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Byrne departs UniSuper

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... According to Elizabeth Bryan, chairman at UniSuper, Byrne exhibited strong leadership throughout her tenure in corporate governance issues and member representation. The Fund Executive Association Limited awarded Byrne Fund Executive of the Year in 2007. ...

Largest US pension fund SIO resigns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... international public equities, including a $8.4 billion hedge fund portfolio and $7.9 billion in activist corporate governance funds. During Wood's tenure, the pension fund's global equity unit added internal capabilities in domestic small cap, international ...

CFS engages Innovest for ESG research

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... providers, Innovest Strategic Value Advisers, in the next phase of its ongoing integration of environment, social and governance (ESG) risk assessment into its investment processes. CFS GAM will utilise the results of Innovest's ESG research to deliver ...

Iraqi economic growth to hit 7 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... to the greenback on a "crawling" basis, meaning that even in Iraq you are not safe from sub-prime contagion. On the governance front, the Iraqi authorities are aiming to strengthen public financial management and central bank accounting frameworks while ...

Mercer expands RI team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... responsible investment team. Jia was appointed to associate of the responsible investment division having completed a PhD in governance and corporate responsibility. Terayama was selected as senior consultant for the division after previously working ...

Operation auction squad

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
... that "Communication has become a more important part of the central banker's tool kit& That is a requirement of good governance, but also it will usually make policy decisions more effective." But in a lesson for all financial services operators, the ...

APRA audit adds to bottomline

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
... need to worry about as purely form filling, but APRA doesn't want people just filling in forms, if you have good IT governance you will save yourself money down the track you'll find risky areas before they become real issues," Alexandratos said. He ...

The future of super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... organisations will achieve the best outcome if they have an alignment of interest within their organisation, high level governance oversight mechanisms, high capability implementation mechanisms and scale," he said. While boutique funds have flourished ...

CG not a priority for mid-caps

Listed companies in the mid-cap sector run the risk of being ignored by corporate governance-conscious institutional investors after a new report found that only two out of 150 mid-cap companies have adopted 'best practice' CG standards. The 2007 BDO ...

SWIFT overhauls proxy voting

Financial messaging specialist SWIFT pushes corporate governance up a notch through an automated messaging system that creates a transparent 'audit trail' of proxy votes cast by fund managers and pension funds. The new system, called SWIFTNet Proxy ...