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Fiducian appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... officer of Ensurance. Prior to that, he was the deputy chief executive of Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund. At the same fund, he was also chief operating officer, chief finance officer, complaints officer and secretary of the audit ...

BUSSQ sees C-suite expansion

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... search for a new chief operating officer and hence will expand the executive team. BUSSQ recently topped all three retirement fund categories in the SelectingSuper performance tables. According to the July Rainmaker Benchmarking report, BUSSQ placed ...

BlackRock appoints Australia head

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
BlackRock has appointed a new country head of Australia. Dominik Rohe was previously based in New York, working in BlackRock's Latin America and Iberia business as head of institutional and wealth lines. Prior to that, he was head of institutional and ...

AustralianSuper hits the $100bn mark

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
AustralianSuper's retirement funds under management have reached $100 billion for the first time. Australia's largest super fund attributed this to new members and reduced costs. Furthermore, the fund's scale has allowed it greater direct investment ...

Gardior appoints ANZ vet as new director

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
... director to its board. Ian Gillings joins Gardior as the representative of shareholder Australian Catholic Schools & Retirement Fund (ACSRF); he will also sit on the Gardior's utilities committee. Gardior has held senior roles at Booz Allen, ANZ Investment ...

Self-employed missing super savings

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... both female employees and males who are self-employed. Women (60-64) who are self-employed have $85,000 in their retirement fund on average compared to $155,000 for a male. This figure would provide only a very modest retirement income for a female.

Not-for-profit fund buys StatePlus

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
A $54 billion not-for-profit super fund is set to acquire StatePlus from State Super, which it says will create the largest member-owned financial planning network in Australia. First State Super (FSS) and State Super have reached a binding settlement ...

Agriculture ripe for institutional picking

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2016
... AMP Capital Investors, Mine Wealth + Wellbeing, Christian Super, and the Australian Catholic Superannuation & Retirement Fund among others. Last month SAF publicly said it is looking to raise more capital and almost double its fund to $300 million - ...

SME owners urged to streamline their retirement exit strategies

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
Over the next five years 40% of owners plan to leave their businesses, with 66% planning to use the profits from selling their businesses as their primary source of retirement income. Despite this, only 12% have a documented succession and exit strategy ...

Parametric scores international equities mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
... Parametric to manage a portion of its international equities portfolio. The Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (ACSRF) will be the first Australian client to adopt Parametric's tax-managed indexing (TMI) strategy. The international ...