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Greg Sword resigns as CEO of LUCRF Super

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
LUCRF Super chief executive Greg Sword will step down after eight years in the role. His last day will be June 30 2014. He informed the LUCRF Super board of his decision this morning in order to provide adequate notice to find a replacement. "This will ...

Government targets super in awards, board independence

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
The Abbott government looks set to follow through on its plan to introduce a quota of independent directors on super fund boards, and to take superannuation out of modern awards, following the release of a discussion paper by Assistant Treasurer Arthur ...

ISA appoints former cabinet minister to advisory role

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has appointed the Hon Greg Combet AM to an advisory role for the next year. Combet served as a Cabinet Minister in the former Federal Government and is a former Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. As principal ...

Investors demand more clarity on carbon exposures

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... which the omission of key questions just adds. " AODP board member Sharan Burrow, whose organisation, International Trade Union Confederation, is preparing to add to the member pressure on funds said: "We simply don't have time to talk about fund policy ...

Australian Ethical appoints board director

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... Advisory Council. In 2009 Gibbs received the SelectingSuper industry service award. Gibbs earlier career was in the trade union movement.

Business continues to resist 12pct SG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... opportunity to put in place a legally binding mechanism for a wage superannuation trade off. This week the Australian trade union movement said they will not have a bar of trade off through collective bargaining." Anderson said that is what the Keating ...

PM: Labor taking reform road on super

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
Prime Minister Julia Gillard told attendees at the Labour Union Co-operative Retirement Fund (LUCRF) community partnership trust launch in Sydney on Friday that the rise in the SG and abolition of the age cap would change peoples' futures. Pointing ...

Improved governance called for all round

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
Several large superannuation funds last week demanded improved corporate governance in the wake of the News Corporation scandal, but both the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Australian Institute of Company Directors have said the ...

Trade union boss pushes for SG raise

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
The Australian Council of Trade Unions president, Ged Kearney, has voiced her support for a higher super guarantee and urged women in the super industry to maintain the fight for equal rights and to demand more action from government figures. Speaking ...

Consolidated super corporation appoints board

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
The Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation has announced its inaugural board with the current chair of ARIA and MSB, Tony Hyams, given the position of chairman. The Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) has been established by the consolidation ...