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Retirement Forum 2025

Tuesday 29 April 2025
12pm for a 12.30pm start - 2.30pm AEST

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About the event

Whether you’re travelling the world, pursuing your passion or spending more time with your loved ones, we have many ways to help you continue enjoying your retirement.

Join us for our Retirement Forum, a complimentary event designed exclusively for retired members. We know your goals and needs in retirement change over time. That's why we’d like to keep you updated on our innovative ideas and strategies.  

At the Retirement Forum you’ll hear from our experts on the direction of the fund, to help keep those financial confidence levels up. 

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In person

Clarendon Auditorium
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
1 Convention Centre Pl
South Wharf 

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Live broadcast

The Hostplus Retire Ready 2025 event will
also be broadcasted live online.

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AGENDA

Arrival and registration

12.00pm AEST

Welcome

12.30pm AEST

Bec Wilson 
Founder, Epic Retirement and Starts at 60

Fund insights into retirement

12.35pm AEST

Umberto Mecchi
Chief Member Officer, Hostplus

Umberto will provide an overview of the fund's retirement strategy and policies that affect members' retirement.

Panel

Retirement roundtable

12.50pm AEST

Facilitated by Bec Wilson

Panel:

Prabath Ekanayake CFP®, Certified Financial Planner, Hostplus
Nicole Kinnear, Executive Manager, Service Operations, Hostplus

The panel will cover important topics like tools to help navigate retirement, income risk and fund security.

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Invest for success in retirement

1.50pm AEST

Greg Clerk
Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Investment Strategy and Risk, Hostplus

Greg will provide a snapshot of the markets and offer his outlook for the short and longer-term.

Q&A

Q&A session

2.15pm AEST

Questions from the floor and online.

Closing remarks

2.25pm AEST

Bec Wilson 
Founder, Epic Retirement and Starts at 60

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Meet the speakers

Bec Wilson

Founder, Epic Retirement and Starts at 60
Bec Wilson is one of Australia’s most respected authorities on midlife and modern retirement. She’s the bestselling author of How to Have an Epic Retirement, the #1 bestselling retirement book in 2023 and 2024, the host of the Prime Time podcast, produced by 9 Podcasts and writes a weekly newsletter at epicretirement.net bringing together an enormous community of pre-retirees and retirees. Bec runs the enormously popular 6-week How to Have an Epic Retirement flagship course, is a frequent speaker at events, and provides retirement education for companies and super funds. She writes a widely-read weekly syndicated finance column for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and other Nine newspapers, and manages the vibrant Facebook group, The Epic Retirement Club with a rapidly growing global community. On a personal note, Bec is a mother of three teen and adult children, loves to travel, and is in her own Prime Time, dreaming of her epic retirement—one day! To get in touch visit epicretirement.com.au

Umberto Mecchi

Chief Member Officer, Hostplus
Umberto is a seasoned marketing and strategy professional with over 30 years' experience in senior marketing and strategic roles. His effective application of strategic marketing fundamentals has enabled him to create breakthrough marketing programs and brand campaigns for leading brands in Australia. Prior to joining Hostplus in 2004, Umberto worked with the ANZ Bank, National Mutual/AXA, and Zurich Financial Services in marketing and strategy roles. In 1999, he joined direct marketing agency trademarkDM as their Director of Strategy and worked on major campaigns for financial services brands including AXA Australia, GE Capital, Members Equity Bank, American Insurance Group (AIG), Hostplus, and Australia Unity Funds Management. In 2008, Umberto was awarded a FEAL Executive Education Scholarship and is now undertaking a Masters in Organisational Leadership at the Melbourne Business School. He also received the AIST Superannuation Marketing Award for Excellence and his marketing campaigns won the 2008 ASFA Communications Award and the AIST Gold Communication Award for Excellence in Member Reporting Communications. In 2017, Umberto was recognized for his marketing influence and excellence, coming in at 11th spot in the coveted CMO Top 50 list in Australia.

Prabath Ekanayake

CFP®, Certified Financial Planner, Hostplus
Prabath Ekanayake is a seasoned Certified Financial Planner with 19 years of experience in the financial planning industry. Having worked in boutique financial planning firms, banks, insurance brokers, and the industry fund space, Prabath brings a broad cross-section of experience to his advisory role. He has worked with clients across the wealth spectrum, from high net worth individuals managing their own self-managed super funds to age pensioners. Recently, Prabath has added aged care advice to his repertoire, helping retirees and their parents transition to the next stage of their lives. 

Nicole Kinnear

Executive Manager, Service Operations, Hostplus
Nicole was appointed to the position of Hostplus’ Executive Manager Service Operations in 2024 after joining Hostplus via the merger with Statewide Super in 2022. Her experience in superannuation has always centred on the member, with a particular concentration on member communications, member experience and policy and advocacy. In her current role with Hostplus Nicole has overarching responsibility for the member servicing, claims and communications functions, including the Service Plus Centres in Melbourne, Adelaide and Darwin. 

Greg Clerk

Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Investment Strategy and Risk
Greg’s primary responsibility is the development and implementation of the investment strategy. Greg worked previously at JANA, where he provided consulting and investment advice to superannuation funds (with the main fund being Hostplus). Within JANA, Greg held a variety of roles over time, including within the Quantitative Analytics, Information Technology and Custody teams. Greg holds a Ph.D. (University of Melbourne) in Theoretical Physics.