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Industry fund appoints board director

KANIKA SOOD | MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019

... appointed to its board as a long-standing director retires after more than 25 years. Robyn Burns has joined the board of First Super. She will replace First Super veteran Allan Stewart who plans to stand down on June 30. Burns works in management at ...

New directors join Frontier Advisors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR | THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019

... benefit of our clients and their beneficiaries." Frontier has four shareholders - AustralianSuper, Cbus, HESTA and FIRST Super - and more than $320 billion in assets under advice.

Poor equities performance sees MySuper suffer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019

... return for single strategies over the 12 months to November 2018 was 2%. The top five performers in this category were First Super, Media Super, NGS Super, Statewide Super and Hostplus. Life cycle products saw a median return of 1%, with the top five ...

Superannuation a mystery to students: survey

KANIKA SOOD | THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019

... account. Student Super polled 3, 566 students nationally in October to arrive at the results. It has just launched the first super fund designed specifically for students, after announcing it in March last year. "It was an online survey conducted by ...

MetLife Australia wins tech award

KANIKA SOOD | TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019

... for projects. The ACORD award comes on the back of MetLife's re-release of its e-claims platform in August. The first super fund to sign up was Statewide Super, allowing its 140,000 members to lodge and track insurance claims digitally. MetLife is ...

Super funds edge towards a flat 2018

DARREN SNYDER | THURSDAY, 27 DEC 2018

... names at the top of the MySuper/Default performance tables when it mattered. In the 12 months to 31 October 2018, the First Super Employer - Balanced option came out on top, returning 8.1%. Next was Media Super - Balanced and Statewide Super - MySuper ...

Super assets hit new record

STEPHEN FAY, DARREN SNYDER, KARREN VERGARA | THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2018

... past five years. "The continued outperformance shows it is never too late to consider an industry fund," Dean said. First Super chief executive Bill Watson added to the conversation, attacking a myth that so-called 'sub scale' funds are somehow unsustainable. ...

Best-in-show list addresses insurance gaps

KARREN VERGARA | FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018

... constantly monitors to ensure it is providing insurance with little or no value, he said. AustralianSuper was the first super fund to offer members under 25 the ability to opt-in to insurance.

First Super to vote against AMP board

ALEX BURKE | FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018

... recommendation from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), triggered by findings from the Royal Commission, First Super said it would vote against the re-election of AMP's board at the upcoming annual general meeting. First Super ...

First Super appoints board member

DARREN SNYDER | THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017

First Super recently appointed a Djab Wurrung elder and indigenous leader as an independent director to its board. Joining the $2.6 billion fund's board from September is Tim Chatfield. He is currently the chief executive of a successful Aboriginal ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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