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Gender balance is smart economics: CEW

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
... To fix this, Frontier has a recruitment and graduate program that purposely de-identifies CVs and ensures equal representation of male and female candidates at the outset. The group also determines remuneration differently. "To overcome historical disadvantage ...

Super fund board renewals need work: APRA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2022
... mix on the board isn't always as easy as it could be. This I want to make very clear isn't an attack on the equal representation model. We see high performing boards in this model. But existing constitutions and board renewal policies may be restrictive. ...

Investors take charge in C-suite equality

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... leadership. "It's concerning progress has been so slow, and at this rate it will be another 80 years before we see equal representation of men and women at CEO level2 - and similarly in executive leadership - unless action is taken now," she said. Investors ...

Cbus director wins trustee award

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... Mavis Robertson as his mentor. "His engagement with the fund is an example of industry best practice for the equal representation model," Atkin said. Former Cbus director Wilhelm Harnisch won the award in 2012. Separately, AIST added a new director to ...

Super funds suit up for Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... available via APRA. Issues in appointing and removing directors may arise, Hooper says, adding the basic equal representation model of members and employers can lead to deadlock in the absence of independent directors. The "heavy reliance" on negotiated ...

Regulatory disruption hampers long-term vision for super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... member engagement and trust. "Our underlying profit-to-member ethos, our focus on putting members first, equal representation of employers and employees on our boards - are what have set us apart these past 26 and more years. I believe that maintaining ...

APRA delivers poor super fund ultimatum

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... enhanced member outcomes and board composition," Rowell said. "This was consistent for funds with and without equal representation, across measures of investment performance, fees and costs, and sustainability metrics such as net cash flows." The ASFA ...

Members better off with equal representation: AIST

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... the Turnbull Government's proposal to mandate a governance model for superannuation funds and preserve the equal representation rule. In response to the Superannuation Laws Amendment (Strengthening Trustee Arrangements) Bill 2017 sitting before a Senate ...

Fraser review challenges super board independence

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
... to say the original Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Trustee Governance) Bill and its attack on the equal representation model of not-for-profit funds "is contrary to the support shown worldwide for this model, including in a majority of OECD countries." ...

Turnbull putting industry fund governance back on the table

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
... finance sector norms to the boardroom will undermine the member-first culture that has been a hallmark of the equal representation model." But Turnbull, who said he is committed to making the superannuation system efficient and competitive, argued that ...
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