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Advice firm creates aged care subsidiary

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... Queensland financial advice practice is launching a subsidiary business assisting the elderly transition into aged care. Gold Coast-based Wealth Planning Partners has established Trusted Aged Care Services to provide a suite of services to families to ...

AFA returning to its roots

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
... advisers and the same can be expected of the national roadshows mid-year and October's national adviser conference on the Gold Coast. "We want to ensure that membership engagement at the grassroots level is not diminished and our culture that we have ...

Property not the answer for passive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2017
Passive investors would benefit from reducing their exposure to property and low-growth large-caps. That is the central point of a new white paper published by Montgomery Investment Management warning investors in property and stocks of the looming ...

Federal Court dismisses ASIC allegations

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
... relation to transactions in the LM Managed Performance Fund (LPF). The fund loaned money to Maddison Estate to complete a Gold Coast property development; ASIC was concerned about the directors' decision to allow an extension of said loan in 2012. The ...

Goldman Sachs fined $120m for rate rigging

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
Goldman Sachs will pay a $120 million penalty for attempting to rig global benchmarks for interest rate products. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission found that, between January 2007 and March 2012, traders in New York - including the head of ...

Top 10 investment stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
1. AustralianSuper merges investment options In January AustralianSuper closed three investment options and replaced them with two as part of a streamlining process aiming to keep costs low and refocus the fund's investment efforts. The industry super ...

Super skimming adviser permanently banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
A Gold Coast adviser was permanently banned by ASIC for acting dishonestly and engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct. Stewart Banks was a representative of Professional Investment Services (PIS) - a wholly-owned subsidiary of Centrepoint Alliance ...

ANZ director retires after nine years

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
An ANZ director retired following the bank's annual general meeting having served on the board for nine years. Former RBA governor and distinguished economist Ian Macfarlane became an ANZ director in 2007; at the time, he also became a director at Woolworths. ...

Perpetual's Parkin resigns, successor named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
Perpetual's deputy head of equities Nathan Parkin will step down effective immediately, with his replacement already named. Vince Pezzullo will take on the role, while Parkin's portfolio management responsibilities will be shared between Pezzullo and ...

Private equity firm secures Telstra site for student housing

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2016
Student accommodation continues to be an attractive asset class in Australia following the most recent purchase from a global private equity fund manager. Gaw Capital purchased the Telstra Building in Perth's CBD through one of its several funds under ...