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Sydney house prices up 5-times national average

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Reinforcing concerns over rising Sydney property prices, the ABS latest house price index reveals the harbour city's home prices to be rising more than 5-times faster than other capitals. In the 12 months to March 2015 the ABS reported Sydney prices ...

Kaplan launches online insurance courses

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Kaplan Professional has launched seven online insurance courses. The courses are designed for both existing insurance professionals and those looking to enter the industry, and they cover the following qualifications: Certificate IV in Life Insurance ...

Cbus hires equities investment specialist

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Cbus has appointed a former Nomura Asset Management senior portfolio manager to the role of equities investment specialist. Kiran Singh will start on the role with Cbus on 27 July and he will relocate to Australia from Singapore, where he worked for ...

Australians ill prepared for financial future

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Australians are potentially being complacent about their finances with little or no plans in place now and for the future, according to the latest survey data from CUA. More than half of the 1,061 Australians surveyed said they had no financial plans ...

FEATURE: The infrastructure love story

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Among the 81 findings in the Australian Infrastructure Audit Report released in April, was a statement that said over recent years, rates of public and private investment in infrastructure have been higher than the long-term average. Yet the audit goes ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
The biggest industry moves this week are AMP's financial planning director departing after 41 years at the company and BT Financial Group hiring a new head of general insurance. Financial planning director to leave AMP - Steve Helmich will leave AMP ...

Nominations open for AFA Adviser of the Year Award

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
Nominations for this year's Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Adviser of the Year Award are now open. Advisers can nominate themselves, or may be nominated by their peers, their licensee or PDM/BDM. On launching the award, now into its 13th year ...

Federation Centres to rebrand as Vicinity Centres

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
Federation Centres has announced that it intends to rebrand as Vicinity Centres following securityholder approval. Federation Limited is the listed company within the FDC stapled group. The rebrand follows the merger between the Federation Centres and ...

BT pays fines for misleading super statements

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
Australia's corporate watchdog said BT Funds Management recently paid more than $20,000 in fines. An Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) statement said BT paid two infringement notices for misleading statements contained in the online ...

Platform FUM up $660bn

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
The total investment platform market has risen 15.5% to $662.8 billion in the 12 months to March, the latest figures from Plan For Life show. Inflows were slightly down on last year - $145.9 billion versus $149.3 billion in 2014 - while outflows also ...