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Public sector retirees angry over income exemption cuts

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... pensioners. The peak body representing Commonwealth, State, Territory and other public sector retirees, the Australian Council of Public Sector Retiree Organisations (ACPSRO), said in a statement this week there was an anomaly whereby public sector retirees ...

FSC slams insurance duty "boondoggle"

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
FSC policy director Andrew Bragg has urged the Council of Australian Governments to reduce or repeal inefficient taxes. Citing the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report (which singled out Australia's tax system as a drag on competition) ...

Listed companies improve ESG approach

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) found that 79% of listed Australian companies surveyed this year had improved their environment, social and governance (ESG) approach. In 2014, ACSI had chosen 28 companies as engagement priorities ...

Super fund governance bill enters final debate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... which "seems like a very big change in the context of the overall aim of this bill." Representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) told the committee that the equal representation model was successful in fostering consensus in board ...

SelectingSuper awards super fund of the year

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... awards went to Telstra Super MySuper and ANZ Smart Choice Super - Personal. Finally, LUCRF trustee and former Australian Council of Super Investors chief executive Ann Byrne won the Industry Service Award. "Over the 23 years Rainmaker SelectingSuper ...

Cbus appoints ESG investment manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
... billion fund is Nicole Bradford, replacing Louise Davidson after the latter became chief executive of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) earlier this year. Bradford previously worked with GE Capital as Asia-Pacific environmental ...

SMSFs welcome no dumping of LRBAs

DARREN SNYDER  |  SUNDAY, 8 NOV 2015
... SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery said. "The government does recommend the monitoring of LRBAs by the Council of Financial Regulators and the ATO to review any risks associated with LRBAs, and to report back in three years. This is a similar ...

Growth of women on boards painfully slow: ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... reportedly reflecting an overarching market focus on board gender diversity. The statistic comes from the latest Australian Council of Superannuation Investors' (ACSI) report in to board composition and non-executive director pay among ASX200 companies. ...

Board gender diversity further scrutinised by ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has released new governance guidelines which consider recommending against the re-election of directors in companies which perform poorly on board gender diversity. The guideline dealing with ...

Kinetic Super appoints board director

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
... Leonard also sees the Fund taking continued steps towards gender balanced representation as advocated by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI)," Kinetic Super said. The fund also noted that new governance rules expected to be in place ...