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New chief investment officer for BUSSQ

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2022
Peter Laity has been appointed as BUSSQ's new chief investment officer. Laity, a veteran in the field, has previously served as head of equities at State Super and TCorp Investment Management, as well as head of investments at ESSSuper. More recently ...

BUSSQ appoints new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
The industry super fund will have a new chair from July 1. After four years at the head of the board, Paula Masters will step down as chair of BUSSQ mid-year. She is set to be replaced by Christopher Taylor who joined as a employer director in February. ...

BUSSQ board fully stocked again

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2022
BUSSQ has welcomed its former chief executive back to the fold as a board director. Linda Vickers, who retired as BUSSQ chief executive in 2020, has joined the fund's board as a member representative. She has over 40 years' experience in superannuation ...

Hostplus tops super ranks to March

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2022
With an 11.7% return for the year ending March 31, Hostplus' Balanced option ranked first in Rainmaker's latest super performance tables. This same Hostplus option ranks fifth over three years to March 31. Coming in second was Christian Super - My Ethical ...

Wayne Swan joins AIST board

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
The AIST has announced the dual board appointment of the former federal treasurer and deputy prime minister alongside AustralianSuper executive Sarah Adams. Swan, the chair of Cbus, and Adams, the group executive strategy, reputation & corporate affairs ...

Vale Tom McDonald

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2022
... in 1992 by the Keating Government. The building unions' fund, the prototype of industry super funds, was initially called BUSS (which merged with an allied fund AUST in 1994 to become Cbus). McDonald was a founding trustee director of BUSS. Within six ...

Thirty-eight super funds face sustainability issues: APRA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2022
APRA has named the superannuation funds it believes face immediate sustainability issues, with 38 of 78 funds declining on all metrics measured. APRA looked at the three sustainability metrics in the 2021 MySuper and Choice heatmaps; member accounts ...

HESTA leads trustee board diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
Superannuation fund HESTA has the highest number of women on its trustee board with nine females versus five males. An analysis of APRA's fund-level superannuation data as at June 2021 shows the $67 billion fund has tipped the gender imbalance as ...

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 ...

BUSSQ extends Link contract

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2021
The $5.6 billion industry fund has extended its existing contract with Link Group for further five years as fund administrator. BUSSQ said Link won the tender again due to its continued commitment to technology that in turn improves the fund's 60,000 ...