Keeping flies out of the ointment

17 May 2018

| By Rollover |

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 with time on their hands this year.

Thus, the fund’s announcement that it would be deferring finding a replacement for Anthony Rodwell-Ball until after NGS completes its merger with QIEC Super – something unlikely to be finalised much before Christmas – has caused at least two high profile candidates to brush off their CVs and return to the job-hunting drawing board.

Teachers tend to be terribly sensible creatures and, as Rollover hears it, the merger process with QEIC has been moving along so smoothly that it was thought unwise to risk the injection of a new chief executive who might wish to put his/her own stamp on the process.

All of which suggests that the field of candidates for the CEO job is likely to look both very much larger and very much different to that which it did in April.

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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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