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Aware Super unaware of members with disabilities

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
First State Super's planned rebrand to Aware Super last week ran into trouble when the fund failed to disseminate the information in formats accessible to all members. A First State Super member, who has a hearing impairment, wrote to the fund's ...

Merged First State Super reveals new brand

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... dropped from September. Meanwhile VicSuper's brand name will be retained for the interim. Both First State Super and StatePlus brand names will be replaced by "Aware Super". The VicSuper brand name will be retained and soon-to-be Aware Super will ...

First State Super and WA Super in merger talks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... default fund for local government employees in Western Australia. First State Super and its financial planning business StatePlus has had a presence in WA for many years with nearly 8000 members and clients in the State. The merger would see the combined ...

Midwinter expands advice software business

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... Midwinter last month as the new client services lead, heading up the customer support team. Murr joins Midwinter from StatePlus where she was most recently a financial adviser. Midwinter said Murr's financial advice and client services background will ...

Most complained about super funds revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020
... complaints per 100,000 members. This was followed by Mercy Super, State Super Financial Services Australia (known as StatePlus), Mercer Super Trust and Media Super. AMP comes in at sixth, while the rest of the top 10 includes Suncorp Super, Zurich, Qantas ...

Wealth giants shrink advertising budgets

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... FY18/19, down significantly from the over $6 million that it shelled out for the four years prior. Superannuation fund Stateplus spent less than $600,000 in FY19 on developing and publishing its campaigns. Three years ago, for FY17, this spend was $1.9 ...

Masterfunds up $26 billion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
... marginal 0.5%. However, Plan For Life said these results were after the once-off transfer of $18.6 billion worth of StatePlus Masterfund business to First State Super, a public sector super fund, adjusted for this the underlying annual and quarterly ...

$3.3 billion fall in retail managed funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
The once-off transfer of StatePlus' Master Fund businesses worth $18.6 billion out of retail funds to First State Super has had a significant impact on the retail market, according to Plan For Life Actuaries. Plan For Life revealed overall retail managed ...

Integration of super advice business completes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
The integration of StatePlus into $77 billion industry fund First State Super is being tied up. The ASIC Financial Adviser Register showed hundreds of StatePlus financial advisers as 'ceased' earlier this week. This was an administrative action as StatePlus ...

First State Super announces key appointments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2019
... Graeme Arnott who was reappointed deputy chief executive of First State Super in April this year after the integration of StatePlus. Chun will join from Colonial First State where he is currently general manager, strategy and transformation and general ...