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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
Australian stocks are giving up many of the week's gains in response to a technology sector driven slide on Wall Street overnight. IG markets strategist Chris Weston said the sell-off in the US was driven by a plunge in tech stocks, which have fallen ...

Investec to sell local professional banking arm

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
Investec will offload its Australian professional banking division to Bank of Queensland for $440 million. The jettisoned professional finance division includes Investec's deposits business, and its asset finance and leasing businesses in Australia. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open sharply lower after big falls on Wall Street led by tech stocks. At 0800 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down 51 points at 5,425. The Nasdaq closed down 3.10 per cent with investors ...

FPA announces winners of research grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has announced the two winners of the inaugural Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) university research grants. A team from Griffith University and a consortium of academics from Griffith University, University ...

PROFILE: Bernie Ripoll

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
As the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) debate rages on, Shadow Financial Services and Superannuation Minister Bernie Ripoll looks back at its inception. Laura Millan A reports. At the beginning, the future of financial advice was in the hands of Bernie ...

CommInsure nabs ANZ head of insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
CommInsure has appointed former ANZ head of general and life insurance Craig Harrison as its new general manager of wholesale life. Harrison will return to the Commonwealth Bank Group after 11 years. He was formally an executive manage manager in the ...

ASIC bans former authorised representative

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
Former director and officer of CS Heritage Securities has been permanently banned from providing financial services by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC). The regulator found that Phillip Gregory Spark had engaged in misleading ...

AMP's Charter names advice award winners

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
TFC Financial's Dennis Bateman and KTA Financial Services' Troy Mickan have won national financial planning awards from AMP's Charter Financial Planning. Bateman was awarded the Gerald Lippman Perpetual Trophy and Mickan was recognised with the National ...

Dalton Nicol Reid appoints CEO from JBWere

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
Dalton Nicol Reid has appointed former JBWere executive Robert White as its new head of distribution and chief executive after the resignation of company co-founder earlier this year. In January, Harley Dalton, the co-founder of the Queensland-based ...

Premium Wealth adds QLD boutique practice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
Premium Wealth Management has added Queensland-based practice Total Solutions Group to its dealer group membership base. Total Solutions Group is the advice arm of Save on Tax accounting firm and was born to service the financial and lending needs of ...