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Packhorse acquires inaugural property

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
The Packhorse Pastoral Company has secured its first property located in Queensland after raising $62.5 million. The agricultural asset manager acquired Stuart's Creek, an 8360-hectare parcel of land located 45 kilometres north-west of Roma, Queensland. ...

KLP divests Israeli-linked settlement firms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
Norway's largest pension fund KLP has offloaded 16 companies that operate in banking, construction, infrastructure and telecommunications in Israel connected to occupying Palestinian territory. The pension fund announced on June 5 that following failed ...

Crestone expands Brisbane presence

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
Crestone Wealth Management has hired its sixth investment adviser in the past year in a bid to expand its footprint in Brisbane. John Paul Geribello is the latest to join as an investment adviser this month, taking total staff numbers in Brisbane to ...

BT Super for Life ups insurance premiums

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2021
BT Super for Life will increase the cost of its standard life insurance cover by 13.1% from August 1. The standard cover includes death and TPD. As an example, a 34-year-old male member of BT Super for Life previously paid $11.41 each month for one ...

Westpac sells NZ life business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2021
Westpac announced the sale of its New Zealand life insurance arm, finding a buyer in Fidelity Life Assurance, which is backed by NZ Super Fund. The institution is selling the life insurance division for NZ$400 million ($373 million) in addition to a ...

CFS unveils new leadership team

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2021
Colonial First State unveiled a new leadership team to help transform the business, which includes the appointment of a chief executive for CFS Superannuation. General manager of product Kelly Power has been promoted to chief executive for CFS Superannuation ...

AustralianSuper consortium pays $1.67bn for logistics facility

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2021
AustralianSuper is taking a $774 million or 40% stake in Sydney's Moorebank Logistics Park, as a part of a consortium. APAC logistics specialist LOGOS partnered with AustralianSuper, Ivanhoe Cambridge, TCorp and AXA IM Alts to buy Moorebank Logistics ...

SocietyOne launches portal, hires

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2021
Digital finance platform SocietyOne has launched a new broker portal and made several key appointments. The new broker portal features a 'quick quote' and secured loan option, which the company said should allow brokers to find a rate for their client ...

Deutsche Bank appoints local chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
Deutsche Bank has named who will lead its Australian business one year after former incumbent Anthony Miller left for Westpac. Glenn Morgan takes the helm as chief executive, a role he's been acting in since July 2020. Morgan has been with the European ...

Westpac in fresh $87m remediation program

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
The failure of Westpac's former advisers to pass on corporate actions to clients for more than a decade will see the big bank pay a hefty bill. The $87 million that will be remediated affects 32,000 customer accounts, ASIC announced this morning ...