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ING ramps up wholesale lending business

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
ING Australia increased its wholesale lending by 24% over the previous year, the bank's 2017 results show. Clients of ING's wholesale banking loans include the Sydney Metro Northwest, New Royal Adelaide Hospital, and Queensland's Clare Solar Farm. "We ...

New income trust plans to raise $350m

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
Gryphon Capital Investments wants non-institutional investors to place money in secured debt securities with its new trust - which it says is the first of its kind in Australia. Gryphon Capital Income Trust (GCIT) will invest in residential mortgage ...

Findex names new managing partner

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
Findex has named the Crowe Horwarth managing partner of South Queensland. Mary Driscoll was previously a senior partner with Findex who oversaw the business advisory team. Before that, she was a principal at William Buck and a manager at DFK Australia ...

Advisers to embrace aged care opportunities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
As the need for aged care grows, so too does the need for specialised aged care financial advice. Estimating that less than 10% of advisers regularly provide aged care advice, Challenger is calling on financial advisers to become more educated on the ...

Bravura rolls out DB super functionality

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
Bravura Solutions' Sonata platform will now allow defined benefit plans to be administered for its super fund clients. The update also includes Bravura's messaging product for SuperStream, Babel, which combined with Sonata provides an automated, end-to-end ...

AMP head of retail sales departs

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
AMP's head of retail sales is departing following a restructure of the sales team last year. Stephen Craig joined AMP in 2008 as head of retail sales and marketing; he then became acting director, contemporary wealth management, head of goals-based ...

Advisers reckoning with direct risk sales growth: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
Life insurance products sold directly to consumers are gaining prevalence over an area historically dominated by financial advisers and dealer groups, Strategic Insight's latest statistics show. The researcher found that in the decade to 2017, risk ...

Queensland advice practice goes international

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
A Queensland-based financial advice business is expanding its operations to the United Arab Emirates. Atlas Wealth Management, a provider of long-distance specialty advice to Australian expats, has established a new outpost in Abu Dhabi. Appointing ...

LGIAsuper bolsters infrastructure investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
LGIAsuper is ramping up its stake in infrastructure investments, adding a regional port to its portfolio. LGIAsuper increased its interest in the Port of Portland to 31%, a deep-water facility located between Melbourne and Adelaide. One of its investment ...

BetaShares expands in Queensland

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
BetaShares is opening an office in Brisbane alongside a round of senior appointments to boost its national footprint. Leading BetaShares' Queensland presence is Craig Higson, who joins the ETF manager from SuperConcepts, where he was SMSF solutions ...