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Contango appoints chief investment officer from UBS

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
Contango Asset Management has appointed George Boubouras as chief investment officer, effective immediately. Boubouras succeeds company founder, David Stevens who the company said will continue to play an "important role" for the Melbourne-based investment ...

Challenger retail annuity sales up 8%, profit down

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
Challenger annuity sales were up 8% during the first half of the 2014-2015 financial year, but net profit after tax was down, the half year report showed. Annuity sales reached $2.1 billion, of which $1.6 billion were retail annuity sales, up 8% since ...

Grexit not Greek to Brits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
No deal! This is the latest news on the Greek bail out talks, and onwards until the next bluff we go... until the 11th hour when ultimately Greece and its creditors suddenly become lovey-dovey once more holding hands while kicking the can down the road ...

Long-serving BT exec announces retirement

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
BT Financial Group's long-serving general manager of adviser distribution Chris Freeman is retiring. He will begin stepping down from his duties in the latter half of 2015, but will stay on part-time as a consultant for a further two years. As he transitions ...

Finance minister seeks interest from property investors

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
The government is seeking interest from potential property investors in six Commonwealth properties in Canberra as part of its property divestment program, Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance ...

Bendigo lifts half-year cash earnings by 10.9%

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (BEN) announced underlying cash earnings of $217.9 million in the six months to 31 December 2014, a 10.9% increase on the previous half-year. After tax statutory profit was $227.3 million, and cash earnings per share were 48.1c. ...

ASX half-year profit up 4.7%

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
ASX Ltd has released its half-year results to 31 December 2014 and has lifted profit 4.7% to $198.6 million. Revenues rose by 5.9% to $348.7 million, and the ASX will pay a fully-franked interim dividend of 92.3c to shareholders in March. According ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
The share market has opened higher as investors welcomed Rio Tinto's profit growth and massive return to investors. A strong lead from Wall Street, rising commodity prices and optimism driven by a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine also boosted investor ...

Stella Network ramps up support for women in financial planning

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
A networking group set up to support women in financial planning celebrated its one-year birthday this week with a string of good news for its members and supporters. On Wednesday night, the legendary Joan Sutherland Studio of the Opera Australia in ...

Macquarie Wrap adds international stocks, fixed income

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
International listed securities and domestic fixed income securities are available to advisers as investment options through the Macquarie Wrap. International listed securities allow advisers to trade fully paid ordinary shares and common stocks across ...