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Channel Capital acquires QIC small cap business

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
QIC's Australian small cap investment team will shortly join Brisbane-based global investment business Channel Capital. QIC agreed to divest its smaller companies capability after determining it a non-core business. Channel Capital was spun out fund ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... news is expected on Tuesday. In equities news, Wesfarmers is expected to post its third quarter sales results, while the Brisbane Broncos has its annual general meetings scheduled and G8 Education has an AGM and an extraordinary general meeting. In Australia ...

FoFA amendments undermine confidence in advisers: Shorten

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation undermine confidence in financial advisers. Speaking to journalists in Brisbane today, Shorten said that "the government should stop changes which undermine confidence in the financial planning market." Shorten ...

AustralianSuper consortium picks up QLD motorways for $7bn

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... AustralianSuper, as part of a consortium led by toll road owner Transurban, is set to pay $7 billion to buy a string of Brisbane motorways from the Queensland government. The consortium said it had signed an agreement to buy Queensland Motorways, which ...

PROFILE: Bernie Ripoll

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... was not to regain Pauline Hanson notorious seat of Oxley for Labor, nor was it to become the long-standing MP for the Brisbane suburb or to head the Parliamentary Joint Committee that would end up reshaping financial advice. "There were only a couple ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... cents to $7.29 after the competition watchdog said it would not oppose the proposed purchase of several government-owned Brisbane roads by a Transurban-led consortium.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... governor Glenn Stevens is scheduled to address the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia (AMCHAM) business luncheon in Brisbane. The Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release February retail trade figures and international trade in goods ...

MLC appoints new GM of advice groups

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... after less than a year in the role, though he has been with NAB/MLC since last century. He leaves the bank to return to Brisbane where he will become a partner in a boutique advice and accounting firm. Barnwell was previously head of sales, retail wealth ...

International capital requirements could cripple insurers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... held meetings this week with Australian officials in Canberra, ahead of the G20 Leaders' Summit that will be held in Brisbane in November. GFIA chair and president of the Canadian Health and Life Insurance Association Frank Swedlove told journalists ...

Blue Sky on track to reach $500m by June

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... increase in underlying income to $7.2 million for the half year to 31 December. As with prior half-year results, the Brisbane-based manager reported a small underlying profit of $300,000, and the directors anticipate the group's underlying net profit ...