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Governance Institute pulls support for super bill

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
The Governance Institute has pulled its initial support for the government's bill on superannuation fund boards and is now calling for it to be scrapped. "The process has become overly politicised to the detriment of genuine governance outcomes," a ...

ASIC funding model needs "meat on the bones"

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
The Treasury's proposal of a new model to fund ASIC lacks detail and needs "more meat on the bones," the Governance Institute said. The organisation said that the government's consultation paper 'Proposed Industry Funding Model for the Australian Securities ...

ISA calls out banks over fee structures

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... financial loss to their customers, it is not credible that the wealth management divisions of the banks want to improve governance in superannuation. "In the interests of safeguarding Australians' retirement savings, all politicians should reject a bill ...

Japan pension fund backs responsible investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... development." GPIF has about US$1.14 trillion in funds under management and bases its perspective on Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues around its investment principles which aim to "maximise medium-to-long-term equity investment returns ...

More must be done to cut fees: FSC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... released in the FSC's submission to the Senate Economics Inquiry into the Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Trustee Governance) Bill 2015 shows that increasing scale in super through mergers and raising competitive tensions would reduce fees. Andrew ...

Kinetic Super appoints board director

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
... advocated by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI)," Kinetic Super said. The fund also noted that new governance rules expected to be in place in 2016 are likely to require funds to have a minimum of one third of their directors be ...

S&P warns banks on cyber risk

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
... this growing concern, S&P suggested multiple solutions, including addressing internal enhancement of technology risk governance practices; increasing spending on up-to-date security technology; investing in employee education about cyber-threats; increasing ...

HESTA chair seeks PRI board position

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015

Club Plus Super appoints three senior execs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... role of head of investments, Dooley is responsible for implementing the investment strategy, overseeing investment governance functions and managing relationships with the fund's asset consultant, custodian and external investment managers. Dooley's ...

PROFILE: BlackRock head of corporate governance Pru Bennett

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... On a quiet afternoon in 2000, Pru Bennett was sitting with the three other partners of proxy advisory firm Corporate Governance International, wondering how they were going to jumpstart the business. "Gee," she remembers thinking, "We just need a few ...