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First Super names new co-chair

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... a director on First Super's board for four years and was previously a chief executive of the Victorian Association of Forestry Industries. She is also a director of Skills Impact, and has been a director of the Australian Forest Products Association ...

NZ Super Fund posts decent full-year return

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... its active investments in timber and infrastructure. The fund's single largest investment, a 42% stake in New Zealand forestry business Kaingaroa Timberlands, increased in value by NZ$82 million to NZ$1.49 billion. The sovereign wealth fund, which is ...

EG partners with leading Japanese homebuilder

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2016
... Japanese homebuilder. Under the terms of the JV, Daiwa House Group, its Australian subsidiary Cosmos Australia and Sumitomo Forestry will acquire 75% of EG's Drummoyne development site, for $33 million. The 15,850sqm development site has a proposed scheme ...

Cbus Royal Commission findings impact industry

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016
... relationships with industry super funds. In his scathing final report, Commissioner Dyson Heydon said the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union's (CFMEU) heavy membership at industry super fund Cbus would have influenced three fund executives ...

Sunsuper foresees independent director shift

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... privatisation program which included the float of QR National, now known as Aurizon, the $600 million sale of Queensland's forestry plantations, the $2.3 billion sale of the Port of Brisbane, and the $1.8 billion sale of the Abbot Point Coal Terminal. ...

Cbus responds to Royal Commission allegations

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
... employees acted improperly by disclosing confidential personal information concerning Cbus members to the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU). "To ensure that this kind of behaviour cannot recur, Cbus has taken significant steps to ...

Pressure mounts on Cbus in Royal Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... members who were Lis-Con employees. Counsel Assisting allege Atkin agreed to provide the details because the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) was running a campaign to recover superannuation arrears for its members. Atkin has previously ...

Cbus chief executive answers Royal Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... flatly denied having any knowledge of the superannuation fund releasing members' personal information to the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU). Presenting as a witness at the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption ...

Infocus to provide advice to First Super members

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... Australia to meet with First Super members at their homes or workplaces. The $2.2 billion fund mostly caters for the forestry and timber products sector, so many of its members live in regional areas. "We wanted to help our members, no matter where they ...

Cbus executive denies perjury allegation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... Zanatta, had knowingly lied about her role in the improper release of member information to an official of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU). In a responding submission, Butera's solicitor denied this: "It is submitted generally ...