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Former MetLife MD to head up TOWER investments

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2006
TOWER has appointed former MetLife managing director, Gavin Pearce, as its new chief executive officer of investments in Australia. Pearce, formerly both managing director of MetLife Insurance Australia and the former Citicorp Life Insurance business ...

Mezzanine finance conman hits Hillsong Church investors

NSW based property developer Robert John Orehek is to face trial on 30 criminal charges brought by ASIC for misappropriating money from investors most of whom were from the Hillsong Church in Castle Hill. Orehek will stand trial on three counts of fraudulent ...

Tandem in the market for flagship practices

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
Tandem Financial Advice has flagged plans to increase the number of planning practices under its Stairway program from 12 to 22 next year. The Stairway program networks Tandem's flagship practices, giving them a peer group to share best practice ideas ...

RetireInvest to focus on aged care

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
RetireInvest is deepening its presence in the aged care advice space, forming alliances to offer financial advice to prospective aged care residents. An alliance with Mackenzie Aged Care Group will see their potential residents being offered financial ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has decided not to lift interest rates following its monthly board meeting yesterday. This comes as some relief to the market and mortgagees after last month's 0.25 per cent increase to 6 per cent, the second since ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
Figures released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed that the number of dwellings approved during July increased by 8.3 per cent to reach the highest level since May 2005. The result was largely a consequence of a 13.6 per cent increase ...

Abacus Property to launch hotel fund

In the last 12 months diversified property fund manager Abacus Property Group has steadily built up hotel assets to the tune of $250 million ahead of a new hospitality fund to be launched later this year. "We are just finalising the structure of that ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
The Westpac-Melbourne Institute's Leading Index rose by 1.8 points in June resulting in a year on year growth rate of 5.3 per cent, the highest monthly reading since March 2004. The index measures four components of future activity in the approvals ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
Following on from his comments on the need for discussions about the future of the oil industry at the forthcoming November Group of 20(G20) meeting to be held in Melbourne, Treasurer Peter Costello has added that there needs to be a widening of the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2006
Treasurer Costello has given notice that at the forthcoming November Group of 20 (G20) meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors in Melbourne there will be fertile discussion about the oil market and the need for a stronger institutional ...