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AustSuper denies member exploitation of group insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk has denied that 'automatic acceptance' to the fund's group life insurance offering is being exploited. AustralianSuper's insurer, TAL, recently announced that its profits were down by almost 60% from the same ...

MySuper authorisations nears 100

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
... only a handful of in-house company corporate super funds are MySuper authorised. Notwithstanding this AMP and AustralianSuper have recently had nine subplans authorised: AMP's Brookfields, Coca-Cola Amatil, Macquarie Bank staff, Woolworths, Sydney Diocese ...

Combet joins IFM Investors board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... assistant secretary. He has close ties to the industry fund movement. Between 2002 and 2007 he was a director of AustralianSuper, which is by far the biggest investor in IFM Investors, accounting for approximately $20 billion of IFM's almost $49 billion ...

HESTA named Super Fund of the Year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... Wealth Focus Pension Plan was named best Retirement Premium Choice product. Other finalists included equipsuper, AustralianSuper, HOSTPLUS, BT Business Super, CFS FirstChoice Employer and Wholesale, netwealth Super Wrap, Asgard Employee Super, Catholic ...

ASIC to scrutinise The New Daily

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... (ASIC) scrutinise The New Daily on the grounds that it is a bad investment. But The New Daily, which is owned by AustralianSuper, Cbus and Industry Super Holdings, is not an investment at all. Williams, who is a federal senator for New South Wales, said ...

QIC wins AustralianSuper US property mandate

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
AustralianSuper has appointed direct property fund manager QIC to manage its US retail property investments. As of June 2013, AustralianSuper already had $1.1 billion in pooled investments with the Australian investment manager, which specialises in ...

AustralianSuper CEO justifies The New Daily

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk has categorically denied that The New Daily will be a politically partisan publication, saying if it took a political line it would "wither on the vine in five minutes." The launch of the industry super fund-owned ...

Most super funds shun in-house investment

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... understand that insourcing funds management involves a very different risk profile and needs careful consideration." AustralianSuper, UniSuper, Telstra Super, MTAA and Qsuper are some of the super funds that have been vocal about bringing all or some ...

Industry and retail models increasingly similar: Sunsuper CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... competitive, less industry-specific environment. However, it may not sit well with many in the industry fund sector. AustralianSuper's non-alignment to any particular industry has caused some in the sector to view it as essentially a retail fund. While ...

The New Daily not an investment: Silk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
The New Daily news publication is not an investment but a member engagement tool, AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk has said. Silk told Financial Standard that, since news of the new publication hit the press over the weekend, there had been ...