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Cbus adds to board

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
Two new members have joined Wayne Swan on the board of industry superannuation fund Cbus. Jason O'Mara was appointed a member director this month, replacing Dave Noonan. O'Mara has been the Construction, Forestry Mining and Energy Union's ...

FIRB reappoints Irvine as chair

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
... security expertise as a former Director-General of both the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the Australian Secret Intelligence Service. He is the only Australian to have headed both the domestic and foreign spying agencies, which he ...

RBA names head of payments policy

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2021
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) promoted a longstanding employee as head of the payments policy department. Ellis Connolly has been with the RBA for over 20 years and was most recently deputy head, financial markets infrastructure in payments policy ...

Economic recap: Week to October 22

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
It wasn't so long ago - before the COVID-19 pandemic struck to be precise - that every other central bank around the planet were hopin' and wishin' and prayin' for consumer price inflation to, at the very least, move higher to within ...

Industry slams Future Fund disclosure exemption

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
The super industry is calling for mandated consistency on portfolio holdings disclosure after it was recommended the Future Fund be exempt from disclosing commercially sensitive information. The Senate Committee report released this week on disclosure ...

AustralianSuper adds ACTU president to board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2021
The current president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions has joined the board of AustralianSuper, replacing a longstanding director and former deputy chair. Michele O'Neil has been appointed as a director on the board of the nation's ...

Platinum LICs combine boards

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2021
Platinum Asset Management's Asian equities and global equities LIC will now have a common board, as its Asia LIC's chair Malcolm Halstead retires. Platinum Capital Limited (ASX: PMC) and Platinum Asia Investments Limited (ASX: PAI) will both ...

Time to weed out dud funds: Delaney

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... underperforming funds that have been skating by in the industry for too long, and not getting the results members deserve. "The dirty secret of the super industry is that most funds don't do much better than a passive portfolio," he said. "If you ...

Why are YFYS test scores a secret?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
At the AIST's annual investment conference, APRA general manager superannuation Katrina Ellis was asked if the regulator is keen on transparency, why it didn't publish the quantum by which MySuper products passed or failed the inaugural YFYS ...

CFS appoints risk chief from MLC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2021
Colonial First State has appointed a new chief risk officer, with MLC Wealth's former chief operating officer stepping into the role. Anthony Lane starts as group chief risk officer at CFS today. He was chief operating officer and chief risk officer ...