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Calls for Royal Commission into housing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... negatively impacted labour productivity. Compounding the issue, they argued, is a dearth of skills, institutions, and governance structures to understand the housing system and construct a coherent policy response. In a survey of 87 leading economists ...

Rest appoints head of operations

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... role this month and will be based in the Sydney office, reporting to general manager, administration solutions and governance David Madden. The appointment comes after Rest hired former AustralianSuper business solutions manager Jessica Empson to the ...

L1 Capital launches activist fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... fund invests long-only in the top 200 Australian public companies, using shareholder activism to enhance corporate governance and protect their interests. Hawkins will work alongside L1 Capital managing directors and co-chief investment officers Rafi ...

Aware Super awards $30bn mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... investment officer Damien Graham said. "SSGA is a world-class investment company with strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials that are very aligned to our own. Their proposal offered compelling value for money for our members and ...

AUSIEX launches, announces leadership team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... customer experience and marketing; Karin Maltby as head of market operations; Stephen Tudjman as head of legal and governance; Hiroki Shimada as head of strategy and Mark Pace as head of technology. Blewitt commented: "With unrivalled expertise, scale ...

Life Code Compliance Committee chair named

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... board experience and is currently deputy chancellor at the University of New England, chair of the Gateway Network Governance Body and a member of the advisory board of the NSW Circular Economy Network. She is also chair of HeartKids Limited, a director ...

KPMG names risk consulting partners

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... practice with two partners joining the firm specialising in financial services. Chris de Wit has joined as partner in governance, risk & controls advisory and Kat Conner as risk, strategy & technology partner. de Wit was previously at Westpac where he ...

IFM adds to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... for long-term investors, including value creation in global markets, enhancing shareholder rights through corporate governance, and aligning fiduciary duty and investment discipline with an evolving focus on sustainability," IFM said in a statement. ...

Super fund risk culture "immature": APRA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
... potentially enables or even encourages damaging behaviour." Smith said APRA has stepped up its focus on transforming governance, culture, remuneration and accountability across its regulated entity. The regulator's primary concern, she clarified, is ...

Super funds under $30bn should merge: APRA

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... responsible for superannuation, Rowell warned of piecemeal mergers: including those where the merged entity ends up with poor governance, or where two small and underperforming funds merge. "And while this is welcome. We're not convinced all of these ...