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Challenge your consultants on ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... having served as director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in Geneva and a senior adviser to the Secretary General of the U.N. Earth Summit in 1992. He has written a book titled 'Investing in a Sustainable World'. "It's your ...

Shorten takes on superannuation portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Bill Shorten, former Parliamentary secretary for disability services and AustralianSuper and Victorian Funds Management Corporation director, has been appointed minister for superannuation while former superannuation minister Chris Bowen takes on the ...

StatewideSuper appoints new board member

STATEWIDE SUPER ANNOUNCEMENT  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... directors of StatewideSuper, South Australia's largest super fund for the private sector. Steel is currently assistant secretary of the Australian Services Union (ASU) SA/NT branch and has almost 20 years' public sector and union experience. He joined ...

Numero Dos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
... rate. This means that Japan's economy barely grew in the three months to June. According to Bloomberg, parliamentary secretary at Japan's Cabinet Office Keisuke Tsumura admitted to reporters that because of the disappointing economic growth result, "Japan's ...

Maritime Super backs internal admin for merged fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... $100,000. We don't have the issues [relating to] low account balances," he said. Previously, Paddy Crumlin, national secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia, said the merged fund could provide lower fees and better services to members. "We've had ...

US Congress passes Wall Street reforms

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said the Dodd-Frank reforms approved by the US Congress this week will ensure that banks, not taxpayers, will pay for future bank failures, and protect consumers from Wall Street greed. Yesterday the 'Wall Street Reform ...

Nationwide signs Mercer for asset consulting

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... re-tendered for the contract, after their five-year contract with the fund expired in June this year. Ian Morante, fund secretary at Nationwide Superannuation, said the trustees were impressed with Mercer's research and service. "Mercer presented a good ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... at 4,428. In economic news on Wednesday, Treasurer Wayne Swan will release revised economic forecasts, and Treasury secretary Ken Henry is scheduled to address a Committee for Economic Development of Australia luncheon in Melbourne with a speech entitled ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... releases lending finance data for May, and National Australia Bank releases its monthly business survey for June. Treasury Secretary Ken Henry appears before the Senate Select Committee on Fuel and Energy in Canberra. The Australian Office of Financial ...

Maritime and Auscoal Super in merger talks

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... larger funds to provide lower fees and better services, but it's a case-by-case basis," said Paddy Crumlin, national secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia. "We've had two internal funds merge [Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund and the Seafarers ...