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Di Bartolomeo joins AustralianSuper board

AustralianSuper has appointed Lucio Di Bartolomeo to its Trustee Board following the resignation of Barry Watchorn. Watchorn resigned after 13 years' service on the Board and its predecessor fund, ARF. Di Bartolomeo is the Australian Industry Group's ...

SAP and CSC join forces on pricing

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
Business software provider SAP has announced a joint venture with Computer Sciences Corporation to create a new pricing scenario program for CSC's bank clients. The new joint venture will combine SAP's Price Optimization software with CSC's Hogan Core ...

Canadian fund slams investment restrictions

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Canada's sixth largest pension fund, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) has called for the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions to remove rules that restrict how much pension funds can invest in certain assets. The fund claimed ...

BlackRock co-founder calls it a day

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
BlackRock co-founder and president Ralph Schlosstein has announced his resignation, effective immediately, to pursue "other entrepreneurial interests". While Schlosstein will remain as an advisor until early 2008, the board has promoted Robert Kapito ...

AMP chief executive steps down

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2007
AMP chief executive officer Andrew Mohl has resigned after five years at the helm of one of the largest financial services group in the country. Speaking at AMP's 2007 interim results press conference, Mohl said he would leave towards the end of the ...

AustralianSuper changes guard

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
It's musical chairs time at AustralianSuper, following the departure of three directors and chairman Geoff Ashton. Ashton will be replaced by alternate director and Ai group chief executive Heather Ridout, but remain on the fund's investment committee. ...

Citigroup puts a cost on climate change

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
A report has just been released by Citigroup Australia consulting analyst Elaine Prior on the effect of climate change on companies within the ASX100. The analysis follows the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDPP4) which surveyed 225 investors globally with ...

Pengana portfolio manager steps down

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2006
Pengana Capital's portfolio manager for its listed property trusts has decided to leave the group. Ern Koh, who is portfolio co-manager of the group's listed property trusts along with Mark Thorpe-Apps, has resigned from his post with the Australian ...

Banks under growing IT security threat: Deloitte

Financial institutions need to get serious about their IT security after the latest Deloitte Global Security Survey found that more than three-quarters of the world's leading 150 finance groups suffered a serious security breach in the last 12 months. ...

Claws out on unlicensed super trustees

Around 300 to 400 super funds who don't have an APRA license are on ASIC's watch list to ensure those funds' trustees comply with superannuation disclosure rules. More than three weeks has elapsed since APRA's February 17 deadline for trustees to put ...