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Sunsuper welcomes new board directors

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... Goodey also joins the Sunsuper board as a director. Goodey is currently the chief financial officer for the Australian Workers Union in Queensland, and formerly served as a finance and compliance officer for the Australian Services Union. Sunsuper chair ...

La Trobe, State Super donate to bushfire appeal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... loss as a result of these devastating fires." "We also express our gratitude to the tireless volunteers and emergency workers who are supporting our communities." State Super, the $44 billion super fund for many public sector employees in New South Wales ...

Industry fund publicly shames investment adviser

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2019
... heavy lifting in warehouses and subsequently miscarrying. This year, the company has been battling a class action from workers in XPO's trucking service who claim the company violated California labour laws by denying them minimum wage, overtime ...

FSC hails super choice amendments

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... introducing amendments to superannuation laws. The introduction to parliament of amendments to superannuation laws to allow workers in new enterprise agreements to choose their own superannuation fund have been hailed by the Financial Services Council ...

Mental health costs insurers $750m per year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... willingness to talk about and seek help earlier. "What that has translating to is an increase in the number of claims; workers compensation as well as life insurers are both experiencing an up-tick in the number of mental illness related claims." SuperFriends' ...

Cbus enters corporate super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
... categories to suit the risks of their job. Members are defaulted into the "light manual" category which is intended for those workers who are sometimes onsite, like a site supervisor or project manager. There is also a "professional" category for accountants ...

The cost of mental illness

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
... messages for every employer. "We've got to realise that the vast majority of people living with mental health conditions are workers," she said.

Industry fund offers bonus on income streams

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2019
... retire with adequate retirement savings, while the other 30% are not. The fund's member base of primarily construction workers faces many challenges in retirement: more than half don't work across the year, they are more susceptible to health ...

Zurich secures mandate from $8b super fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... all industries, from right across Australia. This means our insurance products need to be flexible enough to cater to workers in lower-risk occupations." Tim Bailey, Zurich Life and Investments chief executive said Zurich was now a large, multi-channel ...

Superannuation gets a classroom

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... members. The centre opened in Adelaide yesterday. This comes after Industry Super Australia revealed South Australian workers are having $283 million in super stolen from them every year by employers. Statwide chief executive Tony D'Alessandro said ...