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Hostplus nabs top JANA executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2024
The $110 billion industry fund that looks after hospitality workers has snared a senior property executive from JANA Investment Advisers. Chris Cawson jumped to Hostplus two weeks after the asset consultant lost its infrastructure head to the industry ...

Cbus MySuper investment option returns 8.35%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
... has reported an 8.35% return for its growth MySuper investment option for the last financial year. The $94 billion industry fund said that the option has averaged an annual return of 7.73% over the past 10 years. It has achieved an average annual return ...

IFS launches two courses with Kaplan

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
Industry Fund Services (IFS) has partnered with Kaplan Professional to offer superannuation fund staff further education and training as the sector gears up to offer more financial advice. The courses target super fund staff predominately working in ...

AustralianSuper reports 'solid return', lags rivals

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
AustralianSuper's default balanced investment option, where over 90% of its members are invested, reported an 8.46% return for the last financial year. That option has an average annual return of 8.72% over 15 years. Meanwhile, the $335 billion super ...

Committee calls for 'sick agency' ASIC to be split in half

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
The Senate committee tasked with assessing the capabilities of ASIC says the government should recognise the regulator has "comprehensively failed to fulfil its regulatory remit", calling for a complete overhaul of its structure, powers and how it's ...

AIA Australia releases new member insurance portal

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
... portal usage and a 40% drop in queries to claims call centres. HESTA chief experience officer Lisa Samuels said the industry fund is always focussed on improving member outcomes and experiences, and accentuated the importance of the insurance claims ...

Industry Super Australia names new chair

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2024
... marketing and strategy He joined Hostplus in 2011, becoming chief marketing officer a few years later. He left the industry fund - that looks after workers in the hospitality, tourism and sports industries- in 2018 but rejoined three years later as group ...

Super leaders take out King's Birthday honours

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2024
... and one-time deputy chair of AustralianSuper Greg Combet. Also recognised was Ray Sputore, a trustee at Cbus, the industry fund that serves the building and construction industry. Mostyn, a former president of Chief Executive Women, was awarded a Companion ...

HESTA nabs legalsuper executive

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
... and strategy execution experience will be instrumental in further solidifying HESTA's position as a leading industry fund," he said. Speaking about her new appointment, Knight said: "I am keen to contribute to the fund's ongoing success by leveraging ...

HESTA pushes for expediated advice reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
... leading it to urge the government to release tranche two of the Quality of Advice Review reforms. The $89 billion industry fund noted a strong demand for digital tools for retirement planning. HESTA reported that more than 300,000 of its nearly one million ...