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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20 Aug

Rollover notes that the still somewhat new chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, James Shipton, chose the recent Financial Services Council Le...

20 Aug

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...

06 Jul

Rollover doesn’t go much for game-playing, unless that game involves 13 clubs, a dozen balls and 18 holes, but he nonetheless admires the Financial Services Council’s app...

06 Jul

Working as he does, cheek by jowl with the staffers at Money Management, Rollover can report that financial planners do not appear to have seriously noted the lower profi...

06 Jul

In the days when Rollover strolled the corridors of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery he noted the manner in which certain Parliamentarians sought to use the commit...

17 May

It was once the industry funds versus retail fund battle that captured media attention in the superannuation industry, but Rollover senses that a new enmity has arisen – ...

17 May

While many people believe industry superannuation fund executives enjoyed the squirming of bank and AMP limited executives as they fronted the Royal Commission last month...

17 May

Rollover knows that the chief executive officer vacancy at NGS Super attracted a lot of interest from superannuation fund executives and others who have found themselves ...

08 Mar

Rollover sends his sympathies to all those industry superannuation fund chief executives who opened their mail in mid-December only to discover that it was not a Christma...

08 Mar

Rollover, being a journalist, would never describe himself as being highly numerate and so acknowledges his deep suspicion of bean-counters and their ilk....

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