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Responsible investment now mainstream

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... Amundi Asset Management has just released its 2018 Super Fund Responsible Investment Benchmark Report. It confirms 70% of boards that oversee Australia's largest super funds actively manage their super funds' environmental, social and corporate governance ...

APRA tells super funds to improve conflict of interest management

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
... of board governance practices in superannuation, which urged super funds to examine the skills and capabilities of their boards.

Productivity Commission addresses superannuation lottery

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
... underperforming funds should be merging with better performing funds. And the best people with the right skills must sit on the boards of super funds," she said. The PC recommends legislation which would require trustees of all super funds to use and ...

Bank distribution head goes green

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... prior to which he spent several years with Dimensional Fund Advisors and Macquarie Group. He also serves on a number of boards, including the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians, Doctors Health Service and The Society of Hospital Pharmacists ...

APRA urges super funds to examine board skills

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
... model and board structure. The findings of its review led APRA to recommend that funds consider the optimal composition of boards in addition to recommending board renewal processes are sound and strike the balance between continuity and diverse perspectives. ...

Spaceship beefs up senior management

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
... Bennetts. Its three-person advisory board includes Paul Dortkamp, Jodie Baker and Sarah Goodman. Dortkamp currently sits on the boards of James Packer's $5 billion family office, Ellerston Global Investments Limited among other appointments. He has served ...

Insto investment committees step away from status quo

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... pension plan itself has cultures embedded into it," Woodhouse added. The investment team participates in project review boards which look at the fund's operation, including the types of financial advice it's providing to members. Woodhouse said the process ...

Government names AFCA board members

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... Credit and Investments Ombudsman (CIO), Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) and Superannuation and Complaints Tribunal (SCT) boards. ASIC welcomed the authorisation by O'Dwyer, saying: "AFCA will be able to deal with complaints about financial firms ...

Vale Terry Mackenroth

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... from November 2000 to July 2005, when he decided to retire from parliamentary duties. Mackenroth went on to serve in other boards and committees, including the Cyclone Larry Appeal and Queensland Floods Appeal. His directorship duties included Queensland ...

Retirement income expert joins SMSFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... founded and led the SMSFA for 14 years before stepping down in 2017. She has since gained non-executive directorships on the boards of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and Argo Global Listed Infrastructure.