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Wine critic pours out frustration at fund managers

... returns on their investment in the wine industry, too many decisions that affect the share price and ultimately the governance of the wine companies are being made for the wrong reasons."

Crean comes out firing on super, corporate governance

Labor's Simon Crean has outlined a series of measures to tighten rules on corporate governance and attacked the Government's superannuation tax policy in a populist response to the Budget that is being seen as a litmus test for his credentials as party ...

Trustees and managers must take active role in governance: ALP

... investors take a greater role in ensuring that the companies they invest in are well governed. "For Labor, corporate governance is of paramount importance as the retirement incomes of all Australians depend upon well-managed companies," Conroy said in ...

Transparency the key to corporate governance: Costello

... corporate life-as long as it is combined with transparency-as businesses come to terms with increased emphasis on corporate governance in the post HIH environment. In a speech to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris ...

IFSA acts to tighten fund manager voting policy

... managers have been providing this information where requested, the new SIMA should lift the awareness of corporate governance activities by trustees," Gilbert added. "IFSA has also encouraged its members to disclose their proxy voting policy on their ...

Government acts on super system "designed to fail"

The Federal Government has outlined a new approach to the governance of superannuation funds in a bid to make them more accountable to members as 'choice of super' legislation remains stalled in the Senate, with no end to the deadlock in sight. "Accepting ...

Campbell sees greater protective role for CFOs

... traits belonged to. Campbell added that the Government's CLERP 9 reforms, as part of its drive for improved corporate governance, required both the CFO and CEO to sign off to the board of financial accounts. "Accurate, timely and user friendly information ...

IFSA welcomes ASX corporate governance guidelines

... Financial Services Association (IFSA) today welcomed the launch of the Australian Stock Exchange's (ASX) corporate governance guidelines. Richard Gilbert, chief executive officer of IFSA, said that the guidelines are overwhelmingly consistent with IFSA's ...

AMP gets $100,000 slap on the wrist from ASIC

... involve specialised training to company executives and officers to increase awareness of market disclosure and related governance issues. "AMP has acknowledged that some of its disclosures in the period between July 29 and September 17 2002 should have ...

IFSA lines up against Labor on voting and disclosure

... they can have harsh and unintended consequences-and in this case could 'fly in the face' of getting better corporate governance," Gilbert said. IFSA said that fund managers, largely on behalf of superannuation investors, are already active in the corporate ...

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VanEck switches to AI-powered index

MATTHEW WAI | 12:22PM

The ETF issuer is making a switch to one of its ETFs, telling Financial Standard the ETF will be Australia's first to use artificial intelligence (AI) to select international stocks, while confirming several new products will be available in the near future.

HESTA, Cbus, Mercer report super returns

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 12:03PM

HESTA, Cbus and Mercer have delivered strong returns for members over the financial year 2025-26 despite global uncertainty, attributing it to their diversification strategy.

Team Super welcomes new chief of staff

MATTHEW WAI | 11:58AM

Team Super has appointed a senior executive to oversee its operations and staff, working alongside chief executive Vasyl Nair.

Global concentration risks to reorient investors: JBWere

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | 12:31PM

A rising concentration risk across global and local equities is reorienting investors to income stocks and fixed income exposure, JBWere said.

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