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ASFA adds board members

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has appointed two directors to its board. ASFA made way for Sunsuper chair Andrew Fraser and IOOF chief operating officer Frank Lombardo as additional directors after the passing of a special resolution. ...

Aussie super funds climb ranks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... (29), First State Super (61), QSuper (67), UniSuper (74), Sunsuper (94), Rest (108), Cbus (117), HESTA (118), Commonwealth Super Corporation (143), State Super (163), ESSSuper (221), SuperSA (226), GESB (227), and VicSuper (270). Marking 17 years on ...

Corporate super plan appoints chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
A corporate superannuation plan has appointed a new chair from Frontier Advisors, as the incumbent retires after 16 years. Gabriel Szondy will chair the Alcoa of Australia Retirement Plan, which manages retirement savings for the employees of Alcoa ...

Public super fund rejigs offering

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
The superannuation fund for Australian Defence Force employees will now allow departing staff to stay with the fund and consequently, has added an insurance offering. ADF Super currently allows only serving employees of the defence force to be with ...

Industry fund adds investments officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
A $2.2 billion superannuation fund has welcomed a new investments officer, joining from Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation. Gina Dowley joined AvSuper in April in the role of investments officer, bringing more than 20 years' experience in superannuation. ...

Commonwealth Super names new chief

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) has named a new chief executive, hiring a former industry fund chief. Damian Hill, who was chief executive of Rest for 12 years, will now lead the $50 billion government fund. His appointment comes as CSC's ...

APRA releases fund-level ERS data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
APRA has released fund-level data showing the progress of the early release of super scheme, with 96% of requests being met within five business days. However, several funds have taken far longer. APRA's figures to May 3 show 830,000 payments were ...

Commonwealth Super mulls platform changes

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation is considering making changes to how it administers about 570,000 defined benefit member accounts as its existing systems age. CSC has invited interested companies to submit proof-of-concepts for a core registry ...

Pendal cuts fee on multi-asset fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
Pendal Group has dropped the fees on a $690 million multi-asset fund that has been running for close to 40 years. The Pendal Sustainable Balanced Fund will go from charging 0.90% per annum to 0.80% per annum in management costs. Indirect costs are 0.05% ...

The secret to super outperformance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
New research from the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) has revealed Australian superannuation funds that engage in responsible investing are outperforming their peers. The report looked at one, three and five-year time frames and ...