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ASX firms snub climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... some companies providing no strategy at all. Although, nearly 40 per cent of those high impact firms could provide a corporate climate change commitment, only four per cent of companies linked the climate change strategy to board or senior management ...

IUS hires ex-Tower manager

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... manager - planning and business development. Rowe was recruited from Tower Australia where he held the role of manager, corporate markets. Rowe has over 30 years in the Australian insurance industry. "Stuart is well known and well respected in the group ...

APRA to review super fund stats

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... these numbers to publish the performance of the different fund sub-sectors such as industry, public sector, retail and corporate. Using the metric 'return on assets' (ROA), it reported that in the March quarter, industry and public sector funds lost ...

Omega recruits head of operations

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... with external service providers, developing operational presentations for clients and prospective clients, managing the corporate finance function and providing strategic input to the business at an executive level. During his career, Dunlevie has also ...

Gen Y risks high fees

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... many employees particularly those in the Gen Y bracket could face hiked super fees, particular as super funds offer corporate deals on fees and insurance, often to larger employers, to secure default fund status. "In most cases these special corporate ...

Contribs tax for women under review

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... the government can help narrow the gender gap on retirement savings. Senator Sherry, minister for superannuation and corporate law, told journalists at question time of an industry forum yesterday that one way the super savings of women could be increased ...

Introducing the Burnie Pub PDS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... four-page forms by creating a template to prove it can be done. Today Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, and Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, announced new reforms to how PDSs should look like, ahead ...

Plan Protect buys boutique firm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... positioned us for growth. A lot of [Bearsden's] client base are executives in big companies and we want to get into corporate financial planning," said Ashton. She said the firm did not expect to purchase any more financial planning practices for the ...

Smaller funds to plateau

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... the industry consists of between 50 to 100 players in the next five years. Unsurprisingly super funds, particularly corporate funds in the $100 to $200 million bracket, are increasingly vulnerable to consolidation as administration and licencing fees ...

Fundies use proxy voting

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... the fund managers used the full weight of their proxy voting power was on promoting shareholder rights and weakening corporate takeover defenses.