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Suncorp names new chief executive

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... chief executive has been appointed following the announcement that incumbent Patrick Snowball will leave the company in October. Upon Snowball's departure, GPT chief executive and managing director Michael Cameron will assume his position. In addition ...

Media Super doubles investment menu

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... available through its MDI option. The expanded Media Super menu range of diversified and sector options was launched last October while the life cycle PDS was issued only last month. In a statement issued at the time, Media Super said: "The new range ...

IMF predicts drop in foreign earnings

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... non-resource activity with Australia's growth gradually rising between 2015-16 to about 3%. This was predicted in the IMF's October 2014 World Economic Outlook which also said lower commodity prices and resource related investment will be further offset ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... $13.73. The head of property group GPT Michael Cameron will take over the reins at Suncorp when Patrick Snowball leaves in October. Toll road operator Transurban was up four cents at $9.84 after it posted a healthy lift in third quarter revenues.

Adviser wins Masters course

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... Services; Nga Vu of Kearney Financial Planning; and Werner Watzdorf of McLeod Watzdorf Financial Planning. Launched in October 2013, the Stella Network aims to enrich, develop and connect women in financial planning. To date, the network has focused ...

Sovereign wealth funds growing despite falling commodity prices

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... commonly real estate and infrastructure. As a result, overall assets under management increased from $5.38 trillion in October 2013 to $6.31 trillion in March 2015. According to Preqin's research, the largest sovereign wealth funds are Norway's Government ...

ETF investor numbers growing rapidly

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... 768 advisers on their experiences and usage of ETFs, found investor numbers had increased to 146,000 in the 12 months to October 2014. This is up from 103,000 recorded in the previous year and is the fastest growth seen in the last four years. BetaShares ...

Go south young (China) man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... of 16,647.54 points on 8 August 1997 - a month and a bit after the official handover - before losing as much as 46% by October as the Thailand's currency crisis engulfed more and more Asian nations. That is now but a distant memory and instead of dragging ...

Bland retires from IRESS

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... chief financial officer. It follows the retirement of previous chief financial officer, Stu Bland, who leaves IRESS from October 2015. IRESS chief executive, Andrew Walsh, said Bland "has made an important contribution to the business over his career." ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... allow me to display a chart. For then, I can show when the Shanghai composite index started to take-off - that was in October last year, the month the Fed completed its taper and the month (24 October) when China's president Xi Jinping's Asian Infrastructure ...