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First State Super acquires rental properties

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... Housing affordability is a growing challenge for residents across the city, with nine of out 10 hospital workers in Melbourne currently living more than 47 minutes away from their work, 32% longer than the state average. Commute times for health and ...

Melbourne boutique adds to team

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
A Melbourne bond investor has hired a head of compliance as its assets under management hit the $5 billion mark. Jamieson Coote Bonds has appointed Ivy Choo in the role. Choo will look after the boutique's compliance and risk framework and has worked ...

Coronavirus in, climate change out: Costello, deVere

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... spreading virus. "As of today, the big short-term risk would be the coronavirus," Costello told a press conference in Melbourne. "We don't know how far that will spread, we don't know what it will do to the tourism industry; we don't know ...

Apt Wealth Partners acquires firm

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... Partners, a national financial advice business with more than $1.5 billion in funds under management, has acquired a Melbourne-based advice firm. Apt Wealth Partners has acquired Semaphore Private. The acquisition will see James McGregor continue as ...

Green light for $1b Cbus tower

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
Cbus Property has received approval from the Victorian government for a new $1 billion office tower in Melbourne's CBD. The permit-approved development will be known as 435 Bourke Street and will comprise 59,000 square metres of office space across ...

Chief economist update: Australians all let's not rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... feel good." Sadly, Australians are not singing and dancing to this upbeat classic by Katrina and the Waves. The Westpac/Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey shows that consumer pessimism has deepened in January. The consumer index fell from ...

Aussie investment gurus delve into alternatives

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... nearly half of those surveyed (47%). The respondents of the JP Morgan Asset Management survey attended briefings in Melbourne and Sydney during December 2019, and include investment professionals from superannuation funds, pension funds, investment consultants ...

Family office manager hires Discovery director

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... indicated intention to shut shop in 2019, including Denning Pryce, Sigma Funds Management and Mhor Asset Management while Melbourne long/short manager ARCO wound up its funds after being abandoned by its family office backer.

New super fund to launch

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... page reads. The website for the fund is not yet live but a spokesperson confirmed it has staff working across Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. The fund was registered with APRA on 10 September 2019, according to the Australian Taxation Office. In Xplore ...

Why women struggle in financial advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... factors keeping women out of the financial advice industry. The University of Otago in New Zealand and RMIT University in Melbourne have collaborated to explore why so many fewer women go into financial advice compared to men. Women only make up 20% ...