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Zurich chairman retires, replacement named

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... positions with ING. He is also chairman of Elanor Investors Group and Disability Sports Australia and is on the boards of Credit Union Australia and the National Blood Authority.

Privatisation backlash derails infra investing

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... leads to a conflict between trustees' responsibilities to fund members and the political agendas of their sponsoring trade union. Which, perhaps, explains why so few industry super funds were prepared to go on record to discuss the issue. REST Industry ...

Vale Mavis Robertson AM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... the pioneers of the Australian superannuation sector, has died. Robertson's career spanned more than six decades in the union movement and then in superannuation as fund secretary of BUS (Building Unions Superannuation) and AUST (Allied Unions Superannuation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... little higher despite European markets closing slightly off after disappointing bailout package talks between the European Union and Greece. At 0807 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 11 points at 5,833. Greece has rejected ...

Economists divided over Europe growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... State Street Global Advisors chief economist Christopher Probyn said. He added that it is not possible to have monetary union without fiscal union: "When they decided to do this crazy stupid thing called monetary union, they got what they could get. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... eurozone -- what is being dubbed a "Grexit". The country's new finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, will visit three European Union capitals next week to push the government's agenda for a renegotiated deal on its multi-billion-euro bailout, his office ...

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... attractive yield in a low return environment." Looking abroad will be another key trend in 2015. Lower valuations in the European Union and Japan are likely to attract long term focused investors, while "any stock exposed to the United States economy ...

Super modern awards anti-competitive: FSC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... executive Sally Loane said. "We urge the Government to increase competition by reforming the laws which enable concentration of union controlled industry funds in modern awards."

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... up the market to all MySuper products. In this cause, industry fund Cbus's recent woes in the Royal Commission into Trade Union Corruption and Governance - in which two Cbus employees were accused of perjury - will only strengthen the FSC's (and the ...

Royal commission must look at 'full picture': TWUSUPER CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
Incoming TWUSUPER chief executive Paul Sayer has questioned the motivation of the Royal Commission into Union Governance and Corruption, urging the commissioner to take a balanced view in his initial findings, which are due out on Monday. Just over ...