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AXA IM to expand responsible investment focus

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... the emerging Asian growth market. But he warned that Australian institutional investors faced a raft of new corporate governance challenges in Asia. "Undoubtedly Asia represents a unique investment opportunity, but global investors should abandon the ...

LGS first fund to sign iqBoard solution

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
Local Government Super's governance now operates in the Cloud after moving to the iPad and signing with newly-launched trustee office solution, iqBoard, from The IQ Business Group's iqCloud. The first super fund to sign up its board governance to the ...

Carbon-tilted indices planned for Aust

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... institutional market with a variety of different approaches by these investors, say some might be focused on corporate governance or climate change, while the retail market is more simplistic."

Independent directors not the silver bullet answer, super fund chairs

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
Four senior fund chairs were quizzed on various aspects of fund governance during this week's ASFA conference, which included the independence of directors and whether a time limit should be placed on a board member's tenure. Neil Cochrane, chair of ...

Constructing a fund governance roadmap

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
Proper management of conflicts of interest and conflicts of duty are key elements of a high standard fund governance roadmap, delegates at the 2011 ASFA conference were told. Danielle Press, chief executive of Equip Super and soon to be merged fund ...

ASX names former ASIC head new Corp Governance chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
Alan Cameron AO has been appointed chair of the ASX Corporate Governance Council, replacing retiring chair of 16 years and ASX's executive general manager, regulatory and public policy, Malcolm Starr. The Corporate Governance Council is a collection ...

ESG adds value but in moderation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... and makes returns unstable. "The industry's understanding of the way in which ESG (environmental, sustainability and governance) scores and investment outcomes interact is still developing," noted Plato in their paper, 'Implementing ESG Tilts in an Equity ...

Franklin Templeton launches Australian equity fund

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... sustainable earnings and employs a fundamental value approach and internal bottom-up analysis. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are considered as well as after-tax outcomes for investors. "This fund is an important development for our ...

Union members an industry fund minority

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... ratios present significant challenges for industry funds should a future coalition government bring superannuation governance more into line with public companies, notwithstanding retail funds would also be confronted but in different ways. But with ...

Funds should target retirement income not returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
... income at Challenger Ltd. Cooper was speaking this week at the Superannuation and Social Purpose: Nation Building, Governance and Politics conference held at the University of Sydney. The conundrum is that while high exposure to equities and equity-like ...