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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. ...

Future Fund appoints to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... and public service. He has significant expertise in the management of investments in financial assets and corporate governance," Future Fund said. Further, Costello will serve as the Future Fund's chair for another five years. He has chaired the board ...

AMP Capital expands ESG investment team

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
... finance and acting chief operating officer. Earlier this year the institutional investor's senior manager corporate governance Karin Halliday moved from Sydney to London to "support the globalisation of the ESG capability." She has more than 34 years' ...

Governance specialist names new chief executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
An industry association dedicated to best-practice corporate governance and culture is welcoming its new chief executive. The Governance Institute of Australia appointed Megan Motto as its new chief executive from January 2019. She is the former chief ...

Pension fund names new investments lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... role, Meng will oversee about 400 employees and be responsible for investment policies, risk management, corporate governance standards, and environmental, social and governance strategies. CalPERS chief executive Marcie Frost said the fund is pleased ...

Elon Musk steps down as Tesla chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... relief announced are specifically designed to address the misconduct at issue by strengthening Tesla's corporate governance and oversight in order to protect investors". Tesla is the fourth most traded international stock by Australian SMSFs, tailing ...

Improve climate risk disclosure: ASIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
... risks like climate risk. Additionally, ASIC called for companies to develop and maintain strong and effective corporate governance to help identify, assess and manage risk, and consider ow best to comply with the law where it requires the disclosure ...

ASIC to ramp up trustee visits

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018
... while a formal response is formulated before Christmas. As part of a new initiative, ASIC has launched its Corporate Governance Taskforce that will conduct targeted reviews of large listed companies, aiming to identify good and bad practices. It will ...

Pendal builds global executive lineup

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2018
... Richard Brandweiner, Group chief financial officer Cameron Williamson and group company secretary and head of corporate governance Joanne Hawkins.

AFIC appoints chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
Australia's oldest listed investment company is seeing a change of guard in its corporate governance as the current chair retires after 34 years on the board. Terrence Campbell will not seek re-election at the October 9 annual general meeting of the ...