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LGS appoints new chair

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2013
Local Government Super (LGS) has appointed a former Cowra Shire Council mayor as its new chair. Bruce Millar will replace John Beacroft following his two-year term as chair. Millar is a director and former chair of StateCover Mutual Limited and has ...

Good US housing news gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
Global economic eyes were on US jobs figures late last week but the real indicator concentrating the minds of investment strategist continues to be US housing prices. The good news is that a range of economic figures over the past few months have reinforced ...

La Trobe mortgage fund scoops industry award

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
La Trobe Financial's Pooled Mortgages Option (PMO) has won the Money Magazine Gold Award for the Best Mortgage Fund in Australia for the fourth consecutive year. Chris Andrews, head of funds management at La Trobe Financial said: "This is another milestone ...

LGS wins Best Green Super Fund Award

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
Industry leader in responsible investment, Local Government Super (LGS) took home the Best Green Super Fund for 2013 at this year's Money Magazine 'Best of the Best' awards. Around half ($3.3 billion) of the Fund's total assets are in responsible investment ...

Financial advisers recognised for social media strategy

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
Financial adviser Charles Badenach from Shadforth Financial Group won this year's Financial Standard Social Media Influence, Leadership + Excellence (SMILEYS) Scholarship, at an award ceremony yesterday. Other awards winners included Aaron Zelman who ...

Frontier Advisors makes four new hires

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
Frontier Advisors has made four new hires to its Melbourne office including Fraser Murray as a senior consultant to head up its equities research team. Murray joins from Ibbotson Associates, where he held the role as head of equities and property. He ...

Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
"Is QE3 enough to save America's economy?" The Economist magazine posed this question to its readers over the weekend. So far, the nays have it - 78% of them think QE won't cut it - because according to those who commented: even Bernanke admitted that ...

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012

Macquarie invests in mobile apps for advisers/brokers

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
Macquarie is expanding access to its insights and information by further investing in range of mobile applications for its advisers and mortgage brokers. Following the successful launch of four mobile applications during the past year, Macquarie's long-running ...

No change - no mas, no less

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
If you have something better to do today do that, rather than expending your time reading what took place in financial markets overnight. It was more of the same -- the exact same suspenseful, seemingly endless wait for policymakers to deliver what ...