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JBWere announces three senior appointments

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
JBWere has made three senior appointments across its advice, products and markets, and operations teams in a bid to grow flexibility in an evolving business environment. Joining JBWere as general manager products and markets is ESSSuper board member ...

Retail funds still unable to match industry fund popularity

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
Industry superannuation funds remain unbeaten when it comes to member satisfaction with their financial performance, a Roy Morgan survey confirms. Industry funds have been ahead of retail funds every month since the Roy Morgan Single Source survey began ...

Energy Super names new head of investments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
Energy Super has appointed ESSSuper's William Graus to the newly-created role of general manager, investments. Graus joined Energy Super from ESSSuper, where he spent five years as senior investment officer. Prior to this he was the chief investment ...

Drastically limit number of default funds: Grattan CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
The government should limit the number of superannuation funds providing default super to around five if it wants to reduce fees, according to Grattan Institute chief executive John Daley. Speaking at a superannuation roundtable hosted by Bravura Solutions ...

PROFILE: Cbus chief executive David Atkin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
"An idyllic tropical life" is how David Atkin describes his childhood in Papua New Guinea. While his parents taught in a local school, he spent his days "wandering around the forest, being looked after by the locals, exploring every day, having a lot ...

Retail funds close member satisfaction gap

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
Industry super fund members are more satisfied with the financial performance of their funds than members of retail funds, but the gap is closing, according to a new survey released by Roy Morgan. The survey put industry funds in the top five places ...

HESTA and Cbus take AIST top awards

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013
... embraced the challenges of today's super funds and demonstrated leadership in taking the industry forward," Garcia said. ESSS Super, MTAA Super, AMIST Super, REST Industry Super, Equip and Christian Super also received awards from AIST.

Australian pension fund growth outstrips global average

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
Australian pension fund growth was twice the global average in 2012, according to a global survey of the world's 300 largest funds conducted by US newspaper Pensions & Investments and Towers Watson. While total assets of the world's largest 300 pension ...

State Super appoints head of equities

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... State Super has appointed Peter Laity as head of equities, a newly created role. Before joining State Super Laity was at ESSS for 11 years, most recently as head of investments. He is a 25-year veteran of the financial services industry with previous ...

Super fund returns dip back below double-digits

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
Super fund 12 month rolling returns have dipped back below double digits, but at 8.3% (31 October) are still twice the term deposit benchmark. Results of Rainmaker's just released SelectingSuper workplace default option index confirm the recovery in ...