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AXA's North man joins NAB

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... head has been restructured. For example, Steve Burgess, general manager in wealth management, will take on the responsibility of running the North team. UPDATE: This article was updated at 2:05pm 1/2/2010 to include more information on Burgess' new responsibilities ...

ESI and SPEC form Energy Super

FUND UPDATE  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... superannuation," he said. The merged fund will adopt SPEC Super's administration system with ESI Super's team to take responsibility for the fund management and financial services. Henricks said Energy Super would maintain its current investment options ...

AFA launch QLD flood appeal

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... floods currently affecting Queensland, Victoria and Northern NSW. "I think the AFA and the advisory community have a responsibility as part of the wider community to show our concern, to provide tangible support," said Richard Klipin, chief executive ...

Bennelong appoints senior analyst

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... Management. "Using his diversity of experience, he'll be responsible for fundamental analytics, allowing us to spread the responsibility for stock coverage across the team," said Paul Cuddy, BAEP chief executive. BAEP, a boutique fund manager, was established ...

Super funds still lag in understanding ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... social and governance factors in their investments, a new report found. New research by Corporate Analysis, Enhanced Responsibility and Seacliff Consulting found that there are still strong disconnects between funds' intentions and their implementation ...

Fiducian updates FORCe software

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... poor markets, interest rate changes, and declines in income or equity in the home. "We cannot underestimate the responsibility it imposes on financial planners, particularly in a fiduciary capacity," said Alan Dunne, head of Fiducian IT, who said that ...

AusFIN calls for 'fairer outcomes'

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... and the wider community should be involved in any policy developments. The charter aims to increase the level of responsibility policy and regulations should hold. "It [AusFIN] recognises that all essential services carry social and economic obligations ...

Trustees call to scrap MySuper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... provides to everybody out there the opportunity just to put it in the 'too hard' basket and let somebody else take the responsibility for it." Instead Galbally stressed the importance of dispensing with 25-page PDS documents and instilling in investors ...

Australia well behind in carbon pricing

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
While Australian board responsibility may be high, standards fall behind global competitors in terms of carbon pricing and reduction targets. ASX100 companies executive responsibility for climate change reaches 94 per cent, ranking Australia third in ...

Trustees must raise bar on governance: ASFA

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... people who are totally reliant on trustees doing the right thing, and so you have to have a much higher level of responsibility." The paper outlines 47 practices, including tenure and succession planning for the trustee board, code of conduct, conflicts ...