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ACSI welcomes new member

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2017
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors is increasing its scope of influence with a new addition to its membership base. Corporate superannuation fund Qantas Super, which manages more than $7 billion in funds, will join 35 other Australian ...

Former Future Fund MD joins HESTA

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... and insights that give us further specialist expertise that can supplement the skills and experience we already have at board level." "In a constantly evolving and complex investment marketplace it's vital to have the right governance arrangements in ...

ESG risk tool launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... covering issues like engagement and co-ordination; systematic strategy and integrating planning; feedback and review; and board involvement. Public companies for instance, should integrate ESG matters into their existing investor engagement schedule ...

Financial advice standards body revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... and an academic. Former NAB director Catherine Walter has been appointed as inaugural chair. Responsible for maintaining board cohesion and uniting board directors of differing backgrounds to professionalise the advice sector, Walter also currently serves ...

Hunter Hall LIC chair ousted

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
The chair of Hunter Hall Global Value (HHV) has been removed from the board following a tense extraordinary general meeting yesterday. In February, Wilson Asset Management chair Geoff Wilson lodged a requisition of shareholdings meeting to remove HHV's ...

Suncorp appoints non-executive director

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
Suncorp has filled a board vacancy with the appointment of a new non-executive director. Joining Suncorp's board is Simon Machell. He is currently a non-executive director and chairman of the risk committee at Prudential Corporation Asia, and chairman ...

Praemium details former chief executive's sacking

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
Praemium's chair has detailed the difficulties he and the board faced in the lead up to sacking chief executive Michael Ohanessian. The situation came to a head in January 2017, when Ohanessian presented a lengthy document to chair Greg Camm refusing ...

Super fund private equity demand growing

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... foreseeable future. One significant issue that hasn't received proper attention is the impact of the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) regulation, Minter Ellison partner and expert corporate and acquisition transactional lawyer Victoria Allen pointed ...

QIC reorganises SA infrastructure business

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... Global Infrastructure business. The changes we are announcing today have been undertaken to maintain a strong independent board at Epic Energy, and to focus skilled resources in other key areas," QIC Global Infrastructure head Ross Israel said. "Laura ...

Mobile education drives advice professionalism

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... and professional development space, recognising an opportunity in the reforms. "The bottom line is, once the new Standards Board - once it's established - decides what it is these new standards are going to be, there is going to be a rush of currently ...