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To opt in or out of life insurance: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
... life and disability insurance coverage when signing up to a super fund. Another 21% also agreed with this move. AustralianSuper recently became the first major superannuation fund to give members under 25-years-old the option to sign up to life insurance ...

The trillion dollar pension fund

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
... Fund, is expected to grow to $200 billion over the next decade. Meanwhile, Australia's largest superannuation fund AustralianSuper currently holds $120 billion under management.

AustralianSuper moves to opt-in insurance

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
AustralianSuper has become the first major superannuation fund to make insurance opt-in for younger members in a bid to stop account erosion. Members of the industry fund who are under 25 when they join up will now be asked to "opt-in" to insurance ...

Super fund property manager leads global sustainability ranking

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... of commercial, retail, industrial and residential property in Australia. The company was co-founded in 1994 by AustralianSuper, Cbus and HESTA, and now has 31 institutional investors including industry superannuation funds and public sector super and ...

First Super makes board appointment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... September. McDine replaces outgoing director Dave Kirner as an employee representative. McDine is a former director at AustralianSuper and Cbus, a former executive member of the ACTU, and former National Secretary of the Australian Workers Union. First ...

Aussie super funds increase world ranking

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... included in the Willis Towers Watson Global 300 (US$ millions) Rank Fund Total Assets 32 Future Fund $92,046 36 AustralianSuper $78,135 72 QSuper $48,870 90 First State Super $42,743 92 UniSuper $39,788 125 REST $31,499 133 State Super $30,057 140 Sunsuper ...

Financial services leaders push for marriage equality

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... anticipated postal survey on same-sex marriage. Financial services businesses ranging from superannuation funds AustralianSuper and HESTA, to banking institutions CBA and Westpac, and investment managers BT Financial Group and StateStreet have signed ...

UniSuper brings investment option in-house

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... under 45 investment specialists. The shift towards greater in-house asset management follows an announcement by AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk that the fund has flagged expanding the internal investment team to manage more than half of its ...

Super funds must address climate risk: Market Forces

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
... evidence that they have considered climate risk. These included large retail funds AMP and BTFG and industry funds AustralianSuper, Cbus, VicSuper, UniSuper, Sunsuper and HESTA. Overall, retail funds represent the largest proportion of assets under management ...

Industry fund makes tech play to combat unpaid super

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... billion under management, is hoping to tackle the problem of unpaid super with a mobile application upgrade. The AustralianSuper app, which first launched in 2015, will allow members to receive alerts so they know when the latest superannuation payments ...