 Sally Loane Chief Executive Officer, Financial Services Council (at time of writing)
SALLY LOANE | FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020 It's fair to say that a number of our superannuation funds are looking forward to APRA's media release on 'heat map' ratings for super funds in the same way some school principals look forward to the annual media league table of HSC results. Read more SALLY LOANE | WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019 If 'lost' superannuation was tangible, the scene would resemble the wasteland of dead fish clogging our depleted Murray-Darling Basin. Read more SALLY LOANE | MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017 When a superannuation ad gets more than 145,000 views on the Betoota Advocate, the subversive cult digital publication which pumps out hilarious takedowns of everything from Schapelle Corby to the State of Origin, you know change is coming. Read more SALLY LOANE | FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017 The headwinds on the horizon are plain to see. Read more PAGE: 1 |
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