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Cbus stalwarts retire, union leader returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2022
Cbus Super board directors Anne Donnellan and Frank O'Grady are set to step down, while a retiring union national secretary will return to the fund. Donnellan will be replaced by AMWU national legal coordinator Abha Devasia, while retiring CFMEU ...

New board directors at FEAL

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2022
Aware Super's Deanne Stewart and HESTA's Lisa Samuels have joined the board of the Fund Executives Association Ltd (FEAL). The appointments come as former Spirit Super chief executive Leeanne Turner steps down after seven years. Stewart was named FEAL's ...

GESB appoints chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
... helping oversee the strategic direction and management of GESB's portfolio of more than $36 billion. All GESB board directors are non-executive directors, appointed for a maximum of five years and eligible for reappointment. Western Australia premier ...

Actuaries Institute devises director skills checklist

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2021
A new paper from the Actuaries Institute discusses the key skills and experience board directors for financial services companies should have going forward, including an argument that the chair should always be a former chief executive. Former Actuaries ...

TWUSUPER cans merger plans

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021
... merger looked "promising". Hutchison resigned on September 9 and was quickly followed by several of the fund's board directors, including the chair.

Mercer names super services leader

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2021
Mercer has appointed a new superannuation services leader to replace Jo-Anne Bloch. Claire Ross has been named superannuation services leader for Australia. She leaves her role as Mercer UK's senior partner and chief operating officer for Asia, the ...

Mercer superannuation executive resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021
A long-serving Mercer superannuation executive has left the firm to focus on board directorships. Jo-Anne Bloch was most recently a senior partner and head of superannuation services at Mercer, a role she held for less than a year. In her early years ...

FEAL welcomes new board directors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
The chief executives of Funds SA and BUSSQ have joined the board of the Fund Executives Association Ltd, replacing two long-serving directors. Effective July 1, Funds SA chief executive Jo Townsend and BUSSQ chief Damian Wills are now directors on the ...

Catholic, Equip SFT to see Fairley exit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
... the obligations of Your Future, Your Super, something that will help is the skills matrix it uses to select its board directors. Seven years ago, Fairley led the Equip board in determining what skills existing directors had and what skills were required ...

Sunsuper, QSuper confirm merger will go ahead

KARREN VERGARA, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
Sunsuper and QSuper will merge later this year, with the two funds naming the key executives and board directors to lead the $200 billion entity. The two funds have signed a Heads of Agreement to merge by September this year, a decision that is supported ...