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Super fund governance bill enters final debate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
The Senate is slated to have its final debate on the superannuation trustee governance bill tomorrow, which at a minimum will see one third independent directors on APRA-regulated super fund boards. The bill could see one last amendment from crossbench ...

Super fund chief in Paris for climate talks

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... issue domestically but they both point to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions over time," Simm said. "The European Union has got a firm, ambitious commitment and it has done since the 1990s. Put those three blocs together and you've got a good ...

OPINION: Super is Murray's big rock

ANDREW BRAGG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
Properly calibrating the superannuation system is the most important policy change from the Murray review of the financial system. Super could be sharper, leaner and easier to understand. That's why the Murray proposals to define the objective of superannuation ...

Super trustee bill before the Senate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... opposite. Currently industry super funds directors are drawn from all walks of life, but by virtue of an association with a union or employer body deemed to be from the same gene pool. Yet four in five directors from bank owned funds are finance industry ...

Club Plus Super increases women on trustee board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation; and the first independent and female director of the Fire Brigades Employees' Credit Union. She is a former chief executive of Qantas Super and is also a non-executive director and treasurer of Girl Guides Australia ...

HESTA chief advocates better tax reform

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... overseas models that recognise and value the important social and economic contribution that carers make. "Almost all European Union members and many South American countries have reformed their pension and retirement systems to address gender equity ...

Labor questions APRA independence

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... opposite." "Currently industry super funds directors are drawn from all walks of life, but by virtue of an association with a union or employer body deemed to be from the same gene pool. Yet four in five directors from bank owned funds are finance industry ...

TWU attacks retail super funds over board governance

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
The Transport Workers' Union (TWU) is calling on the federal government to abolish retail superannuation funds instead of bringing in changes which will "damage the high-performing industry super system." In a scathing statement about the debate on ...

Bowen draws red line on default fund choice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... choosing a default fund]," he said. Bowen argued that industry funds are free of conflict because their boards are run by union and employee representatives. "We would not accept any watering down of the very important protections to ensure that the ...

Nikko AM grows distribution team

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... Australia and with financial services companies Legg Mason Global Asset Management, ABN AMRO Bank, BT Financial and Norwich Union Australia. Simon Green was most recently a business development analyst at Pengana Capital. He also worked for several years ...