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LGS appoints new chair

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2013
... Blicavs and Keith Rhoades will replace outgoing directors Beverley Giegerl and Sam Byrne. Blicavs is a councillor at Wollongong City Council and the finance and operations manager at the International Association for Public Participation Australasia. ...

IFM consortium wins Port Botany lease

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... May 2013. Port Botany and Port Kembla serve as the primary import and export gateways to NSW. Port Kembla, located in Wollongong is Australia's largest vehicle import facility.

Trio Capital action group to put forward Federal Candidate

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
... yet, but that the group's options would be discussed at a public meeting to be held at the Illawarra Leagues Club, Wollongong on 2 February. VOFF has released a statement accusing the Gillard Government of a "whitewash" of the Trio Capital disaster. ...

Trio investor secures damages from adviser

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... successfully claimed damages from her former financial adviser, after losing substantial savings in the Trio fraud. Wollongong-based legal firm RMB Lawyers told the ABC it has been representing the woman, who has a terminal illness and lost approximately ...

Astarra director convicted by NSW Supreme Court

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... Curacao, the court reportedly heard. Financial advisers reportedly tendered character references for Richard including Wollongong planners Colin Warne of Dominion, who was himself previously banned from managing an investment scheme and Ronald Caines ...

Bans hit bad planners: ASIC

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... sentenced on May 20. It has been a busy week for the corporate regulator. On Monday it gave a life ban to Omar Diab of Wollongong who gave unlicensed financial advice and services and lied to his clients. Diab, a director of Sydney-based Xenith Capital ...

Trustee fury prompts SMSF compo rethink

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... decided to manage their own investments. Most of the 690 trustees left out of pocket by the Trio scam were from around Wollongong, NSW and the depth of their anger is reflected by the local newspaper, the Illawarra Mercury, which has mounted a "Justice ...

Cyclists raise $85k for Future2 charity

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... 28.4kph, took the cyclists from Bourke to Sydney though towns across New South Wales including Dubbo, Orange, Nowra and Wollongong. The cyclists raised over $85,000 for Future2, the foundation of the Australian financial planning profession, which supports ...

ING Aus opens Wollongong hub, to hire 600 staff

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
NSW Premier Kristina Keneally this morning opened the new ING superannuation and investments operations centre in Wollongong south of Sydney, the upgraded hub that is set to grow its staff numbers from 350 to 600 in three years. The four-and-a-half ...

ASSET Super appoints union member to board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... Christodoulou was elected assistant secretary of Unions NSW in October 2008. He joined the union in 1981 after being elected Wollongong Sub-Branch Secretary of the Miscellaneous Workers Union, which is now known as LHMU. He replaces Mark Lennon, secretary ...