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KNM appoints wealth head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
... representatives," Burke said. According to Kevin Hardwick, managing director at KNM Services, the company has six offices in Cairns and Brisbane and although traditionally focussed its operations in insurance is seeking to extend its service. "The board ...

Cairns planner jailed for fraud

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
A Cairns financial adviser has been sentenced to eight years jail after pleading guilty to 14 fraud charges involving almost $1 million of client money. The Cairns District Court sentenced the man, Piet Cornelius Walters, on October 30, after he pleaded ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2007
... Japan, India, Brazil and the EU countries will meet in New Delhi India to begin trade talks again. On April 16 the so-called Cairns Group will meet in Pakistan to further discuss trade issues following their Australian meeting last year. Moreover, the ...

Abacus beds down hotel fund

NICK OLIVER  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2007
... portfolio of Novotel Twin Waters on the Sunshine Coast QLD, Chateau on the Park in Christchurch and Rydges Trade Winds Cairns, will produce stable operating profits and provide asset value growth potential. "Additional benefits for security holders include ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2006
... key countries to accede to opening up their agricultural markets more to March of next year following frictions at the Cairns round of 18 of those countries. While the US has offered to cut farm subsidies from US$48 billion to US$22 billion Australia ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2006
At the Cairns group of 18 agricultural exporting countries, Argentina and Brazil have joined Australia in calling for developing countries to reduce agricultural trade protection. Prime Minister John Howard said last night that whilst Australia's subsidies ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
... in 1820 when at 43 per cent of estimated world GDP it started to decline. A meeting of the 18 countries involved in the Cairns group of 18 agricultural exporting countries has reiterated its call for a freer market for agricultural goods. The group of ...

AVCAL calling for council members

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2006
... with elected members to be announced at the Annual General Meeting in Sydney a month after the annual AVCAL conference in Cairns. AVCAL was established in 1992 as a forum for venture capital and private equity participants to meet, pursue issues of common ...

Abacus Property to launch hotel fund

... includes the Novotel Twin Waters Resort on the Sunshine Coast, the Carlton Hotel in Auckland and Tradewinds Esplanade Hotel in Cairns. Abacus started ten years ago as a single asset property syndicate but has over time evolved to become a diversified ...

Cyclones and underinsurance strike in North Queensland

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2006
... which represents most sugar cane farmers in Queensland, said there was extensive crop damage in the growing region between Cairns and Tully. Mullins said this region produced between 20 per cent and 25 per cent of the sugar output of Queensland. Mullins ...