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Avoid social agendas on ESG: Governance Institute

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018
Governance and risk professionals have rallied against proposals to increase shareholder voices on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. In responding to a survey issued by the Governance Institute of Australia, its members overwhelmingly ...

Church threatens to dump $21bn of fossil fuels

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
One of the UK's largest charity fund managers has voted to sell $21 billion worth of investments in fossil fuels if the companies don't align to climate change goals by 2023. The Church of England's parliament voted 347 to four in favour ...

Active shortfalls see pension fund fee restructure

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... return rates appropriately, to be innovative in seeking excess returns, and to control their management capacity, so a resolution of this issue was regarded as being far off. "In response to this problem, GPIF decided to introduce a new performance-based ...

Former Macquarie equities team launches boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... Pinnacle Investment management's other affiliates include the $7.8 billion Solaris Investment Management, $7.4 billion Resolution Capital, $7.2 billion Antipodes Partners, the $4.6 billion Plato Investment Management, $600 million Spheria Investment ...

Westpac names customer relations executive

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
... service and helping our customers to meet their financial goals." "Appointing a group executive to oversee our customer resolution teams, alongside our corporate affairs and sustainability functions, is an important step in meeting our commitment to ...

Adviser disciplinary regime has holes: AFA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
... with their respective professional associations. The association said the same goes for ASIC and EDR (external dispute resolution) schemes. With ASIC's process of identifying adviser misconduct and subsequently issuing banning orders sometimes taking ...

Royal Commission sees increased ASIC, APRA funding

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... Complaints Authority (AFCA) will receive $1.7 million in 2018-19 to support the establishment of the external dispute resolution scheme. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) suggested the July 2018 start date for AFCA may not be ...

Government names AFCA board members

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... They join independent AFCA chair Helen Coonan in overseeing the Federal Government's new "one-stop-shop" dispute resolution body. Mackay is the principal adviser at Quantum Financial. She is also a director on the Accounting Professional and Ethical ...

CBA enters APRA EU

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... and risks were identified and escalated through the institution and a lack of urgency in subsequent management and resolution. This was linked to CBA's "overly complex and bureaucratic decision-making processes that favoured collaboration over timely ...

Meller to leave AMP immediately

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... and former IAG chief executive Mike Wilkins has been appointed acting chief executive. The board will withdraw its resolution for an equity grant for Meller which was to be broached at the 2018 annual general meeting. Further, group general counsel Brian ...