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AFCA appoints chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... charities in England and Wales. Locke advised several international governments on the regulation of NGOs and has served on the boards of charities and not-for profits. He qualified as a lawyer in the UK and started his career in community legal centres. ...

Asset manager awards admin mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... solution that slashes the managed funds application process to five minutes. FUND.ID, a straight through processing system, on-boards new clients using an electronic signature and bank level encryption. It's able to identify retail investors and ...

AMP Capital appoints new chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... after she resigned as the board chair. Wallace is being replaced by the chair of AMP's responsible entity and trustee boards, John Nesbitt. Nesbitt was previously Suncorp Bank's chief executive, having joined Suncorp as group chief financial ...

BTFG boss backs PC super proposals

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... Ten million duplicate funds were found, which could erode retirement savings. Also, poor governance practices on trustee boards prevented fund merger that could have made the system more efficient. The report pitched the reform as adding $3.9 billion ...

CYBG revises Virgin Money offer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... share and upon completion Virgin Money shareholders will own about 36.5% of the combined entity or a 7% improvement. The boards of CYBG and Virgin Money said the proposed merger would "create the UK's first true national banking competitor, offering ...

Cromwell appoints new director

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... Levy AO, Paul Weightman, David Blight, Leon Blitz, Michelle McKellar, Jane Tongs and Marc Wainer. Blight will sit on the boards of both Cromwell Corporation Limited and Cromwell Property Securities Limited. He is not currently on Cromwell's committees ...

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 ...