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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 ...

Ripoll demands parliamentary debate for FoFA reforms

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... ministerial edict and enforced legislation," Ripoll said in a presentation to the 2014 SPAA SMSF National Conference held in Brisbane today. "The proposed winding back of the FoFA regulations is not good for the government or the professional sector ...

ASIC: no plans for SMSF balance threshold

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... self-managed superannuation funds with balances under $100,000. Speaking at the 2014 SPAA SMSF National Conference in Brisbane this morning ASIC commissioner Greg Tanzer responded to industry concern that the regulator was planning to mandate a minimum ...

Looming pension deeming rules "lack clarity"

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... information. SPAA senior manager, technical and policy Jordan George told delegates at the 2014 SPAA SMSF National Conference in Brisbane today that the bill that will change the deeming rules for the Age Pension income testA "only needed two more votes ...