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It's time to step up: Climate Council

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2022
... extreme weather, improve existing energy policies, end government support for fossil fuel expansion and strengthen transparency and accountability.

Trust in financial services jumps: CFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2022
... higher: strong share market performance, fee compression on investment products, a greater level of technology-enabled transparency on investment products, easier access to investment markets and new personalised investment products. Explaining the results ...

MLC Life Insurance joins forces with Insignia Financial

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2022
... administration system, which means we can provide real-time updates to members and the fund themselves. This ensures absolute transparency between all stakeholders involved in the claim," he said.

Super funds back Say on Climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2022
... advisory resolutions can be a useful tool for assessing shareholder support while allowing for more robust targets and transparency in how companies approach how they will adapt to and mitigate climate change impacts. Companies around the world, including ...

UK regulator introduces diversity rules for listed entities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2022
... to collect data from employees to show they are meeting the targets," the FCA said. "These measures will improve transparency on the diversity of company boards and their executive management for investors and other market participants, increasing engagement ...

Rest simplifies super splitting

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2022
... always looking for ways to make superannuation simpler for our members. These changes will complement the new divorce transparency laws that came into effect this month, which are designed to help people split their assets much more fairly." Under the ...

'No easy answer' to ESG disclosures by super fund trustees

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2022
... for misleading information underscore the need for taking a careful, measured approach." Ultimately the demand for transparency and accountability has permeated into social norms and best practice for superannuation fund managers. The days of 'trust ...

End choice dashboard delay: AIST

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2022
... proper because they are default products, but all superannuation products must be held to the same high standards of transparency and disclosure, without exception, because they contain Australians' retirement savings," she said. "This is not currently ...

Labor vows to review YFYS test

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2022
... over the last three or four years the government has put the car in reverse on these issues. Their war on corporate transparency through a tax on proxy advisers, and winding back on director liability are just two examples where there has been a deliberate ...

Westpac now an open book on pay

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2022
... to all employees, with existing contract conditions no longer applicable. It has long been argued that a lack of transparency on remuneration, or pay secrecy, contributes to the persistent gender pay gap. According to the Workplace Gender Equality Authority ...