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State Super CEO heads to Schroders

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
Chris Durack, chief executive officer of State Super, is leaving the fund to join Schroder Investment Management as a director in the senior management team. Durack will stay with State Super until October and join Schroders later that month. "Funds ...

Rainmaker reveals 2011 Sales & Marketing Excellence Awards

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
Challenger emerged as the biggest winner from the 2011 Rainmaker Sales & Marketing Excellence Awards Dinner last night, picking up three awards, while PIMCO, Legg Mason and AustralianSuper each scooped two. The awards dinner, compared by ABC newsreader ...

HOSTPLUS serves up online engagement

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
HOSTPLUS plans to repeat its social media campaign to place an apprentice chef in one of Australia's leading restaurants after generating high levels of member engagement with its debut outing, the Rainmaker Sales and Marketing Symposium heard today. ...

First State Super and Health Super merger official

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
Today marks the official merge date between Health Super and First State Super, creating a $30 billion fund with more than 770,000 members. First State Super (FSS) said the merger has created Australia's third largest super fund. From Health Super's ...

Westpac goes on attack against lost super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
Westpac has gone on the attack against lost superannuation and instructed its 700 bank branches to pull out all stops to help their customers track down and consolidate any lost superannuation monies. The problem with lost super is not just that half ...

Collectible nightmare just an SMSF bad dream

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
The self-managed super fund industry is over-reacting to draft regulations for collectibles, a sector training provider said today. The SMSF Academy, a specialist education body for the SMSF industry, said rule changes on collectables were a necessary ...

BT Investment Management wins $61m mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
Advance Asset Management has awarded a $61.5 million new mandate to BT Investment Management for the Australian property sector after becoming disenchanted with the former investment managers. The charter was awarded in the March quarter, according ...

Plum adds super lawyer to board

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
Former chair of the Law Council of Australia Superannuation Committee, Peggy Haines, has joined the Plum Superannuation Fund and the Plum Pooled Superannuation Trust as a board trustee. Haines, a senior superannuation and financial services lawyer ...

Macarthur Cook founder joins Wealth Within

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
The former managing director of real estate company MacarthurCook joins boutique fund manager Wealth Within as a non-executive director. Craig Dunstan has over 25 years of experience in financial services and founded MacarthurCook in 2002. Prior to ...

Treasury Group appoints CEO

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
Treasury Group (TRG) has announced Andrew McGill as the successor to Mark Burgess as chief executive officer. The appointment is effective from 12 July 2011. "We conducted an extensive local and international search for the right candidate and we are ...