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What is the future of transition management?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... management operations, the next few years are likely to see high demand for transition managers as more and more super funds merge. "I'm happy to see consolidation. It will play well to our business. It's a positive thematic, all things being equal." ...

Challenger launches CDI takeover bid

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
Challenger Life has made an off-market bid to become the sole owner of Challenger Diversified Property Group (CDI). Challenger Life currently owns almost 60% of CDI. It has offered to buy all remaining units at a price of $2.74 a unit, almost a 5% premium ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
The Australian share market is slightly lower as investors wait for a catalyst to give the market greater drive. Investors are hoping for inspiration from US non-farm payrolls employment data for March, to be release on Friday night, or the announcement ...

PROFILE: Westpac GM of bank financial planning

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
As Mike Chesworth celebrates his 35th anniversary at Westpac, the general manager of bank financial planning looks back at a remarkably varied career in Australia's oldest bank. James Fernyhough reports. Mike Chesworth is an endangered species: he has ...

Michael Hintze to join Financial Systems Inquiry

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
The founder and chief executive of global fund manager CQS Sir Michael Hintze is one of four appointments that have been made to an advisory panel to support the Financial Systems Inquiry (FSI). The International Advisory Panel will provide an expert ...

Smaller funds don't need to merge: legalsuper CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... countered claims that small to medium-sized super funds of less than $5 billion of funds under management will be forced to merge. His comments came in response to an article published in the Australian Financial Review on Monday claiming that funds ...

Tasplan and Quadrant mull merger

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
Tasmanian superannuation funds Quadrant fund Tasplan will investigate a merger and have entered into a Heads of Agreement. The two funds will consider whether there would be an improved provision of superannuation services to the members and employers ...

State Super to combine with two NSW state funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... Super with that of two other state-run funds. The management of SAS Trustee Corporation, the trustee of State Super, will merge with that of the Safety, Return to Work and Support Division (SRWSD) and NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp) to form a fund worth ...

Westpac appoints deputy CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
Westpac Group has created the role of deputy chief executive officer to address strategic issues such as the Financial System Inquiry and regulatory change. The current chief financial officer Phil Coffey will start in the new role of deputy chief executive ...

HIP Super CEO resigns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... Bernays' resignation and a spokesperson of the fund told Financial Standard that a new board will be appointed when the merge happens, on May 1, 2014. In the meantime, HIP Super compliance manager Sirran Syme has taken over the role of acting chief executive. ...