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HESTA to lower insurance fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
HESTA it will reduce fees for insured members on their current levels of cover after re-appointing AIA Australia as its insurance partner. HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey said the renewed partnership demonstrated the fund's commitment to providing ...

HESTA snags Equip Super risk chief

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025
HESTA has named its new chief of risk, recruiting from Equip Super. Natalie Alford will join HESTA as chief risk officer on November 3 after an eight-year tenure at Equip Super as chief risk officer. At HESTA, Alford will support the group's risk ownership ...

HESTA calls for reforms to help women in retirement

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
Women beginning their careers in 2025 with a 12% super guarantee (SG) rate in place could have as much as $400,000 more in retirement, new HESTA modelling suggests. The modelling showed women representative of the average HESTA member were projected ...

HESTA returns 10.18% to members

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
HESTA's MySuper Balanced Growth option has delivered 10.18% for the 2024/25 financial year, with the fund crediting the performance of listed equities and prudent management of market volatility for the result. The outcome represents the third consecutive ...

HESTA moves risk chief to advisory role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
HESTA chief risk officer Andrew Major has moved into a newly created advisory role to work with the fund's investment leadership on strategy. The transition represents a natural evolution for Major, who before joining HESTA's risk division in ...

HESTA turns the lights back on after service shutdown

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
HESTA has completed the transition of its member administration services to GROW Inc, restoring online services after a seven-week disruption to transactions and app access. HESTA, which has over one million members, said this marked the end of one ...

HESTA sells out of MinRes after failed engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
HESTA divested its remaining shareholding in Mineral Resources (MinRes) following the resignation of the miner's entire ethics and governance committee just six months after it was established. The $89 billion fund put MinRes on watch in October last ...

Pendal's Blayney lands at HESTA

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
HESTA has made two new senior hires including a general manager of dynamic asset allocation and a general manager of information security. Former Pendal Group's head of multi-asset Michael Blayney will take on the former role with Nick Catherall ...

Almost half of HESTA members retire involuntarily

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025
Almost half (47%) of HESTA members retire involuntarily, according to new research commissioned by the super fund. The research - prepared by Evolved Thinking - surveyed more than 1800 pre-retirement health, aged care and community services (HACS) workers ...

HESTA red flags MinRes for governance failures

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2024
HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey has said the super fund has been engaging directly with MinRes regarding its recent governance failures and "remains disappointed" with the company's responses. "Our concerns include that the managing director's ...