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QIC appoints chief investment officer

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... strategy has enabled the Queensland government to become one of the few in the world to operate a fully funded defined benefit scheme," Hill said of her appointment. "This scheme, coupled with a number of state-based superannuation funds in Queensland ...

Qantas Super introduces passive option, drops fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
... investment option to members tomorrow, while also reducing administration fees and the amount it contributes to its defined benefit pool. From tomorrow, Qantas Super members will be able to invest their retirement savings in a new indexed option, Thrifty. ...

CalPERS adds chief equity officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021
... Trust Company. CalPERS currently oversees the retirement savings of about two billion members. It is the largest defined benefit scheme in the US and its total market value currently sits at about $615 billion.

BlackRock wins monumental mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... of retirement savings to date, BlackRock has won the first external investment mandate for two of the largest defined benefit schemes in the UK. BlackRock will be the outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) for $39.9 billion (£21.5 billion) of ...

State Super rejigs defensives

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
... Super manages about $42 billion in assets, of which about 20% is in defined contribution schemes while 80% is in defined benefit schemes. The defined contribution portfolio of about $8 billion, forgoes defining allocation by asset buckets in favour of ...

Retirees freed from legacy products

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... Loane said. Flexi-pension products offered by any provider and lifetime products offered by large APRA-regulated defined benefit schemes or public defined benefit will not be included in the product conversion. In addition, legacy life insurance products ...

TAL fund in SFT

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... was recently the beneficiary of another successor fund transfer when the Factory Mutual Insurance Company Super defined benefit fund moved members to Mercer Super Trust.

WTW launches working group

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... "Whilst that structure has performed well over this period, we are increasingly seeing capital moving away from defined benefit pension schemes into defined contribution, so there is a need to innovate in order to identify a structure that enables a ...

ATO seeks IT contractors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation requested tenders from interested companies for a core registry platform for its defined benefit schemes that will replace its ageing systems.

Defined benefit fund in SFT

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
A defined benefit fund with $77 million in funds under management is completing a successor fund transfer to a Mercer subplan. Factory Mutual Insurance Company Superannuation (FMIC) members and assets will be transferred from the existing fund to a ...