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Independent directors not the silver bullet answer, super fund chairs

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
... individually perceived, which I find incredibly valuable, because it has actually changed behaviours." Chris Cuffe, chair at UniSuper agreed that a regular process was required at board level, where directors assessed each other's performance. "Particularly ...

Former BlackRock head joins UniSuper

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
Former head of fundamental Australian equities for BlackRock, Mark Himpoo, has joined UniSuper as a senior manager of equities as the super fund continues its in-house investment strategy. With a long career in Australian equities, Himpoo was with BlackRock ...

AustralianSuper creates head of equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... portfolio and models to determine what is the best way to extract additional value. Financial Standard reported recently that UniSuper had followed a similar course. Peter Curtis, senior manager of investments at AustralianSuper, also told Financial ...

UniSuper chief wins exec of the year award

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
UniSuper's Terry McCredden won the Fund Executives Association's superannuation executive of the year award in Melbourne last night. The tenth annual executive of the year award was presented in partnership with AMP Capital, rewarding leadership, innovation ...

UniSuper nominates Bloomberg as asset manager

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
UniSuper announced its selection of Bloomberg as partner in its internal management of its Australian equities portfolio with more super funds following suit. In June last year, UniSuper moved its equities management in-house and away from fund managers ...

UniSuper freshens up board and investment committee

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
UniSuper has a new chairman in place and has also re-jigged its board and investment committee with a new appointment on each. Chris Cuffe took the reins as chairman of the board last week, replacing the outgoing Elizabeth Bryan, who has received high ...

UniSuper keen to boost after-tax returns

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
UniSuper is looking to increase member returns by appointing GBST to provide after-tax benchmarking solutions to assess fund manager performance. The $28 billion fund said that the Cooper review had made the case for super funds to implement after-tax ...

Energy Super joins $50bn admin platform

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... Independent Fund Administrators and Advisers (IFAA) Acurity administration platform, which boasts QSuper, Telstra Super, and UniSuper as clients. Acurity, which now manages over 2.5 million superannuation members and over 50 billion dollars in funds ...

Charter Hall lands $266m Woolworths portfolio

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... launched its property securities fund as a separately managed account (SMA) as well as a managed fund. Additionally, UniSuper purchased securities from Charter Hall Retail REIT, backed by a $737 million collateral pool of shopping centers and superma ...

UniSuper to shed mandates

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Higher education superannuation fund UniSuper has topped the league tables for holding the most mandates in 2010 according to Rainmaker's latest Mandate Chaser report. But that is a bad thing, said John Pearce, chief investment officer of UniSuper ...