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Industry fund hires group executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... skilled team delivering sound financial management, highly commercial legal and compliance capability, and robust risk governance frameworks to ensure our members rights are protected. I am delighted to welcome Gemma to the Rest executive team." The ...

AMP replaces Regan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... proactively transforming its business and developing new systems and technology to improve the advice process and strengthen governance, compliance and controls - all which results in an enhanced advice experience for customers," he said. De Ferrari ...

New Zealand reviews life insurance commissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... insurance and incentives in vertically integrated institutions, as well as predicting a deepening of their focus on governance and culture within financial services firms.

MLC Life restructures team, ramps up transformation ambitions

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... as general manager of data and analytics. He will be responsible for formulating the company's strategy for data governance, analytics and data insights, and establishing a stronger data-driven culture for customers. Prior to joining MLC Life, Klein ...

For-profit lobbying leads to $53bn problem: AIST

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... super sector are posing big problems for Australia's retirement system. Latest research from the AIST and UTS corporate governance professor Thomas Clarke shows concessions in the reforms to Australia's superannuation system designed to benefit the for-profit ...

Miscalculations delay remediation, more issues emerge: AMP

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
... behaviour that has created AMP's poor culture. This has been compounded by underinvestment in risk, compliance and governance systems, he said.

Culture dominates shareholder engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... that SSGA will continue to firmly urge the 12,000 or so companies it invests in to ensure environmental, social and governance considerations are high on the board's agenda. Darroch told a recent Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees thought ...

BEAR should be expanded, ASIC included: Shipton

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... applying the Banking Executive Accountability Regime to senior ASIC staff while being quizzed on the regulator's current governance. After telling Senior Counsel Assisting Rowena Orr that he believes the BEAR should be expanded to also encompass all ...

Royal Commission: ASIC rethinks negotiation tactics

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... corporate memory of contacts of this kind is itself, surely, a matter of very considerable importance to the proper governance of ASIC?" Hayne asked. "I most certainly agree with that," Shipton said.

Industry funds lead website experience

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... Transition to Retirement (TTR) accounts (0.7 higher) and locating Age Pension information (0.6 points higher). Corporate governance documents were tough to locate on both industry fund and retail fund websites but industry funds scored 0.3 points higher. ...