Corporate Sponsors

As the principal advocate and peak representative body for the not-for-profit superannuation sector, AIST plays a key role in policy development and is a leading provider of research.

AIST provides professional training, consulting services and support for trustees and fund staff to help them meet the challenges of managing superannuation funds and advancing the interests of their fund members. Each year, AIST hosts the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF), in addition to numerous other industry conferences and events.

The Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Group was formed in November 2007 as a result of the merger between Bendigo Bank and Adelaide Bank. A publicly listed company, the group is owned by more than 82,000 shareholders.

Under the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank umbrella, the various parts of our business operate under four distinct brands.  Our retail arm, Bendigo Bank, provides banking and wealth management services to individual and small to medium businesses.

Bendigo Bank is represented in all states and territories with almost 900 outlets, including more than 190 company-owned branches, 275 locally-owned Community Bank^® branches, 90 agencies and 1900 ATMs.  Bendigo Bank continues its tradition of adding value for customers through quality personal service and a philosophy of giving back to those communities in which we operate.

Through Adelaide Bank, the group operates a substantial wholesale banking business, providing mortgages to a large number of Australians via a network of brokers and mortgage managers. In addition, Adelaide Portfolio Lending funds aged care and third party credit providers.

In the wealth management area, the group is represented by Sandhurst Trustees, our trustee company and funds manager; margin lender Leveraged Equities; Oxford Funding, Bendigo Financial Planning and debenture company, Victorian Securities.

The group also participates in a range of joint ventures, including Rural Bank and Community Sector Banking (with a consortium of 20 partners from the not-for-profit sector).  Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has assets under management of more than $52.1 billion and market capitalisation of around $3.3 billion. 

Austock Group is a publicly-listed, diversified investment and financial services group. With high staff share ownership, the company remains one of the largest independent financial services firms in Australia. The core of Austock’s business model is to invest in early stage financial services businesses, leveraging a highly tax-effective structure.

Founded in 1991 as a private stockbroking business, Austock has expanded over the past 20 years to now provide Securities, Corporate Finance, Property Funds Management and Life Investments to individuals, corporates and institutions around the world.

Mutual Limited specialises in managing and advising on funds for wholesale clients that are prudentially supervised, are conservative or who operate subject to regulated investment regimes. Mutual commenced operations in 1991 as a division of Austock Brokers Pty Ltd. Its first mandate was Investment Adviser and Manager for a Group of not for profit organisations. After a successful 19 years Mutual is still the Investment Manager for members (or the successors) of that Group.

In May 2009, current Management purchased the business from Austock Group and renamed it Mutual Limited. At that time, FUM&A was $300 million; Mutual now has over $820 million in FUM&A.　Mutual manages: Short Term Securities, Fixed Interest, Equities and Hybrids and Other Managers.

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Most notably, we are known as an independent provider of credit ratings. In 2010 S&P issued 162,418 new and 556,872 revised ratings.  Currently, we rate more than US$32 trillion in outstanding debt.

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Moreover, Standard & Poor’s independent equity research business is among the world’s leading providers of independent investment information, offering fundamental coverage on approximately 1,600 stocks. We are also a leader in mutual fund information and analysis.