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AIA under fire for coal holdings

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... insurer's investments better with its public brand, address the gaps in its climate policy and live up to its ambitions as a corporate leader," it said. Insure Our Future and SumOfUs have called for AIA to adopt a coal divestment policy which covers ...

ASFA adds board members

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... industry super, and Michael Clancy (Qantas Super chief executive) and Chris Davies (TelstraSuper chief executive) for corporate super. In welcoming Fraser and Lombardo, ASFA chair Michael Easson said: "I am pleased to have Andrew and Frank join the ASFA ...

Retail superannuation funds grilled on member priorities

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... owner IOOF over the long term, Weeks said the primary goal is to act in members' best interests. "Yes, part of the corporate focus is to ensure sustainability and a reasonable return, but our focus is very much on members' best interests," she ...

SSGA names global investments chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... services. Lacaille has been with SSGA for more than two decades and he is currently State Street's chair of the executive corporate responsibility committee. He will report to Ronald O'Hanley, chair and chief executive State Street. After working with ...

ASIC takes SMSF accountant to court

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... undertaking. Jenan Oslem Thorne, otherwise known as Cenan Thorne or Cenan Dikmen of Saber Superannuation, was found by the corporate regulator in 2019 to have prioritised her own interests ahead of her clients and was consequently banned for three years. ...

Boutique to use Equity Trustees

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... is proposed as a result of key investor feedback to ensure that investors in the Master Fund have the best possible corporate governance and business continuity protection," it said in a notice to investors. "Whilst there have been no issues with Spire ...

ASIC investigates ASX

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
The corporate regulator is investigating the ASX following an outage last week which saw investors unable to trade for 24 hours. "ASIC has confirmed to ASX that it is conducting an investigation into the ASX Trade outage on Monday, 16 November 2020," ...

Business tax expanded to big corporates

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
The government has expanded its temporary tax write-off measure to include businesses with turnover over $5 billion. Businesses with aggregated turnover over $5 billion due to income from overseas that have invested $100 million intangible depreciating ...

FEAL executive of the year named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... this week. UniSuper chief executive Kevin O'Sullivan has been recognised for his contribution to digital innovation, corporate strategy, and his leadership throughout COVID-19. O'Sullivan has been chief executive of UniSuper for more than seven years ...

APRA reduces CBA capital requirement

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... enforceable undertaking which required a remedial action plan with an independent reviewer to check the progress. The corporate regulator said the latest report from independent reviewer showed "significant progress" in executing the remedial action ...