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CFA Societies adds board members, president

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
CFA Societies Australia has refreshed its boards in Sydney and Melbourne and has appointed a State Super executive as president. Charles Wu has been voted in as president of CFA Society Sydney after holding the position of vice president for over three ...

Aware Super cuts carbon emissions by 40%

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
... managed to reduce the carbon footprint of its equities portfolio by 40%. The $130 billion industry fund (formerly First State Super) has created a series of new listed equities benchmarks that will support the fund's goal of net zero emissions by 2050 ...

Rice Warner hires former First State deputy chief

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... into the First State organisation in 2019. Prior to that, he was chief executive officer of StatePlus after First State Super acquired the organisation in 2016. Before his time with First State Super, Arnott held several senior management roles at JPMorgan ...

Give the people advisers: Retirement Income Review

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... people lacking trust in this form of advice and thinking it should be free." The review pointed to research by First State Super (now Aware Super) which compared unadvised retirees with those receiving advice. Among the unadvised cohort, 7.7% switched ...

State Super scholarship opens

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
State Super's post-graduate scholarship program is open for students in New South Wales interested in studying superannuation. The Academic Scholarship program offers four $16,000 scholarships available for masters and honours students. There is also ...

State Super appoints acting CIO

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020
The $43 billion State Super has appointed an acting chief investment officer, after Gary Gabriel left for VFMC at October end. State Super's deputy chief investment officer Charles Wu is acting as the CIO, as State Super looks for a permanent replacement. ...

Super funds bullish on hiring

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
... "Across the industry there have been very few redundancies, and most redundancies have come due to mergers, namely First State Super and VicSuper and Equip and Catholic Super, mostly these were senior executives." "Some projects had been delayed as a ...

VFMC hires State Super investments chief

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
The chief investment officer of the $43 billion State Super has left the role for a new one at the Victoria Funds Management Corporation. Gary Gabriel joined the VFMC investment team on October 26 as its head of the portfolio management. He will lead ...

Ninety One wins equity mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... billion superannuation fund has awarded a mandate that targets Chinese equities to the newly rebranded Ninety One. State Super has allocated the mandate to Ninety One's 4Factor All China Equity strategy. Ninety One manages $205 billion with $92 billion ...

State Super appoints academic oversight body

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
State Super has appointed an independent academic oversight body for its investment data science program. The fund said the use of data science is growing, though using insights from more complex machine learning based models requires a strong governance ...