Rollover

The Rollover

Rollover is a jaded hack who joined the staff of Super Review nearly two decades’ ago and never managed to summon the energy to leave. Known throughout the superannuation industry as a power-luncher and gossip, Rollover spends his time humouring fund managers, eavesdropping at conferences, dozing through briefings and looking for his next free meal.

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29 May 2019

Rumours abounded earlier this year that some industry funds may have ‘unwittingly’ invested in weapons traded to Saudi Arabia, with Rollover noting that more than one fun...

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29 May 2019

Ok, so Rollover will hold his hand up. He was utterly (and I do mean utterly!) wrong in his predictions about who would win the 18 May Federal Election....

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29 May 2019

Rollover’s mum used to tell him not to bite off more than he could comfortably chew, and your correspondent wonders whether the same advice applies to the group life spac...

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10 March 2019

If it’s March then it must be the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds, this year being held on Queensland’s Gold Coast....

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10 March 2019

Rollover notes that just a week after the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority had told a Parliamentary Committee that no fewer than 13 superannuation were exiting ...

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10 March 2019

Rollover offers his congratulations to Brett Clark and his team at TAL for successfully completing the acquisition of Suncorp’s life insurance business....

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9 December 2018

T’was the months before the election when all through the house; Not a Senator was stirring, not even a louse....

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9 December 2018

Rollover wishes his very best to industry stalwart and recently departed First State Super chief executive, Michael Dwyer....

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9 December 2018

Rollover was somewhat astonished to hear of all the senior executive departures from big retailing industry fund, REST and noted just how many other superannuation fund o...

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20 August 2018

If the opening day of the Royal Commission’s hearings into the superannuation sector were any guide, then most industry funds could afford to breathe just a little easier...

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