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Instos lobby for Main Street

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... prevent compensation systems from encouraging a 'bet the ranch' mentality, and did not hold management sufficiently accountable. Anne Sheehan, director corporate governance, California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) said "Do empower owners ...

Analyse this

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... ladder. It is at the top where they get their own support team, paid the same way as portfolio managers and are just as accountable with investment decisions. "I was frustrated that, traditionally, analysts are traveling, running earnings models, and ...

PE firm pays NY fund $20m in compensation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... US $20 million in restitution for the benefit of the CRF. "It is important that both firms and individuals be held accountable for conduct that jeopardised the integrity of the New York State Common Retirement Fund," said Attorney General Cuomo. "To ...

AFS appoints Elixir Consulting

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... based pricing module if they need to do so and doubles as a "quality Sales Manager" approach to ensure they remain accountable to the goals they have set for their business, she said. AFS Group advisers participating in the program will also have access ...

Education drag hits super savings: GESB

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... to educate themselves about super, new research shows. West Australian fund GESB has found a disconnect between how accountable Australians feel for building adequate retirement savings, and the extent to which they think they should learn about super ...

HESTA pays managers after tax

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... billion HESTA is taking a new approach to measuring and remunerating Aussie equities fund managers by making them accountable for the tax implications of their decisions. According to a press statement by HESTA, the fund would be the first super fund ...

AFA renews call to restrict 'financial adviser' term

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... small number that don't act appropriately. "Some sectors of the media are holding the adviser community as a whole accountable for the sins of the very few and in the process are willfully ignoring the vast majority of advisers who do the right thing," ...

Chronican departs Westpac

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... to the role of group executive, Westpac Institutional Bank. Whitfield joined Westpac in 1986. During 2008, he was accountable for the development and execution of the St.George merger transaction. Kelly also announced that Greg Targett is being appointed ...

Wealth Within joins IMA race

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... the fund manager who is ultimately responsible for the underlying investment decisions and therefore should be held accountable for those decisions, not the investor," said Dale Gilham, the firm's chief analyst.

IBM Cognos measures credit risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... that can alert them sooner to credit risk issues, particularly with the government-led bail-put programs making them accountable to their country's regulatory and political heads. Laurence Trigwell, global leader in financial services at IBM Cognos ...