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NSW to receive $2 billion infrastructure incentive

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
The NSW government will receive $2 billion in incentive payments from the Commonwealth for its infrastructure recycling strategy, Treasurer Joe Hockey has announced. Designed to incentivise NSW Premier Mike Baird's plan to lease 49% of the state's electricity ...

Australian Unity expands healthcare property trust

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... Townsville (QLD) to be converted to a mental health facility and the Brisbane Waters Private Hospital on the Central Coast (NSW). "The HPT's development pipeline is as active as it's ever been, with work underway or about to commence on six hospitals ...

Baird to launch Sydney not-for-profit "fintech hub"

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
NSW Premier Mike Baird has announced the development of Sydney's first financial technology hub. Located at 45 Clarence St, the hub (known as "Stone and Chalk") will provide technology start-ups with, as Baird put it, "subsidised office space to collaborate ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... Speakers at the International Women's Day Breakfast in Sydney include Erin Flaherty, Executive Director of Infrastructure NSW, Simon Rothery, CEO of Goldman Sachs in Australia & New Zealand, Sally Loane, CEO of the Financial Services Council. The Australian ...

Women in Super launches executive education scholarships

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... Women in Super (WIS) and the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) have joined forces to offer scholarships for NSW WIS members wishing to fast track their career in superannuation. The scholarships are sponsored by AGSM (UNSW Business School) ...

IFS opens unlisted infrastructure assets to retail investors

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... investors. The IFM Fund has investments in well-known assets including Melbourne Airport, Brisbane Airport, Port of Brisbane and NSW Ports. The IFS Infrastructure Investment Model has set a target benchmark return, after fees, of above 10% per annum ...

Privatisation backlash derails infra investing

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... opposition, and now the issue of public sector asset sales is becoming the central theme of the upcoming state election campaign in NSW. Recognising this, Queensland's newly elected Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has vowed that her first act will be to ...

Ex-ANZ adviser sent to jail over $6m fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
... over a period of 20 years. Melinda Scott will serve three years and ten months in jail before being eligible for parole, the NSW District Court ruled yesterday. Scott ran her own financial planning business, Roach Graham Scott, between January 1989 and ...

Sunsuper makes two senior appointments

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... and Smartline Personal Mortgage Advisers. Additionally, he holds a non-executive director position with the Cancer Council NSW and is the chair of that organisation's Investment and Remuneration committees. Sunsuper has also appointed Philip Gardner ...

Industry insurance report to focus on advice remuneration model

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... executive Geoff Summerhayes, NAB Wealth group executive and MLC chief executive Andrew Hagger, AFA chief executive Brad Fox, AFA NSW state director Jeff Thurecht and Centrepoint Alliance chief executive John de Zwart.