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• Senate tick for Medicare super clearing house

  Created: Monday, 24 May 2010 23:00 Author: Philippa Yelland

  The passing of the free Medicare clearing house legislation has been hailed by some super industry bodies and decried by private clearing houses and the Federal Opposition. ...

• RBC Dexia's Bonhote opts for tree-change

  Created: Monday, 24 May 2010 23:00 Author: Simon Mumme

    Michael Bonhote RBC Dexia Investor Services’ domestic head of sales and client relationships, Michael Bonhote, will end his tenure with the custodian, and the financial services industry, this week. ...

• Gordon cuts short retirement for top role

  Created: Monday, 24 May 2010 23:00 Author: Greg Bright

  One of Australia's expatriate success stories, Michael Gordon, has come out of a brief retirement to take the helm of the European equities arm of a big global manager. ...

• Mercer stiffens investments arms

  Created: Monday, 24 May 2010 23:00 Author: Philippa Yelland

  Mercer is stiffening its investments arms with the appointment of a market business leader in Australia and a CIO for alt-alpha strategies in the UK.   ...

• GESB adds two to investment team

  Created: Monday, 24 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  GESB, the $10.4 billion WA-based public sector fund, has added two people to its investment team. ...

• City Super hands reins to acting CEO

  Created: Monday, 24 May 2010 23:00 Author: Philippa Yelland

  City Super, the $1.4 billion Brisbane City Council fund, has appointed its CEO who has been acting in the position since October last year. ...

• Rollover times set to plummet

  Created: Monday, 24 May 2010 23:00 Author: Philippa Yelland

  The time taken for rollovers and contributions is set to drop from up to one month down to less than three days due to an e-commerce pilot with the Industry Funds Forum and Cuscal. ...

• Sunsuper snaps up secondary property deal

  Created: Monday, 24 May 2010 23:00 Author: Simon Mumme

  Sunsuper was one of many investors that bought into a $500 million direct property secondaries offering from another domestic institution in the past week and a half. ...

• We take it all back: Russell re-insources super admin from IBM

  Created: Monday, 24 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  Russell Investments has dramatically reversed its 2006 decision to outsource administration of its 220,000 super member accounts to IBM. ...

• Bonds back on the menu for Aussie funds

  Created: Monday, 24 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  Australian super funds' relatively low exposure to bonds is set to rise, as funds including HESTA reassess the role that assets like hedge fund-of-funds have previously played in their 'defensive' portfolios. ...

• One down, one to go for NAB in Queensland

  Created: Monday, 17 May 2010 23:00 Author: Greg Bright

  NAB Asset Servicing faces its second big Queensland tender decision within a month now, following its appointment as QSuper’s first master custodian. ...

• IE Group names panel banks for super cash service

  Created: Monday, 17 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  The four major banks, as well as the super funds-owned ME Bank and fund manager Goldman Sachs JBWere’s cash trust, have been appointed to the initial panel of the investment efficiency management firm IE Group. ...

• Prime Super reviews admin, eyes asset consulting

  Created: Monday, 17 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  Prime Super, the $1 billion, 150,000-member super fund for rural workers, will review its member administration arrangements, and is also making some fundamental changes to the 'two portfolio' approach championed by its asset consultant, Access Capital Ad...

• Aust Unity hires new insto sales head from rival manager

  Created: Monday, 17 May 2010 23:00 Author: Simon Mumme

  Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has recruited from a competing boutique manager, Bennelong Funds Management, for its new head of institutional sales. ...

• Giant corporate fund gets first CIO

  Created: Monday, 17 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  The $6 billion Officers Superannuation Fund for Commonwealth Bank employees has appointed its first chief investment officer, as chairperson Neal Cochrane continues his search for an inaugral chief executive officer at the 64,000-member fund. ...

• One in five Aussies can't name their super fund

  Created: Monday, 17 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  Only around 16 per cent of Australians are actively involved in the management of their super, and more than one in five can't even name a super fund of which they're a member, according to national research commissioned by GESB, the WA public sector fund...

• Vision Super CEO to retire on merger eve

  Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  The chief executive officer of Vision Super intends to officially retire the day before the fund merges with Equipsuper, an event scheduled for July 1, 2013. ...

• JANA rounds out long/short fund with Tribeca mandate

  Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 Author: Greg Bright

  JANA Investment Consulting has appointed the alpha extension fund of Tribeca Investment Partners to one of its implemented consulting multi-manager funds, with a mandate of more than $100 million. ...

• New master for State Super Financial Services' $8bn

  Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 Author: Michael Bailey

  State Super Financial Services, which advises on $8.3 billion predominantly on behalf of retired NSW public servants, has drawn from the senior ranks of an asset consultant for its new chief investment officer. ...

• Series' pan-Asia boutique staffs up for debt strategy

  Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 23:00 Author: Simon Mumme

  Eight Investment Partners, the pan-Asia boutique, has appointed an executive director to implement a credit capability to be run alongside Kerry Series’ equity strategy. ...