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BetaShares launches Metaverse ETF

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022
BetaShares has today launched a Metaverse ETF on the ASX, adding to its thematic fund offering. A company issued statement called the BetaShares Metaverse ETF (MTAV) an Australian first. It aims to track the Bloomberg Metaverse Select Index and currently ...

Foresters appoints chief risk officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022
Foresters Financial has appointed Greg Hanigan as chief risk officer. Hannigan will be based in Melbourne and report to chief executive Emma Sakellaris. Most recently Hannigan worked in risk compliance at IOOF and NAB as a senior risk partner. Before ...

Spirit Super pays tribute to Doug Fry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2022
One of Spirit Super's founding directors and its longest serving chair, Doug Fry, passed away last week. The fund paid tribute to Fry, who was a key player in the establishment of Tasplan. He was a founding director and served as chair of Tasplan for ...

MLC Life names head of fund partnerships

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2022
MLC Life Insurance has appointed a head of fund partnerships for the group insurance business, most recently on the leadership team of an industry super fund. Chris Porter has taken on the role, reporting directly to general manager, fund partnerships ...

PRI hires from Spirit Super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2022
The local branch of the UN Principles for Responsible Investing has bolstered its team, hiring Spirit Super's general manager for strategy. Bart Moye has been appointed signatory relationship manager at PRI. He will support head of Australia and New ...

Christian Super hires former Mercer executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
Christian Super has hired industry heavyweight David Stuart as investment chief, replacing Mark Rider who last month resigned to take up a similar role in the newly merged LGIAsuper and Energy Super. Stuart joins Christian Super following his most recent ...

What you read in 2021

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
In another year of lockdowns and uncertainty, Financial Standard 's most read stories show all eyes were on the changing nature of the superannuation sector. Industry consolidation and the Your Future, Your Super performance test underscore the ...

Industry fund chief steps down, successor named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2021
The longstanding chief executive of $26 billion industry superannuation fund Spirit Super will step down in the new year, with a QSuper executive to take up the role. Spirit Super's Leeanne Turner will step down as chief executive in early 2022 ...

PineBridge launches Asia small caps fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
The $172 billion fund manager has launched its third Australian-domiciled fund. The PineBridge Asia ex Japan Small Cap Genesis Fund is an Australia-domiciled fund that feeds into the strategy's UCITS fund. The underlying strategy is benchmark unaware ...

LGIAsuper to rebrand

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2021
As LGIAsuper completes its merger with Energy Super and starts the process of integrating Suncorp's super business into the fund, chief executive Kate Farrar tells Financial Standard there are some big changes ahead. From 1 July 2021, the successor ...