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Future Super strengthens investments team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022
... business. He will be responsible for executing the investment strategy for Future Super's product suite, chief executive Simon Sheikh confirmed. Tomlinson was head of investments for the Pacific region at Aon, overseeing both smartMonday and its KiwiSaver ...

Co-founder departs Future Super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
... friendly superannuation fund Future Super has departed after eight years. Adam Verwey, who founded Future Super with Simon Sheikh in 2014, has left the fund. "Adam is taking time out to take a break and travel the world now that the borders have reopened," ...

Future Super acquires Aon's super business

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 DEC 2021
... benefit from fee reductions associated with harmonising 'back office' functions," Future Super chief executive Simon Sheikh said. "This acquisition will help us scale for the long term, enabling us to become one of the largest and most cost-effective ...

New role for Future Super co-founder

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021
... director and in 2020 she was named as co-founder and chief executive. She shared the chief executive position with Simon Sheikh, who co-founded Future Super with Adam Verwey in 2014. Prior to Future Super, Hunter was a management consultant at Bain & ...

Future Super chief executive to depart

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... director and in 2020 she was named as co-founder and chief executive. She shared the chief executive position with Simon Sheikh, who co-founded Future Super with Adam Verwey in 2014. Sheikh will now step back into the chief executive role solo. "Kirstin ...

Future Super ramps up direct equities

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... the Future Super team has taken the opportunity to add to our direct equities portfolio," Future Super co-founder Simon Sheikh said. "Future Super has traditionally used ETFs to gain low cost, highly liquid and well managed exposure to a range of assets ...

Superannuation fund appoints co-founder

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... Australia's strongest performing fund on the market in the past twelve months," Future Super co-founder and chief executive Simon Sheikh said. "Her passion for ethics and equality are infectious and will be key in propelling the Future Super story ...

Superannuation fund hits brakes on raise

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... the next financial year." Future Super managed about $470 million at end of June, 2019. It was set up in 2014 by Simon Sheikh, a former candidate for Australian Greens and a former leader of GetUp.

Thousands strike from work for climate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
... Sargon, Sustainable Australia Fund, BetaShares Capital and Fox & Hare. Chief executive and founder of Future Super Simon Sheikh said: "We came together with other Australian businesses to form Not Business as Usual because there's nothing usual about ...

Super fund launches renewable energy investment option

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... one which targets a 20% allocation to renewable energy and does not invest in fossil fuels. Future Super co-founder Simon Sheikh said Future Super Growth (Renewables Plus) empowers Australians to bypass political inertia and invest more of their super ...