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Same super rules for same sex couples

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The government has introduced new superannuation rules that will address what has long been viewed as discrimination against same-sex de facto couples when it came to superannuation death benefits. Under existing Commonwealth superannuation and pension ...

AvSuper unlikely to follow govt fund mergers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
AvSuper has sought to clarify the fund is not a government super fund after receiving phone calls from members regarding the government's move to merge three government super funds to form a single trustee board. This follows a government announcement ...

Military Super names Watson as new chief

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
Military Super has appointed ARIA's deputy chief Paul Watson as its new head, effective next month. Watson takes on the new post after spending just over a year at ARIA, where he joined as deputy chief last July. Prior to joining ARIA, he was the deputy ...

Remarried war vet widows get pension

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... they remarried are now able to access their funds again under new government rules. According to the $3 billion Military Super, the Superannuation Act 1922, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948 and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits ...

McCullagh to depart Military Super

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
John McCullagh, chief executive of $3 billion Military Super, is retiring this year but has not ruled out continuing his involvement with Australia's wealth management industry. The Board of Military Super is on the hunt for a new chief executive to ...

AXA super tops league tables

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... Fund - Balanced rounded off the top five workplace default super funds, returning -2.1 per cent over one year. Military Super - Growth, CBA Officers' Super Fund - Growth, AGEST Super - Balanced, BUSS(Q) Employer - Balanced Growth and QSuper Balanced ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
The Returned Services League (RSL) has urged the government to reject plans to change the military's retirement fund because the proposed changes could disadvantage military service people. In July last year, the Howard Government created a military ...

Szondy joins Frontier

... current positions include director at Care Super and AustralianSuper, and chairman of the audit and risk committee at Military Super. He is also a former senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers with over 30 years experience in the audit and taxation ...

Babcock & Brown launches DIF III

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
... which invests in global alternative assets, has attracted the attention of several superannuation funds including Military Super and the WA Local Government Super. Following the success of Babcock & Brown's first and second Direct Investment Fund (DIF) ...

Battle lines drawn over defence force super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2007
... taxation. But Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton dismissed the claim and told the ALP to stop scaremongering over military super. "The latest 'stunt statement' [is] designed to create fear and uncertainty within the defence community and score cheap political ...