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No pay for failure: ACSI

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... shareholders. Currently existing caps under sections 200F and 200G of the Corporations Act allow more than seven times annual remuneration, subject to shareholder approval. ACSI considers this to be "too generous". "Corporations should not pay excessive ...

Intech appoints Hawkey to board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... Committee and STL Financial Services is the chair at the State Trustees Investment Committee and is a member of the Remuneration and Compliance Committees. He also sits as an external member of the Principal Global Investors (Australia), BlackRock Funds ...

NAB Super ups employer contribution

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... Enterprise Bargaining Agreement, NAB will increase their employer contribution rate from 9.9 per cent of employees' Total Remuneration Package (TRP) to 10 per cent," noted a statement on the fund's website. NAB Super confirmed that the 0.4 per cent and ...

IRESS buys DMS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... transaction at $6.65 million based on yesterday's closing price of $6.14 per share. Under the deal, IRESS absorbs DMS remuneration business, which provides commission processing and dealer-pay software for over 100 dealer group licensees, and FundClick ...

ASX firms snub climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... change commitment, only four per cent of companies linked the climate change strategy to board or senior management remuneration. From those firms identified as high risk, 39 per cent disclosed absolute Greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions data and 19 per ...

FPA backs 'advice within super' review

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... Law. "If we need to provide greater clarity to Australians on the various business models that exist, which includes remuneration structures, and that ultimately engenders greater confidence in the system, that's a good thing and we welcome it," said ...

Focus on value not fees: AFA

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... promotes choice and value among clients. AFA national president Dennis Bateman stated that mandating a single model of remuneration is wrong. Bateman said such a model would distract everyone from the main purpose of working with advisers, which is building ...

FBI sting catches $2.4bn mortgage fraud

... protecting capital. "At the end of the day, the fund management industry needs to, over time, better align their remuneration structures with end investors. Particularly with hedge funds...the incentive is for people to do extreme things because the ...

van Eyk wary of boutique performance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... evolving market." According to Douglas, van Eyk found institutions are increasingly prepared to negotiate boutique-like remuneration structures such as revenue or profit share arrangements to prevent high performing teams from leaving. "Arguably these ...

Big lift in company corporate governance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
... internal committees remained a problem. Illustrating this, the survey found some major companies continue to have audit, remuneration or nomination committees that were either not made up of all independent directors or the chair was not independent. ...