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Equip hires head of technology from GE

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2016
... leadership team to ensure that system transformation is supported by appropriate training and change management programs." Equipsuper manages assets of over $7.5 billion for 50,000 members and their employers. The fund is multi-sector, servicing employers ...

Equip's new provision for domestic violence

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
Equipsuper has announced an addition to its employee support program that will see an extra five days' fully paid leave for staff affected by domestic violence. The special leave will support any employees who, as a result of domestic violence, are ...

EQT chair to stay on despite plans to depart

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... chief executive. This news follows the resignation of EQT's managing director, Robin Burns, who joined EQT in 2010 from Equipsuper. His replacement, Michael J O'Brien, has been appointed executive director, having been a non-executive director since ...

EQT managing director departs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... managing director has announced his resignation. Robin Burns joined EQT in 2010, having previously been chief executive of Equipsuper. Prior to that, he was general manager - corporate affairs at AXA Asia Pacific, chief executive - risk (life and health ...

New standards for member engagement

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... advice model, to be delivered at the time most members will be looking for retirement advice." Webster added VicSuper, EquipSuper and Australian Catholic Super were among the first funds to introduce a retirement incomes proposition for their members ...

Equip to pay super contributions during parental leave

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
Equipsuper is prepared to walk the talk when it comes to helping close Australia's gender savings gap, announcing it will pay superannuation guarantee contributions in to its employees' super accounts during paid and unpaid parental leave. The decision ...

Equip drops super fees

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
Industry superannuation fund Equipsuper has presented members with an early Christmas present, announcing it will cut fees and costs for accumulation and pension members from February 2016. Fee and cost cuts at the $7 billion fund have come from investment ...

Equipsuper invests in fintech, robo-advice firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
Equipsuper has invested in a fintech startup that will develop the fund's digital advice and investment platform. Clover is a Melbourne-based financial technology company that offers an automated investment service. The platform adopts a goals-based ...

Equipsuper members anxious about retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
Research recently commissioned by Equipsuper shows why education and advice are vital components to any superannuation fund as members become more anxious about their retirement. Equipsuper's 2015 annual member survey, conducted by CoreData, suggests ...

Is content king for super funds?

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... superannuation funds yet it requires a different set of rules and skills than pure fund management to engage the public sphere. Equipsuper strategic marketing and communications executive officer, Geoff Brooks, said knowing when to be in the right publishing ...