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Zurich adds to leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
Zurich Life & Investments has bolstered its leadership team, including a new chief distribution officer. Zurich will welcome three new executives; a chief distribution officer, head of customer and digital and head of strategy. Kieran Forde has been ...

NSW budget boosts TCorp loans

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
TCorp has unveiled its new funding program that will increase client loans in line with the New South Wales government's record spend on infrastructure. In FY21, TCorp's funding program consists of $32 billion of new client loans. Maturities for the ...

ASIC charges BitConnect Australia lead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
The former BitConnect Australian national promoter has been charged by ASIC for operating an unregistered investment scheme and making false statements. John Bigatton promoted the online cryptocurrency platform prior to its collapse in early 2018. It ...

Chief economist update: Vaccine optimism sparks AUD resurgence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
The Australian dollar is back! Back above the US$0.73 level that is. The Australian currency rose to around this level back in late-August/early-September after the US Federal Reserve announced a shift into a lower for longer strategy - suggesting that ...

Mike Baird to chair government fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Former Premier of New South Wales and National Australia Bank chief customer officer Mike Baird had landed a new role as chair of the Australian Business Growth Fund. The $540 million fund provides patient equity funding to growing small and medium ...

Gwen Fletcher Award winner named

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has announced the winner of its prestigious biannual Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award. Jacob McCudden from Back to Back Financial Planners, an advice business based in the regional town of Young in New ...

Aware Super backs electricity transition

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
Aware Super is voicing its support for the state government's initiative to modernise the electricity system for New South Wales. The NSW government's newly-unveiled Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap aims to transition the state's electricity supply ...

State Super scholarship opens

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
State Super's post-graduate scholarship program is open for students in New South Wales interested in studying superannuation. The Academic Scholarship program offers four $16,000 scholarships available for masters and honours students. There is also ...

Hastings founder launches new fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
Hastings Funds Management's founder Mike Fitzpatrick is launching a new wholesale fund that will invest in unlisted infrastructure. The TRUE Infrastructure Fund will use a fund-of-fund structure to invest in funds from two managers, ATLAS Infrastructure ...

MIRA set to acquire REIT

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) is proposing to acquire a real estate investment trust valued at $300 million. MIRA is offering to take over Vitalharvest Freehold Trust (VTH) for a cash consideration of $1 per share by way of a trust ...