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AustralianSuper consortium picks up QLD motorways for $7bn

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... toll roads. Transurban's proven operational capabilities as well as its ability to realise the asset's longer term development potential makes it the ideal investment partner," he said. "The price paid is consistent with previous toll road transaction ...

FEATURE: Re-imagining Australia's financial future

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... boss, David Murray (see break out box for the panel members) reinforced its importance to Australia's future economic development.."For example, one of the key tenets of the Wallis Report was that the Australian Government should not guarantee financial ...

SPAA launches online CPD tool

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has launched an online tool compliant with the continuing professional development (CPD) program. The CPD Compass tool is an online questionnaire available to the association's members and designed to gauge ...

World Bank issues Kangaroo Green Bond

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... Green Bond is intended to help those countries likely to be hit hardest by climate change move to a path of low-carbon development. The money goes to projects that mitigate climate change and that help countries adapt to the effects of climate change. ...

AIA Australia launches daily risk information for planners

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... data. AIA Australia chief marketing officer Tim Tez said the decision to offer Datafeeds for XPLAN was an important development for the organisation. "We work in close partnership with advisers, and their consistent feedback has been that Datafeeds for ...

Could government issue its own annuities?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... (ASFA), the Actuaries Institute, UniSuper and Challenger - focused on the need to remove regulatory impediments to the development of products such as deferred lifetime annuities. ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos, for example, said: "Creating a more ...

T. Rowe Price appoints former Ashmore exec

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... senior institutional sales and relationship manager for Australia and New Zealand. Frazer previously held business development roles in emerging markets manager Ashmore, Western Asset Management and Wellington Management. Prior to that he held positions ...

PIS adds consultants amid Centrepoint capital raising

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... and this will be key as we move into our growth phase," Rogan said. "Ryan will focus on recruitment, growth and the development of our advisers' practices including consulting to the network on new initiatives." Centrepoint is PIS' parent company.

EQT to buy ANZ Trustees for $150m

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... traditional trustee clients. In addition, ANZ and EQT have agreed to explore other areas of mutual interest such as the development of solutions to meet the needs of ANZ clients who need access to aged care services. ANZ said the gain from the sale is ...

FPA announces winners of research grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... and University of New England won the grants. The initial grants are for $5,000 each and are aimed to encourage the development of financial planning as an academic discipline in its own right. Speaking about the grants, chair of the Grant Standing Committee ...