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Equipsuper pulls plug on Vision merger

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
... unwinding the tie-up. "The difficulty was we had no confidence in the Board of the combined fund," said Andrew Fairley, chair of Equipsuper. "The Equipsuper investment model had been agreed on as one of bases that we thought would be supported by the ...

Government responds to proxy vote concerns

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... on remuneration matters. An exception was provided in the act where shareholders could give an undirected proxy to the chair of an annual general meeting and the shareholder provides their informed consent for the chair to exercise the proxy. Concerns ...

FINSIA appoints new president

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... Birch. Birch joined the Securities Institute of Australasia (SIA) in 1992. She has been on the Finsia Board since 2005, chair of the Membership Advisory Committee and a member of the NSW Regional Council.

IMCA: Asset allocation future uncertain

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... that angst is felt in boardrooms of funds, felt by management and their advisers," said Paul Costello, non-executive chair of Blackstone, Australasia. "There is also angst among the members of the super funds and its not lost on many of us that growing ...

Hastings consortium snaps up de-sal plant

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... flow coming from state governments to allow us to invest what we would like to invest in Australia," said Garry Weaven, chair of Industry Funds Management, at a recent industry superannuation event. Hastings currently has $6.9bn funds under management ...

AIST appoints new president

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... tenure as the Institute's president. A current director of Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and chair of the national Women in Super network, Wood is also deputy chair of Care Super, a member of the ACT Treasury Investment Advisory ...

Zurich continues Investments restructure

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... Patrick Noble has taken the role of senior investment strategist in a move designed to better reflect his current role as chair of the Tactical and Strategic Asset Allocation committee, in addition to responsibility for asset class decisions and fund ...

Count taps Clark, expands BDM network

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... concluded. Tonitto, currently senior executive business development and marketing at Count in addition to her role as chair of the Australian Marketing Institute, joined the firm last year. Simkin has been with Count for 18 years. His position is still ...

Governance Australia's best export to Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... like governance and sophisticated services. Bandid Nijathaworn, former deputy governor of the Bank of Thailand and now chair of the Thai Bond Market Association, wrote in a recent edition of the Lowy Institute's Interpreter newsletter that "Asia can ...

Microinsurance reaches 500m people

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... services to more low-income people," says Craig Churchill, team leader of the ILO's Microinsurance Innovation Facility and chair of the Microinsurance Network. Asia represents 80% of the microinsurance market, driven by demand in China and especially ...