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Adviser standards need a tidy

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... professional standards of financial advisers, including transition arrangements for existing advisers, with a board of seven directors. "To ensure that the board fully understands how standards will affect small business financial advisers, we believe ...

FPA charity names new chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... foundation of the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA), has appointed Matthew Rowe as chair and added three new directors/trustees. Rowe has been the Future2 chair elect since 2014. He joined the Future2 board in 2011 when he was chair of ...

Former NSW politician joins Media Super

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
... essential if superannuation funds are going to deliver superior returns to members. I look forward to working with the other directors to ensure Media Super continues to provide effective, portable and secure retirement options for employees in the print ...

NZ Super appoints new chair

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
... New York as a part of a 25 year career with Deutsche Asset Management and Deutsche Bank. She is also on the board of directors at Kiwibank and was appointed to the Guardians board in 2012. Walker said he had resigned the chairmanship to focus on a smaller ...

Listed companies improve ESG approach

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) found that 79% of listed Australian companies surveyed this year had improved their environment, social and governance (ESG) approach. In 2014, ACSI had chosen 28 companies as engagement priorities ...

Women in Super names recipients of 2015 NSW scholarship program

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
Christmas has arrived three weeks early for five Women in Super (WIS) members who became the latest recipients of the association's scholarship program. Now in its fifth year running, the NSW Women in Super scholarship programs are designed to help ...

Super governance saga continues

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... super trustees to disclose to members on an 'if not, why not' basis whether their board has a majority of independent directors. ASFA supports a general reporting obligation that would require trustee to publish their board composition, including the ...

Governance bill loses Senators' support

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... representative board model in legislation. The current proposed legislation would, at a minimum, see one third independent directors on APRA-regulated super fund boards.

The world of ASFA according to Twitter

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... from the marketing and comms teams but from super fund chief executive officers, chief investment officers and trustee directors. It helped that delegates could namedrop @therealbuzz (the Twitter handle of Dr. Buzz Aldrin), @KevinSpacey and @StephenFry ...

Super fund governance bill enters final debate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... final debate on the superannuation trustee governance bill tomorrow, which at a minimum will see one third independent directors on APRA-regulated super fund boards. The bill could see one last amendment from crossbench senator Ricky Muir that would ...