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HESTA makes first impact investment in affordable housing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
HESTA has made a $6.7 million investment in Horizon Housing, a community housing provider operating in Queensland focused on increasing the supply of social and affordable housing and helping low income earners achieve home ownership. The super fund ...

HESTA chief advocates better tax reform

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey said her fund members would not benefit from seeing a lift on the $30,000 tax cap for concessional superannuation contributions for women returning to work. It is a measure being considered by the federal government ...

Hostplus CEO joins ACSI board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
Hostplus chief executive David Elia was recently appointed as a director on the board of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). ACSI chief executive Louise Davidson confirmed the appointment and said the council was pleased to have ...

HESTA appoints marketing executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
After a decade as marketing and strategy manager at NGS Super, Lisa Samuels has made the move from Adelaide to Melbourne for a new role at HESTA. Samuels has joined the $32 billion industry superannuation fund as executive marketing strategy. Announcing ...

PROFILE: HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
"I love the fact that Melbourne has lots of immigrants and great, multicultural suburbs," she says, comparing it to the quiet suburb in Durban, South Africa, where she spent most of her childhood and early years of her adult life. A computer programmer ...

HESTA names new chief executive

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
HESTA has appointed its new chief executive officer to succeed Anne-Marie Corboy when she retires at the end of the month. Debby Blakey has been promoted from deputy chief executive of the $30 billion health and community services industry super fund. ...

High-calibre superannuation: 2014 CIO and COO Award recipients announced

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
Leading superannuation fund executives were recognised at the 2014 Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Awards held in Melbourne last night. When Sam Sicilia's name was announced as this year's recipient of the annual Chief ...

Terminally ill woman questions superannuation early release laws

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
A Queensland woman diagnosed with terminal cancer has said she will have to sell her home after she found that she could not access her superannuation. Last week the Fraser Coast Chronicle reported that 40-year-old mother Donna Penny had been given ...

HESTA makes board and exec team changes

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
Health and community services super fund HESTA has made new board appointments and brought on two new managers to its executive team. Debby Blakey left her member advice role to taken on the new full-time deputy chief executive position. On the management ...

HOSTPLUS, CareSuper take top gongs at AIST awards

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
Cooking competitions and Olympians were the winning formulas for HOSTPLUS and CareSuper with the two super funds winning the top awards at the annual AIST 2011 Awards for Excellence. The awards, attended by around 200 industry members, recognised diversity ...