join TFS this ...

QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... of flux and/or heightened volatility - like the one we're getting now. This is because financial markets, they tell us Victoria, have become fearful of "world growth" (the lack of it) and "world peace" (threatened by Putin and ISIS and Ebola and perhaps... ...

AFA announces new directors

LAURA MILLAN  |  SUNDAY, 12 OCT 2014
... Wealth Advice founder Steve Crawford was appointed treasurer. State directors are Jeff Thurecht (NSW), Chris Browne (Victoria), Dianne Charman (Queensland), David Slovenic (Southern Australia), James Ford (Western Australia) and Matthew Hawkins (Tasmania). ...

Remove adviser double tax: AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  SUNDAY, 12 OCT 2014
... an exemption for financial advisers, but that was dropped following a harmonisation of the laws in NSW, Queensland and Victoria.

QIC takes stake in East West Link PPP

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
QIC has become a major investor in the East West Link Stage 1 ("EWL") public-private partnership (PPP) toll road and tunnel project in Melbourne, after a consortium led by Capella Capital won the bid. Other members of the consortium included British ...

Lifeplan appoints national BDM

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... to increased demand from financial advisers for investment bonds. Bird was most recently business development manager, Victoria and Tasmania, with Lifeplan Funds Management. Prior to that, he was advice quality manager with Colonial First State and a ...

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

Super funds launch mental-illness claims benchmark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... 4%. Interestingly, the rates of mental illness related claims in New South Wales and the ACT were around half those in Victoria and Queensland. SuperFriend had no ready explanation for why this was. SuperFriend chief executive Margo Lydon said: "The ...