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Mercer appoints three new directors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023
... noted that as the firm continues to progress its strategic growth agenda across investments and superannuation, strong governance and leadership across Mercer's fiduciary boards remains ever important. "Our fiduciary boards play a key role in helping ...

Super funds embrace offshore investment, internal teams

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2023
... fees, as well as potentially greater control and fresh investment insights, the report said. However, there are also governance challenges to consider, like the need to preserve the organisation's original culture and ensuring that investment performance ...

Rest appoints WTW as asset consultant

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2023
... investment expertise. Rest investment committee chair Michael Bargholz said the continued maturing of Rest's investment governance, culture, and data and technology are key to delivering ongoing strong, long-term competitive performance to its 1.9 ...

IFM Investors names chair

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2023
... 1993 to 2010 and was minister for finance and deregulation from 2007 to 2010. He has extensive experience in corporate governance and advising financial and asset managers, including as a special advisor to Lazard Australia for over 10 years. Tanner ...

Senate report labels PwC breach calculated, deliberate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023
... standing down its chief executive, Mr Seymour, and announcing the Switkowski review of PwC Australia's culture, governance, and accountability, would suffice to assuage public concern," it said. "... the letter from Ms [Kristin] Stubbins conspicuously ...

OnePath fined over MySuper bungle

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2023
... trustees fall short of our expectations," APRA deputy chair Margaret Cole said. "We expect trustees to have robust governance, compliance and risk management frameworks embedded and operationalised to prevent, detect and swiftly remediate potential breaches ...

NGS Super names chief executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
... retirement of Laura Wright. Previtera joined the $13 billion asset owner in 2019 and was appointed its chief risk and governance officer in 2021. Before arriving at NGS, she spent four years at AMP as a senior manager of trustee governance and two years ...

Advisers outsourcing to amplify investment capabilities: Mason Stevens

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
... among institutions was underpinned by a range of drivers including a lack of internal resources, the need to improve governance, the need for timelier decision making. deeper due diligence, and greater oversight of portfolio risks. Mason Stevens said ...

ASIC chair calls out greenhushing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
... provided additional context to the market regulator's focus on ESG action and disclosure by companies - what he called governance, greenwashing and the growth of sustainable finance. Longo noted that for institutions "it's not a question of 'shareholder ...

ASX lays out five-year plan to restore trust

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
... Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is confident that it can restore stakeholders' trust and get its fundamentals and governance right as it lays out a five-year plan to rectify ongoing issues. ASX managing director and chief executive Helen Lofthouse ...