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Trustees review fine print

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011
... gaining more scale and moving more of their investment management in-house will force trustees to add extra layers of governance or risk losing large sums of fund members' money, experts said. The recent case of AvSuper, which filed a legal claim against ...

ARIA boosts property sustainability

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
... advance its ESG agenda. These include collaborations with the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors, Regnan Governance Research and Engagement and Investor Group on Climate Change, among others.

Coalition gives qualified support to reforms

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... union bias to one side and start acting in the public interest" on the issue of not-for profit superannuation fund governance. "Why would the government not support the Cooper Review recommendation to require independent directors on superannuation boards? ...

Super funds still lag in understanding ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... implementing ESG practices, super funds still have a fair way to go in properly incorporating environmental, social and governance factors in their investments, a new report found. New research by Corporate Analysis, Enhanced Responsibility and Seacliff ...

Mercer outlines top trends for 2011

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... predictions from this time last year. The asset consultant reiterated its prediction that environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues will gain increasing attention, and reaffirmed its view that there will be greater acceptance of dynamic asset ...

AIST hires trustee governance manager

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... has appointed the former chief of Australian Lawyers Alliance, Eva Scheerlinck, to the newly-created role of trustee governance and professional standards manager. Scheerlinck will head up AIST's trustee governance and professional standards department. ...

Review after Military Super changes mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... month, the government fund appointed Towers Watson as principal investment consultant in a move the fund called "good governance". Towers Watson was appointed under a comprehensive retainer arrangement, however the fund's investment consultant, Strategic ...

New investment consultant for MilitarySuper

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... executive. Seton said the decision to review the Scheme's investment consulting arrangements was simply a matter of good governance. "It has been many years since a review has occurred, so we recently undertook a comprehensive tender process, resulting ...

APRA cautions against cloud computing

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... superannuation trustees and friendly societies to be wary of the introduction of cloud computing into the risk and governance processes. The regulator said that while the use of cloud computing is not yet widespread, several APRA-regulated institutions ...

SAM becomes TransCap

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... Investments confirmed that they still have over $500 million in funds linked with TransCap for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments. TransCap screens companies and designs the indices, which Vanguard manages its Transformation leaders ...