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Super trustee bill before the Senate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
The Senate Economics Legislation Committee is expected to table its report on new superannuation trustee governance laws today ahead of debating a proposed bill in the Senate tomorrow. If passed the bill will require all Australian Prudential Regulation ...

REST creates two new management roles

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... has been filling in as acting general manager investments. Walsh will be responsible for overseeing the investment governance functions and managing relationships with REST's asset consultant, custodian and external investment managers. "Ronan's extensive ...

Club Plus Super increases women on trustee board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... appointed Senior Counsel (SC) for New South Wales. She is regarded as an expert in financial services law and corporate governance - in particular directors' duties - and has deep understanding of the legal and regulatory challenges confronting Australian ...

CBA embeds ESG into investment, wealth management

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2015
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has introduced stronger environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies and practices across its investment and wealth management divisions. The new Wealth Management Responsible Investing Framework will integrate ESG into ...

Fiducian acquires practice, launches impact fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... investment manager Conrad Burge said. "At the same time, their stock selection process must consider environmental, social, governance or ethical activities of the companies they choose for their portfolios."

Macquarie and CBA in global top 100

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... we would caution investors to look very carefully at some of these passive product claims, and to not forget that - governance permitting - it is no substitute for real investment skill and good active management," Zinurova said. "In Australia we see ...

Towers Watson boosts hedge fund research team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... will cover a range of hedge fund and other diversifying strategies. In his previous role, he focused on investment governance, process improvement, and product management. Prior to that he was the director of implemented solutions at QIC and he was responsible ...

Labor questions APRA independence

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... superannuation Jim Chalmers believes the government pressured APRA to participate in the political debate over superannuation governance. "The Turnbull government should not be using APRA as a tool to argue its political case," Chalmers said. "The behaviour ...

Future Fund's morphing objective

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... payments it was never set up as a super fund which is why it was deliberately assembled outside of the superannuation governance frameworks. Reflecting this it doesn't have trustees but "guardians", who have similar ethical obligations but are not bound ...

AMP appoints ESG analyst

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
AMP Capital has appointed a senior investment analyst to its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment research team to increase the manager's focus on corporate governance. Kristen Le Mesurier will report to head of ESG research Ian Woods ...