Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 101 - 110 of 305 results for "South Australia 16.7 %"

AFA Foundation headed for milestone

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
The AFA Foundation is heading towards an enormous milestone, anticipating $2 million donations in 2019. The AFA Foundation may well reach over $2 million in donations this year, with much of it donated by the association's adviser members, AFA Foundation ...

Manager vacancy at $50m fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
A $50 million fund set up by the South Australian government has started the search for a new investment manager to replace a Blue Sky subsidiary. The SA Venture Capital Fund (SAVCF) appointed Blue Sky Venture Capital in 2017 as its manager. It is now ...

PPS Mutual bolsters leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
Specialist insurer PPS Mutual announced two senior appointments from ANZ Wealth and Asteron Life. Steve Salter has been appointed state manager for Western Australia and South Australia and David Lowe steps into a senior underwriter position. Salter ...

Super working in favour of all members

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... ($142,412) and New South Wales ($133,643) have balances higher than the national average of $132,646. Members living South Australia ($131,914), Tasmania ($126,348), Queensland ($123,636), Western Australia ($119,980) and the Northern Territory ($95,170) ...

NEOS grows sales teams

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
NEOS Life has established its footprint in the South Australian market with two new hires. Andrew Bridgland joined NEOS in July as a business development manager, representing South Australia and Northern Territory. He was most recently at Asteron ...

Paradice hires from Pengana

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
Paradice Investment Management has added to its distribution team with a hire from Pengana Capital, as it launches a new fund. Dan McAleer is Paradice's new distribution manager based in Melbourne. He has 12 years of experience and was in a similar ...

Finnies recognise wealth management disruptors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
Several fintechs disrupting the wealth management industry have made the shortlist of FinTech Australia's third annual Finnie Awards. Spaceship, Raiz and Roll-it Super were named finalists in the Excellence in Wealth Management category. They join the ...

Netwealth opens new office, grows team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2019
Netwealth is opening a new office and expanding its national distribution team with the addition of a former BT Financial Group senior sales manager. The new office will be in Adelaide and manned by Andrew Dwyer, its newly-appointed senior distribution ...

Study unveils state with largest superannuation gender gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... with $132,000. The variances across the states are: Victoria (31%), Queensland (34%), New South Wales (26%), South Australia (33%), Tasmania (33%), ACT (20%) and Northern Territory (16%). To help narrow the gap, the AIST and WIS suggest abolishing the ...

Adelaide to get cash-to-crypto trial

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
A global cryptocurrency exchange announced it is testing out a new way to buy bitcoin with cash, choosing Adelaide for the experiment. Binance, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, announced the launch of Binance Lite Australia. The ...