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Government targets super in awards, board independence

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... publicly defensible." Sinodinos suggested applying the principles the Australian Securities Exchange uses for corporate governance to superannuation trustee boards. He said that boards must have "enough independent directors to make sure that everybody ...

John Hewson calls for overhaul of superannuation system

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... restoring stability and certainty to superannuation with an emphasis on improving competition, transparency and corporate governance. Hewson would also like to see a review of the role of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in ...

AUI strengthens compliance governance division

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... and Liesl Petterd has been appointed to it. Petterd will be in charge of providing support and advice on corporate governance, risk, compliance and policy matters. She has over 15 years' experience in Australia and the UK providing legal and tax advice ...

ASIC issues governance warning on local emerging market companies

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued a warning over corporate governance in Australian companies that have significant operations in emerging markets, saying these companies are more susceptible to collapse than domestically ...

Health Industry Plan gets MySuper licence

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
... months, and despite the time-consuming nature of the exercise, the process has been valuable in reviewing the corporate governance of the fund." HIP is a national industry superannuation fund servicing health and associated industries. It was established ...

Cormann commits to change in face of Labor moratorium

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... by allowing any MySuper product to compete freely in that market. Next he said the Coalition would improve corporate governance arrangements for superannuation by implementing relevant Cooper Review recommendations, particularly in relation to better ...

Labor promises five-year freeze on super tax

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... competition in the default funds market would remain entrenched and that there would be no capacity to improve corporate governance arrangements in line with relevant Cooper Review recommendations," he said. "It would also mean no opportunity to re-visit ...

R&D focus giving Asian companies greater pricing power

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... Greater awareness of brand and marketing has also led to Samsung outselling Apple in many Western markets. "Corporate governance has also greatly improved since 1996 and Asian companies are using international reporting standards, updating the market ...

'Visionary' ACSI President receives posthumous award

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
... President of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), has been honoured by the International Corporate Governance Council (ICGN) with a special award for achievements in corporate governance O'Sullivan was the founding president of ...

Nikko AM restructures CEO and chairman roles

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... the company. Nikko AM said it was separating the roles of chief executive and chairman in line with common corporate governance practices where the chairman is in charge of governance related matters and the chief executive executes the business strategy. ...