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Commonwealth trustee reforms passes Senate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
Legislation consolidating the trustee arrangements of the Commonwealth's main military and civilian superannuation schemes into a single entity passed the Senate this week. In a statement, the government said the new structure will modernise commonwealth ...

Review after Military Super changes mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
Military Super's switch to Towers Watson as principle investment consultant results in a rating review for SCM Wholesale Absolute Australian Equities Fund. Last month, the government fund appointed Towers Watson as principal investment consultant in ...

New investment consultant for MilitarySuper

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
Towers Watson has been appointed as the principal investment consultant for the Military Superannuation and Benefits Scheme ('MilitarySuper'). "We welcome Towers Watson as a new service provider to MilitarySuper and look forward to their contribution ...

Property recovery reignites super fund war

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... funds now back in front by 2 percentage points. Changing investment fortunes has seen funds such as MTAA Super, Military Super and Westscheme climb 15 or more places, already putting them in the zone of major retail platforms, said Rainmaker. Rainmaker ...

AGEST appoints new CEO

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... and fund trustee Cath Bowtell as chief executive, replacing Michael Seton who left last month to become CEO of Military Super. Bowtell, has a law degree and has been a superannuation trustee for over ten years, with five years on the board of AGEST until ...

Military Super CEO resigns, AGEST chief takes over

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... Watson's resignation. Seton will begin his new role on Friday, 1 October. He replaces Paul Watson, who took on the Military Super chief executive portfolio two years ago. Seton spent eight years as chief executive of AGEST, an industry super fund with ...

Delays for Military Super merger

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
The merger of the Military Super board, the Defence Force Retirement & Benefits Scheme Authority, and the ARIA Board will have to wait as the Senate did not get a chance to vote on the bill prior to the recess. Military Super noted in a web update that ...

Cosgrove and McCullagh nominated to CSC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
General Peter Cosgrove and former Military Super chief executive John McCullagh have been nominated as member representative directors for the Government's proposed Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation. Both Cosgrove and McCullagh were nominated ...

Military Super reforms under senate scrutiny

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... the senate on these bills. Among the reforms suggested by the Rudd Government are the merger between civilian and military super scheme management into one new authority. There will also be a 10-person board made up of three trade union and two defence ...

ComSuper faces executive and admin reforms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
Government superannuation schemes have not escaped ongoing governance reviews, with the schemes' administrator ComSuper mandated to outsource some of its work to cut taxpayer bill and the 'Commissioner for Superannuation' role dropped in favour of a ...