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SA posts record planner growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
The number of financial planners recruited in South Australia have risen over the past year eclipsing the growth rate in other states, according to eJobs Financial Planning. The survey found that the number of financial planner job advertisements in ...

St George chief moves to Westpac

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
Westpac ended its extensive search for a successor to long time chief executive David Morgan when it appointed St. George Bank's highly regarded chief executive Gail Kelly to the plum role. During Kelly's tenure at St. George, the bank more than doubled ...

Market uncertainty stalls K2 float

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
Top rating fund manager K2 Asset Management has withdrawn its initial public offer (IPO) due to recent market volatility. K2 Asset Management chairman Campbell Neal said an ASX listing at this time would not meet the objectives of K2 and therefore wouldn't ...

AUI appoints state manager

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has appointed Damen Purcell as state manager in its NSW/ACT business development team. Previously Purcell was Northern Region retail manager with Ausbil Dexia Limited and has worked with Colonial First State and ING ...

LGSS expands direct property assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
NSW-based industry super fund Local Government Superannuation Scheme has acquired a $41 million Sydney CBD office tower in an effort to bolster its direct property portfolio. Located at 120 Sussex St, the nine-storey building has been renovated to include ...

ESS Super to apply UN investment principles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
Victorian-based public sector fund ESS Super has joined the ranks of mega super funds AustralianSuper, UniSuper and ARIA when it signed up to the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment. ESS Super chief executive officer David Atkin said ...

Look before you leap

... look beyond performance tables and understand the CGT implications of moving their assets, according to finance expert Michael Hutton. Hutton, a financial planning partner with HLB Mann Judd Sydney, has warned investors from switching funds as a knee ...

CommunityCPS launches charity foundation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
... service providers will support the work of the foundation," he said. Governor-General of Australia, Major-General (retired) Michael Jeffery, has agreed to become patron of the CommunityCPS charity foundation. Community marketing and sponsorships account ...

Centric snaps up lending firm

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
... bringing the total to $1.4 billion. The acquisition is the fourth in less than a month for Centric, but joint chief executive Michael Pillemer said the deal had been in the pipeline for four years - the length of time the two firms had been referring ...

Balmain and Allco expand factoring joint venture

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
... loan broker Balmain Commercial and Allco Finance Group, aim to bring scale to the fragmented market for debt factoring. Michael Holme, executive chairman at Balmain Commercial, said "The strategy is pretty simple, Balmain Commercial and Allco Finance ...