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HESTA stands up to all-male boards

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... senior leadership positions from general manager to board level are made up of women The fund is also a member of the 30% Club and Australian Council of Superannuation Investors, both of which advocate for the boards of Australia's biggest companies ...

DomaCom launches affordable housing crowdfunding

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
DomaCom is partnering to launch a new crowdfunded investment vehicle, this time focusing on "resort-style" affordable housing for retirees. The partnership with Akuna Lifestyle Estates will see eight stages of development over three to four years to ...

First Super halts private equity investments

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... labour practices exhibited by companies in which it is invested via private equity funds, including Urban Purveyor Group, OSH Club and Aero-Care. Depending on the findings of the review, First Super may completely wind up its private equity portfolio. ...

Too much ado about Fed reinvesting nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
"Do you really want to hurt me Do you really want to make me cry..." - Culture Club It began like just another ordinary day on Wall Street but last night it was one with an upward bias despite geo-political tremors - chemical attack in Syria and nuclear ...

Women-led super funds outperform, so why so few leaders

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
Superannuation funds with higher than average levels of female strategic leadership outperforming other funds forces the question of why the proportion of women in superannuation leadership roles remains so low. Research by Rainmaker into the relative ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... Feb) and the House Financial Services Committee (15 Feb) and which she re-emphasised in her speech before "The Executives' Club of Chicago" on the 3rd of March. "...we realize that waiting too long to scale back some of our support could potentially ...

Celebrated sporting figure joins Pan-Tribal board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
... Australia and the board of the Australian Kookaburra Kids Foundation. He is also a former director of the Cronulla Sharks NRL club and chair of Sport Knowledge Australia. Kerr has served as a member of the FINA Doping Panel for more than 16 years, is ...

Cahill resigns from Club Plus Super

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
Long-serving Club Plus Superannuation chief executive and director of Club Plus Financial Planning Paul Cahill is resigning from the fund. Cahill was appointed the inaugural chief executive of Club Plus Super and has been chief executive of the NSW ...

Aussie firms join gender index

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
... and by the leadership each of our member firms has demonstrated," Bloomberg chairman and founding chairman of the US 30% Club, Peter T. Grauer said. "Their commitments to building diverse and inclusive work environments are setting new standards around ...

Activity and inflation going Yellen's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... latest activity and inflation figures out of the US fit in nicely with Fed Chair Janet Yellen's speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California. Talking about "The Goals of Monetary Policy and How We Pursue Them", Yellen all but confirmed ...