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Australia facing largest ever GDP fall

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... Australia's history. "At $50 billion, this is a loss equivalent to the total combined quarterly production of South Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the ACT," Frydenberg said. "Treasury is forecasting the unemployment rate to reach around ...

VIC, TAS lead Australia: CommSec

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Victoria remains Australia's strongest performing economy, but it now shares top spot with Tasmania, according to the latest CommSec State of the States report. The latest CommSec economic rankings revealed how the state and territory economies were ...

Industry fund appoints union leader

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
An industry superannuation fund has added the secretary of a public sector union to its board of directors. Community and Public Sector Union secretary Tom Lynch has been appointed to the board of $10 billion Tasmanian industry super fund Tasplan. The ...

Desktop Broker hires senior sales exec

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... Carr will oversee Desktop Broker's new adviser support model in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. He was most recently a business development manager at Xplore Wealth. Prior to that he spent nine years as a business development ...

Coronavirus no match for Future Fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
Future Fund chief investment officer Raphael Arndt is confident Australia's sovereign wealth fund can handle the impacts of the coronavirus outbreak, thanks to its diversification. Appearing before the Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation ...

Consumers trust Google over advisers: NobleOak

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... conscious than men (45%), while people from NSW were the most price conscious at 50%. The least price conscious states were Tasmania and ACT. Interestingly, 13% of those surveyed did not believe in the value of life insurance cover. "These results indicate ...

Former Securitor manager joins Paragem

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... financial services to the role, nine of which he spent at Securitor managing a number of states including SA, WA, VIC and Tasmania," it said. Kouimanis was also a member of the Securitor leadership team, where he helped grow a strong community of advice ...

Perpetual head jumps for greener pastures

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... A Perpetual general manager has packed his bags, departing the financial services firm for a simpler life in Hobart, Tasmania. Perpetual general manager of corporate finance and investor relations, Andrew Ehlich, resigned last month after a 13-year tenure ...

Industry fund ups fees ahead of merger

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... 300,000 members. The combined fund's corporate and trustee functions will be based in Canberra, with satellite offices in Tasmania and other locations. MTAA Super's administration services will be moved in-house to Tasplan's Hobart facilities. The merger ...

Wealth manager launches new platform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2019
A Tasmania-based wealth manager has announced the launch of a new managed fund platform and appointed a custodian. MyState's wealth management business, TPT Wealth, has launched a new platform to provide managed fund investors with national digital ...