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Super fund overhauls group insurance cover

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2019
... group insurance policies, as well as its products and investment options in line with the Protecting Your Super reforms. QSuper is making changes to income protection waiting periods and benefit periods from July 1 will affect some members depending ...

Material weakness in super funds, insurers exposed

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2019
... Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation, Diversa Trustees, First State Super, Mercer Superannuation, Perpetual Superannuation, QSuper, Rest, Cbus and Hostplus. The life insurers included: AMP Life, Challenger, MLC and TAL Life. As for the banks, ANZ ...

Lifecycle fails to woo industry super

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... the 60-69 year age cohort for example. Catholic Super had a 62% allocation to equities for the segment while others like QSuper, BT Super, Tasplan, Local Government Super and Asgard kept equities allocations under 30% for equivalent cohorts in their ...

Should super funds segregate pension assets?

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... meaning they manage underlying investments for their accumulation and pension members in a single pool. However, the likes of QSuper and HESTA have made a move to "segregate" their assets by setting aside a portion of assets to meet current pension liabilities. ...

Aussie instos among most responsible investors

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
... and VFMC ranked within the top quintile of analysed funds, while Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation, HESTA, QIC and QSuper were named finalists. The difference between leaders and winners, New America said, was narrow: leaders averaged 96 points ...

Insurance expert joins $33bn super fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
... AustralianSuper ($9bn) enjoyed the largest inflows, followed by Sunsuper ($6.7bn), Hostplus ($6.2bn), Equipsuper ($5.4bn) and QSuper ($3.8bn). This was at the expense of retail funds: MLC Super (-$1.5bn), BTFG (-$1.46bn) and ANZ Wealth (-$1.1bn), which ...

Super funds hungry for global stocks, alternatives

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
... the total mandates by number. Hostplus now has 166 outsourced investment mandates, with an average size of $219 million. QSuper has the biggest-sized mandates. Its $81.7 billion of outsourced investments is spread across 30 mandates with an average size ...

Rice Warner names new chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
The former head of Willis Towers Watson Australasia will now lead Rice Warner as its chief executive. Andrew Boal takes the post as Michael Rice steps down after 30 years of building and leading the business. Rice remains as an executive and board member ...

Superannuation, insurance expert joins EY

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
... financial services law division after spending nine years at law firm Mills Oakley, where some of clients included Hostplus, QSuper and First State Super. At Mills Oakley, McKechnie focused on super and life insurance, and specialised in group insurance. ...

Indigenous super access needs improvement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... people living in remote locations with little access to technology. Boyle, who also spoke on the panel, said funds such as QSuper, HESTA and AustralianSuper have taken the initiative to reunite ATSI people with lost super, as well as raise awareness ...