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Aspen revises fund merger proposal after Sunsuper bid

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... independent expert appointed by KPMG Corporate Finance. Commenting on the new proposal, Zipfinger said, "The Aspen Group board committee is pleased to receive the independent expert's report that supports the board committee's strong view. "The revised ...

AMP adviser, former Shadforth exec join Fortnum

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... have recently joined Fortnum Financial Group. Former SFG Australia managing director Tony Fenning has joined the Fortnum board as a non-executive director. Fenning is also a board director at Class. He was previously the managing director of SFG Australia ...

PROFILE: REI Super chief executive Mal Smith

DARREN SNYDER, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... that in a rising market, before things start to go south, we were operating the portfolio in a balanced way," Smith says. Board members "take an agnostic view on the asset class because in the trustee board table there is a fairly good knowledge of how ...

Colonial First State appoints independent super director

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... management division has announced a major hire that will see an independent director appointed in several superannuation board roles, most notably at Colonial First State Investments. Joining the boards of Colonial First State Investments Limited, Avanteos ...

Growth of women on boards painfully slow: ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... financial year 37% of new director appointments in the ASX100 were women, reportedly reflecting an overarching market focus on board gender diversity. The statistic comes from the latest Australian Council of Superannuation Investors' (ACSI) report in ...

Labor questions APRA independence

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... protecting the financial well-being of the Australian community." Super fund returns have become a lively debate in the midst of board governance proposals that would see super funds have one-third independent directors. Rowell said APRA's view is "the ...

Not this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... they are also not thinking about adding to staffing levels. But we don't need our imaginations for this, the Conference Board's latest consumer confidence survey -- the index dropped to 97.6 in October from 102.6 in the previous month (downwardly revised ...

Christmas in October

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... in the Fed funds rate... and soon. Our very own Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is lucky. By the time Gov Glenn and his Board meets on Tuesday next week (3 November Melbourne Cup Day), the RBA would have the whole hog on what its bigger peers have done ...

Beware 'apples with apples' super comparisons

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... apples with apples." Super funds' investment performance has been a key issue in the debate on proposed changes to super board governance, particularly between retail and industry funds. Rowell said a more meaningful "apples with apples" comparison is ...

TWU attacks retail super funds over board governance

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... changes which will "damage the high-performing industry super system." In a scathing statement about the debate on super board governance, TWU said industry super funds provide better returns for their members and have significantly outperformed bank-owned ...