Jim Minto is chief executive officer of TOWER Australia Group. He joined TOWER over 16 years ago when he was appointed managing director of Trustees Executors (the New Zealand Trust Company wholly owned by TOWER). From August 1998 through to November 2002, Minto held, at various times, the positions of managing director TOWER Trust, managing director of TOWER Managed Funds, managing director TOWER Health & Life and chief executive TOWER New Zealand. Minto has been a member of a number of boards ranging from schools to financial and charitable, and a member of various industry bodies including Trustee Corporations Association, Investment Funds Association (IFSA's predecessor), Health Funds Association and ISI. He was also chair the IAFP Taskforce on Regulation in the early 1990s.

The concept of "simple super" has significantly shifted the goal posts for consumers and for everyone in the industry. It has also helped eliminate some of the complexity which has built up around superannuation over the past 20 years. It ... Read more