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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21 Feb

For as long as Rollover can remember, some sections of the media have been writing about superannuation being a tax rort for high income earners. In terms of anti-superan...

01 Nov

You know there’s a stoush looming on the future of superannuation in Australia when former Prime Minister and Treasurer, Paul Keating weighs in and calls a spade a bleedi...

01 Nov

Rollover has a certain amount of sympathy for Colonial First State and the other superannuation fund trustees who have acted on Adviser Service Fees in the wake of receiv...

01 Nov

Rollover wishes to offer his heartiest congratulations to the teams at industry funds HESTA and Cbus for doing so well in the recent Money Management and Super Reivew Wom...

30 Aug

Rollover feels a certain amount of sympathy for Deloitte’s superannuation partner, Russell Mason who candidly declared to Super Review's recent Future of Super Conference...

30 Aug

Rollover does enjoy a good intellectual joust but he also knows when he is out of his league....

30 Aug

Rollover was greatly pleased to hear unanimity among panellists at the Future of Super Conference that retail super funds would survive despite vicissitudes visited on th...

08 Jul

Given that APRA is currently in the courts seeking to prosecute IOOF over the manner in which it used a member reserve, Rollover was a little startled by the regulator’s ...

08 Jul

Having worked both sides of the divide, Rollover was pleased to see the new assistant minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Technology, Senator Ja...

08 Jul

In Rollover’s experience there would be few funds more suited to a merger than Hostplus and Club Super, and not just because they cover what could be broadly termed the h...

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