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APRA could oversee stalled super fund mergers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... discussions were derailed by who would get a seat on the table at the new merged fund's board. Energy Super and Equip Super's boards agreed a merger was in best interest of their members. A KPMG report even put a number on this, saying the members of ...

Superannuation smashes gender diversity goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  SUNDAY, 3 FEB 2019
The superannuation fund industry has smashed industry targets of female representation on boards, latest APRA figures show. The number of women represented on boards has increased 9.2% over the last four years, according to APRA's annual super bulletin. ...

Former TAL chief appointed at Swiss Re

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2019
A former boss of TAL joined the Australian boards of Swiss Re. Jim Minto was recently appointed as a director to Swiss Re Life & Health Australia and the firm's advisory board. The former TAL chief executive and managing director currently serves on ...

Royal Commissions puts pressure on finance sector job market: Sunsuper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... demand dropped 9.6% year-on-year according to Sunsuper, whose Australian Job Index tracks digital job advertisements on job boards, employer career portals and recruitment company websites. Formerly known as the Kinetic Super Job Index (prior to the ...

Female board representation increases in Australia: MSCI

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
Latest MSCI research shows more women joined Australian company boards in 2018. The proportion of women holding seats in Australia's boardrooms grew 2.8 percentage points last year. The proportion of female seats in Australian boardrooms now sits at ...

Vale John Bogle

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... financial markets through speeches, public articles and books, of which sold more than one million copies. Bogle served on the boards of various corporations - including The General Accident Group of Insurance Companies and Meritor Financial Group - ...

California mandates gender board diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... about 14% of the 364 California-headquartered constituents of the MSCI USA Investable Market Index recorded had all male boards. Thwing Eastman said Silicon Valley potentially has the biggest hurdle in meeting the 2019 deadline as nearly half of companies ...

IOOF appoints independent reviewer

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2019
... Management (IIML), Australian Executor Trustees (AET) and IOOF Ltd. IOOF said these subsidiaries have already moved their boards to a majority of independent directors and an independent chair. IOOF acting chairman Allan Griffiths said: "We continue ...

Super funds wield bank remuneration stick

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
... Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) said this week that its group of investors had sent a strong message to the boards of NAB and ANZ "that they expect much higher levels of accountability for the misdeeds exposed by the Royal Commission." ACSI ...

Former AFL club president joins super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... looking forward to working with Greg to achieve our strategic goals for members and the fund." Boulton also sits on the boards of Cancer Council SA, Southern Gold Limited, Kogi Iron and Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers.