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Women on boards have no influence in performance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... ASX disclosure requirements in 2010. "Now, more women are likely to be appointed to ASX200 companies, but shareholders associate these appointments with an increase of board sizes." Adam found that it is frequent for a small pool of women executives ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
Go ahead punks, make my day! Did Russian President Vladimir Putin just give the G7 a two-handed one finger salute? This is if latest reports are true that Russia has given Ukraine's military forces in Crimea to surrender or face an all out assault ...

UCA introduces fossil fuel screening

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
UCA Fund Management will cease to invest directly in companies involved the extraction, refinement and exportation of thermal coal and unconventional oil and gas. The ethical fund manager, which is associated with the Uniting Church in Australia, will ...

AustralianUnity profits fall

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
Australian Unity's profits for the first half of the financial year have plunged by almost half compared to last year's half-year results. In its interim results for the 2013-2014 financial year, Australian Unity recorded profits of 6.1%, compare with ...

Ageing population threatens welfare system: Hockey

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey questioned whether the health and welfare systems could cope with the country's ageing population and asked for a debate about the cost of the age pension. Hockey spoke during the G-20 Finance ministers meeting that took place in ...

NAB reports $1.4 billion net profits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
National Australia Bank (NAB) has reported unaudited net profits of $1.4 billion and unaudited cash earnings of $1.55 billion for the December quarter. The latter figure represented a 7% rise from the corresponding period, and was 2% above the quarterly ...

BT reveals post-awards strategy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
BT Financial Group will pitch its MySuper product to at least 30,000 employers via Westpac's business bank should the government proceed with its plan to take superannuation out of modern awards. Vicki Doyle, head of corporate and retail super at BT ...

WA Super appoints Shanahan as chair

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
WA Super has appointed Tim Shanahan as the successor of the current chairman, Nick Catania, who will step down at the end of June this year. Shanahan has been chairman of the board's Compliance and Risk Management Committee since 2004. Shanahan has ...

CommInsure appoints head of investment strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... most recent role was head of investments. Before his time there, he worked in London for Henderson Global investors as associate director of investment solutions. Earlier this week, CommInsure appointed former Swiss Re head of life and health in Australia ...

APRA to scrutinise group insurance risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
Group insurance risk management will be top of the agenda in a number of thematic reviews to be carried out by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), according to the regulator's general manager Greg Brunner. Speaking at the Australian ...