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Health Industry Plan gets MySuper licence

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
... months, and despite the time-consuming nature of the exercise, the process has been valuable in reviewing the corporate governance of the fund." HIP is a national industry superannuation fund servicing health and associated industries. It was established ...

Trio director strikes back and takes APRA to court

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
... director of Trio at the time of its collapse in 2009 but in 2005, had raised concerns, in writing, which were material to governance and prudential capital matters relevant to the granting of Trio's Responsible Superannuation Entity licence by APRA," ...

Super funds should use soft power, not quotas to fix gender equality

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... country for quotas regardless of whichever political party is in power." Quotas also encourage a 'tick box' approach to governance which is generally counterproductive, she said. A much more effective strategy is using the soft power of business influence. ...

Victims push for new Trio fraud inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013
... retail consumers. It asked for an improvement of the communication of risks to investors and recommended improving the governance arrangements of managed investment schemes. Some $176 million was lost or went missing in late 2009 following the collapse ...

Cormann commits to change in face of Labor moratorium

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... by allowing any MySuper product to compete freely in that market. Next he said the Coalition would improve corporate governance arrangements for superannuation by implementing relevant Cooper Review recommendations, particularly in relation to better ...

Labor promises five-year freeze on super tax

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... competition in the default funds market would remain entrenched and that there would be no capacity to improve corporate governance arrangements in line with relevant Cooper Review recommendations," he said. "It would also mean no opportunity to re-visit ...

R&D focus giving Asian companies greater pricing power

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... Greater awareness of brand and marketing has also led to Samsung outselling Apple in many Western markets. "Corporate governance has also greatly improved since 1996 and Asian companies are using international reporting standards, updating the market ...

State Street wins $780m LGS mandate

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... active Australian equities," he said. "SSgA's portfolio is customised to conform with our environmental, social and governance investment principles and will exclude stocks from industries such as uranium mining, gambling, armaments and tobacco." LGS ...

PIS appoints PwC as independent expert

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... performance of its advisers. "We have undertaken a complete redesign of our compliance processes, training, recruitment and governance along with a suite of new advice tools and a series of key appointments, which are all part of our ongoing strategy," ...

Property fund veteran Wist joins Hadley Green

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... Atchison Consultants in Melbourne. He has more than 20 years' experience in investment fund evaluation, strategy and governance, property valuation, research, risk assessment and corporate advisory. "We are delighted to have Mark join us as part of Hadley ...