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Glass ceiling stops at C-Suite

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... positions in recent years, the same cannot be said for those striving toward senior executive positions. Speaking at a 30% Club event in Sydney this morning, Xplore for Success chief executive Diana Ryall said the lack of women in senior executive positions ...

Former politician to chair Equity Trustees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
A former Victorian premier and media personality is expected to become the next chairman of Equity Trustees. Subject to his re-election to the board at EQT's annual general meeting in October, Jeff Kennett will succeed current chairman Tony Killen who ...

Cbus chief executive wins FEAL award

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
... member of the CEO Panel for the Investor Group on Climate Change; and is an AICD Investors Working Group member for the 30% Club, which campaigns for 30% of women on ASX 200 boards by the end of 2018. According to FEAL chief executive officer Joanna ...

Club Plus Super appoints new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
Club Plus Super promoted from within to name its new chief executive. Stefan Strano, who has been acting in the role since the departure of inaugural chief executive Paul Cahill, has been formally appointed to the position. Strano has been with the ...

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
First Super will make no new investments in its private equity program as its existing $100 million private equity portfolio is under review. This is being done, the fund said, due to concerns about poor labour practices exhibited by companies in which ...

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 ...