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Future Generation IPO raises $300m

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... grateful to our shareholders who deserve a special thank you for establishing a significant funding base for youth mental health," FGG chairman and University of Sydney chancellor Belinda Hutchinson said. Among the fund's first investors were the Smith ...

SuperFriend launches mental illness framework

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... group life insurance and superannuation industry" in addition to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal and National Mental Health Commission. It was developed in response to 2014 SuperFriend research, which showed that mental illness and suicide-related ...

Financial services fail to share mental health data

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... Two-thirds of listed financial services companies are failing to disclose important data for measuring employee mental health against wider standards. According to a new report by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), only a third ...

AIA renews commitment with SuperFriend

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
AIA Australia has renewed its partnership with Mental Health Foundation SuperFriend for five more years. SuperFriend is a national initiative that aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of "all profit to member" superannuation fund members ...

Australian Unity expands healthcare property trust

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... $45.85 million. These are a Kent Town (SA) healthcare property, a building in Townsville (QLD) to be converted to a mental health facility and the Brisbane Waters Private Hospital on the Central Coast (NSW). "The HPT's development pipeline is as active ...

Equip Super partners with SuperFriend

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
Equip Super has partnered with SuperFriend to offer workplace mental health and wellbeing programs. The industry super fund has added the programs to its range of employer and member services, which focuses on forging alliances that can broaden the ...

Australian Unity adds Townsville property to healthcare fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... its Healthcare Property Trust. The property is an office building that AUREI is proposing to convert into a 60 bed mental health hospital. Health Care Australia is intending to then lease the property for 22.5 years and the development of the brownfields ...

Super funds launch mental-illness claims benchmark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... why this was. SuperFriend chief executive Margo Lydon said: "The SuperMIND research reinforces the reality that mental health and wellbeing is a risk management issue not just for super funds and their insurers but for government employers and the broader ...

Simplify your products, life insurers told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... underwriting decisions. However, Laughlin conceded the current crisis wasn't all the fault of life companies. "The issue of mental health impacting disablement claims for example is a factor that the industry can't necessarily have a great influence ...

FSC Conference: Follow the biopsychosocial model, life companies told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... behind initiatives to prevent health problems and encourage employees back into work, particularly those relating to mental health, such as SuperFriend. The FSC today announced it had signed up to Health Benefits of Work position paper. Read all Financial ...