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LGIAsuper grows executive team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
Queensland local government employee super fund LGIAsuper, which opened its doors to the public earlier this year, is expanding its leadership team and searching for a new chief executive. Eleanor Noonan, who was previously LGIAsuper's head of human ...

Former adviser cops 10-year imprisonment

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
The former principal of Sherwin Financial Planners was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for fraud. Bradley Thomas Sherwin was found guilty of 25 charges following an ASIC investigation arising from of the collapse of his financial planning business ...

AZ NGA acquires Victoria practice

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
AZ Next Generation Advisory has acquired a financial planning firm established in 1983. Dunsford Financial Planning (DFP) is led by Mark Dunsford and based in Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. Part of the Now Financial Group, of which Dunsford is also ...

Australian business conditions gone gangbusters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
Say what? "Business conditions hit an all new high in October, although leading indicators suggest the possibility of some pull-back in coming months. The business conditions index jumped by an impressive 7 points in October, to +21 index points, which ...

Life insurer definitions clashing: Regulators

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
The lack of common definitions among life insurers is making it difficult for regulators to investigate claims payout ratios and is setting back attempts to standardise definitions across the industry. The joint project between APRA and ASIC, which ...

Less liquidity to lessen risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
Fresh data out of China suggests that the central government and the central bank's efforts to reduce liquidity in the system are starting to have an impact. China's M2 money supply went up by 8.8% in the year to October after rising by 9.2% in the ...

TelstraSuper names new technology executive

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
Corporate superannuation fund TelstraSuper is driving ahead with its technology and business transformation with the appointment of a new executive general manager technology. Karen Symes, who has been the chief information and innovation officer at ...

Taxing times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
It's beginning to look a lot like the Grinch will steal Christmas 2017 and investors would be happy just to get the two-front teeth in their hanged stockings. That's the feeling many an investor would get upon the reading the nasty news, exemplified ...

Former BBY adviser cops 10-year ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
A former BBY financial adviser has been banned for 10 years, while an ex-CBA adviser pleaded guilty to forging client documents, corporate regulator ASIC said. ASIC banned Perth-based Sergio Nicolo Belardo, a former authorised representative of stockbroking ...

Oil's gift to central bankers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
Only one word comes to mind when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is mentioned, and that is oil - for it has plenty of it. According to Investopedia, "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is often cited as the world's largest oil producer. The country produces 13.24% ...