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Mergers likely for Media Super

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... chief executive. Yesterday the $3 billion industry fund for the media and publishing sectors announced that current First Super boss Graeme Russell would become its chief executive early next year. Russell will replace long-standing Media Super chief ...

CCH to handle First Super compliance admin

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
Compliance and reporting specialist CCH has partnered with First Super to help comply with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)'s more extensive reporting requirements. The new rules, which come into force from July 2013, require all ...

AvSuper chairman to step down

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... challenges elsewhere in the superannuation industry," said Grant. Under Grant's stewardship the fund became one of the first super funds in the country to gain an RSE license and become a public offer fund. He was also responsible for introducing member ...

Murdoch defies shareholder sentiment

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... remain ensconced in his dual-role as News Corp chairman and CEO despite protests from up to two-thirds of shareholders. First Super, the $1.7 billion Australian industry super fund, had banded with investment bodies from the UK, Europe and the US to ...

Super fund backs News Corp independence push

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... proposal that the News Corp chairperson be an independent director will be supported by the $1.7 billion Industry fund, First Super, which holds shares in the company. The fund for Australia's timber, pulp, paper, and furniture industries will also try ...

First Super appoints MetLife

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
First Super has appointed MetLife Insurance Limited as its group insurance provider after a recent review of its insurance arrangements. Marc Lieberman, chief executive officer at MetLife, said, "We are committed to bringing long-term value to our relationship ...

FIRST Super invites Tony Abbott to board meeting

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
Industry fund FIRST Super has extended an olive branch to Tony Abbott, inviting the Opposition leader to their next board meeting. The invite comes in the wake of Abbott's scathing criticism last week of the way industry super fund boards are run. According ...

LGS first fund to sign iqBoard solution

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... the iPad and signing with newly-launched trustee office solution, iqBoard, from The IQ Business Group's iqCloud. The first super fund to sign up its board governance to the IQ Business Group (IQBG) superannuation community cloud, Local Government Super ...

A minute to midnight sees super funds merge

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... June 30? Those vital 60 seconds were pondered during an afternoon talk by Graeme Russell, chief executive officer of First Super at the Mergers & Acquisitions for Super Funds conference in Sydney yesterday. Russell, who has helped five funds transition ...

HSBC targets super funds with China access

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... business we're focusing on the larger players from day one," said Pidgeon. At the end of last year HSBC secured its first super fund mandate for its China A share fund. It is well positioned to help super funds gain exposure to the China A shares sector ...