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Sydney house prices up 5-times national average

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Reinforcing concerns over rising Sydney property prices, the ABS latest house price index reveals the harbour city's home prices to be rising more than 5-times faster than other capitals. In the 12 months to March 2015 the ABS reported Sydney prices ...

ISA appoints retirement policy adviser

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Industry Super Australia has appointed a specialist retirement policy adviser. Phil Gallagher is a statistician and policy modeller specialising in retirement incomes and population ageing. He has overseen quantitative analysis of Commonwealth social ...

Is content king for super funds?

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Publishing is a daily mainstream activity for superannuation funds yet it requires a different set of rules and skills than pure fund management to engage the public sphere. Equipsuper strategic marketing and communications executive officer, Geoff ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
The biggest industry moves this week are AMP's financial planning director departing after 41 years at the company and BT Financial Group hiring a new head of general insurance. Financial planning director to leave AMP - Steve Helmich will leave AMP ...

Future Fund and AustralianSuper settle court case

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
The legal battle between two of Australia's funds management giants has ended with a multi-million dollar settlement. The Future Fund will pay AustralianSuper $7 million which will contribute to the legal costs of the country's largest industry fund ...

Prime Value appoints distribution head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
Boutique fund manager Prime Value has appointed a new head of retail distribution. David Glascott joins Prime Value from Investors Mutual, where he was state manager for Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia. He has also held positions at NAB, Macquarie ...

Australian Unity completes capital raising for new fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
Australian Unity has announced it has completed its capital raising for a new retirement village development fund. The first development of the new fund will be a $65 million nine-level retirement complex in Melbourne. The building will comprise 91 ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open flat following an anemic lead from the US. At 0644 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up three points at 5,465. Wall Street stocks finished little-changed as a the General Electric ...

PROFILE: IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher's trajectory has awarded him the labels of serial acquirer and M&A veteran. He has been behind the takeover of 30 companies in the last decade alone. But Kelaher's career in financial services started far away from ...

J.P.Morgan makes Australian appointment amid global restructure

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
J.P.Morgan Asset Management has appointed a key account manager for Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. Business development manager Joseph Tobias will join the funds business as key account manager to strengthen the firm's presence ...