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Industry fund promotes for GM role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
A major industry superannuation fund has promoted from within to fill a vacant general manager position. Rest's head of operations David Madden has been promoted to general manager, administration solutions and governance. He replaces Kieran Varcoe ...

Rest GM to head BT platforms

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
... Kotsopoulos' departure in September last year. Kieran Varcoe will step into the role, joining BT from $55 billion industry fund Rest where he was general manager of administration solutions and governance for less than two years. Prior to that, Varcoe ...

HESTA awards tech mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
The $56 billion industry fund has appointed a cloud investment platform to support its in-house portfolio management. The super fund selected SimCorp's Dimension as a Service to consolidate its investment data into one central location including ...

Industry fund operations chief exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
The former chief operating officer of WA Super has left following the superannuation fund's merger with Aware Super. Paul Owen joined WA Super in 2006 and after seven years moved into the client services role, where he was responsible for managing financial ...

Super industry to fill China investment gap

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
Australia's superannuation industry said it is prepared to fill the gap for infrastructure investment after the Treasurer rejected a deal with a Chinese-owned entity on the grounds of national security. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg put an end to the $300 ...

Rice Warner weighs in on Your Future, Your Super

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... from a parent company with a strong capital position could be promoted without using member funds. Conversely, an industry fund can only use member funds for promotion (which might now be illegal in some cases). "We have argued in the past that all funds ...

Flexstone appoints head of ESG

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... new thinking on how to use responsible investment to benefit both our clients and company as a whole," she said. Industry fund Hostplus last year committed $100 million to Flexstone's Global Opportunities IV strateg y, which has about 40 co-investments ...

Tasplan says goodbye to lifecycle MySuper

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
After four years of offering its MySuper option as a lifecycle product, Tasplan plans to switch back to single strategy citing higher costs among the reasons. The $11.5 billion superannuation fund is set for a merger with the $12.6 billion MTAA Super ...

MTAA Super awards scholarships

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
The industry fund has awarded 15 scholarships to members and non-members to put towards further education in automotive and related industries. MTAA Super said the scholarships are worth up to $5000, with the total standing at $50,000 across 15 winners. ...

Hostplus axes manager

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
... Hostplus' core Australian equities managers since January 2003. But, in a notice to members, the $50 billion industry fund advised that following a recent strategic review of its investment portfolio and investment managers, Hostplus has decided ...