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AMP scraps bonuses

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
... leadership teams. Meanwhile, former executives have forfeited long and short term incentives and fees paid to board directors have been reduced. In its 2018 annual report chairman David Murray wrote: "The board understands that many of our shareholders ...

New directors join Frontier Advisors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
Asset consultancy group Frontier Advisors has appointed two new board directors. Cbus board director John Edwards and HESTA board director Deborah Cole have joined the Frontier board. Edwards and Cole will replace long-standing directors Cbus chief ...

Up close and personal: Women in financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
From chief executives to chief underwriters, risk advisers to mental health and consumer advocates, here are the stories of six women in financial services you should know about. Financial Standard has profiled six women from different parts of the ...

Former Morgan Stanley chief to join Westpac board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
Westpac appointed two new board directors, including the former chief executive of Morgan Stanley Australia. Steven Harker and Margaret Seale will join the board of Westpac in March as non-executive directors, and both are set to be appointed to the ...

Blue Sky LIC adds new directors, denied pay rise

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
Two new board directors have been appointed to oversee the Blue Sky Alternative Access Fund. At the same time, a six-figure aggregate increase to the annual remuneration of non-executive directors was not approved by shareholders. Based on proxy forms ...

ASFA welcomes new board directors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia added a further two superannuation industry veterans to its board. Incoming First State Super chief executive Deanne Stewart and Link Group managing director John McMurtrie have been appointed to ...

Cybersecurity fit for a $16bn insurer

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... much liquidity it had to maintain to cover any unplanned cyber events. Talking cybersecurity in a language that board directors understand IAG's Cameron says the dialogue with the board improved after the process, because the company's cybersecurity ...

Industry body names first chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... to lead in the implementation of the next phase of the strategy." The industry body is also welcoming two new board directors in Commonwealth Bank head of governance and assurance Jasper Poos; and Harold Lucero, founder of Lucsan - a regtech recently ...

Failed industry fund merger laid bare at Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... currently have a board director with investment expertise, with Wilson suggesting the board likes to "upskill" board directors with education. "You need someone with a passion for members of the fund. I don't know how you capture that in a skills matrix. ...

Fees for no service an old issue: AMP

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
... the Royal Commission." In terms of accountability, AMP pointed to its chief executive and chair stepping down; board directors taking a 25% pay cut for the remainder of 2018; and the strengthening of its advice governance framework in 2017 among other ...