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Industry fund hires executives

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... organisation that directly serve LGS members including financial planning, client relationships and the in-house member contact centre. LGS is currently undertaking a comprehensive organisational redesign to position itself for the long term, according ...

Equity Trustees adds former family office leader to board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
A former Mutual Trust chief executive is set to join the board of Equity Trustees. Tim Hammon has been appointed as a non-executive director of Equity Trustees, adding 10 years of leadership experience at one of Australia's prominent multi-family offices ...

Charity donates $10m to university

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
... for naturopathic medicine higher education, research and engagement. "We aim to establish an internationally-recognised centre of excellence in naturopathic medicine education and associated research. We are proud to be the first Australian university ...

Culture dominates shareholder engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... While Australian Ethical doesn't regularly engage with Woolworths, it recently voted in favour of the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility's (ACCR) shareholder resolution. Palmer said this called for stricter reporting on labour conditions ...

Labor franking credit changes fair but not the best: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
Grattan Institute has called Labor's plan to end refunds of excess franking credits a "fair way" to improve the Federal Budget but it is still "second-best" as there are better solutions. Grattan's budget policy director Danielle Wood and fellow ...

Royal Commission: ASIC rethinks negotiation tactics

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... stating they range from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. A recent example was the Superannuation Consumers' Centre benefitting from a $1.25 million payment as a result of an Enforceable Undertaking (EU) ASIC entered into with CBA and ...

Super fund slashes fees, switches administrator

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... EISS introduced a mobile app; stopped sending half-yearly statements dated July 1 to December 31; and extended its call centre hours from 8am to 8pm (AEST) Monday to Friday. EISS was the super fund exclusively for workers in the energy industry in NSW ...

AMP partners with Morningstar

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... Morningstar also provides and hosts a bespoke web portal for financial advisers, based on the existing Adviser Research Centre platform, which brings together BT's own research output alongside manager and equity research, data, and tools from Mo ...

Royal Commission puts bonuses on notice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... reasons," Comyn said. "Yes, they (targets and bonuses) can drive perverse outcomes." Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre associate professor Elizabeth Sheedy said questions must be asked of the ongoing use of balanced scorecards in the industry. ...

AMP Capital appoints fund manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
... He has been in the industry for more than 30 years. In his most recent role, Wiliams led GPT's $5 billion shopping centre portfolio. He was also GPT's deputy head of investment management. Prior to this, Williams worked as a portfolio manager ...