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First State Super and Health Super merger official

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
Today marks the official merge date between Health Super and First State Super, creating a $30 billion fund with more than 770,000 members. First State Super (FSS) said the merger has created Australia's third largest super fund. From Health Super's ...

Financial services honoured with Queen's favour

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... honours this year including advisers, super fund heads and regulatory figures. Michael Dwyer, chief executive of First State Super and Fund Executives Association Ltd (FEAL) founding chairman was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in recognition ...

Russell heads back to Canberra

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
Former Keating adviser and current State Super Trustee chair Don Russell is heading back to Canberra to run a commonwealth government department. Russell is also chair of the LUCRF industry fund investment committee and was formerly BNY Mellon Asset ...

Grant Samuel bags $800 million mandate

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... strategy was also seeing "very good inflows through platforms on a weekly basis." Other institutional clients include State Super Financial Services and Suncorp. GSFM's Australian equities partner Tribeca, in which it acquired an equity stake in 2008 ...

Super funds win merger tax relief

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... superannuation industry is in an era of consolidation. Media Super is looking at joining forces with a corporate fund, First State Super is merging with Health Super and Westscheme is marrying AustralianSuper to create a $40 billion behemoth. Vamos said ...

ASFA wants action on tax relief

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... superannuation industry is in an era of consolidation. Media Super is looking at joining forces with a corporate fund, First State Super is merging with Health Super and Westscheme is marrying AustralianSuper to create a $40 billion megafund. The tax ...

FSS and Health Super merger on track

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
First State Super and Health Super are on track to finalise their merger by June 30, creating one of the largest superannuation funds in Australia. Michael Dwyer, chief executive of First State Super, said the merger was progressing smoothly with 19 ...

State Super FS appoints MD

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
State Super Financial Services (SSFS) has named Deloitte Consulting partner, Michael Monaghan, as new managing director with Peter McKillop retiring from the position in May. While currently at Deloitte, Monaghan's previous experience includes chief ...

Virgin Money launches direct life insurance product

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... become the leading group insurer in Australia after winning mandates that include mega funds AustralianSuper and First State Super in NSW. The $2.31 starting price matches the average premium for standard default cover for not-for-profit super fund group ...

Asset Super mulls merger

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... retention and growth strategies. The superannuation sector has been abuzz with M&A activity. Two months ago, First State Super and Health Super announced a merger to create a $28 billion-plus fund. Meanwhile, NGS Super and Cuesuper are set to merge by ...