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HESTA non-committal on Transfield divestment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... has given no commitment to divest from Transfield Services, following calls for it to do so from the Australian Services Union (ASU). The ASU national executive adopted the resolution on Wednesday, on the grounds that ASU members, most of whom are members ...

CFS outlines post-awards plans

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
Colonial First State (CFS) has revealed how it will approach a post-awards environment, including the use of advisers and targeting business bank customers. The fund management and super arm of banking giant Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... ambition - bringing back the sovereigns that one after the other left Mother Russia's fold in the early 1990s back into the Union - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. He started with Georgia in 2008, doing it now in Ukraine, tomorrow... ??? I don't ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... regard the U.S. with a mixture of dread and disdain. As he sees it, the United States engineered the fall of the Soviet Union and then, lacking its superpower opponent, encouraged East European revolutions and then the removal of Russian allies and clients ...

Greg Sword resigns as CEO of LUCRF Super

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... superannuation extended to all workers and not just a privileged few." Sword is a former National Secretary of the National Union of Workers (NUW), a position he held for 20 years. During that time, Greg oversaw the amalgamation of seven unions to form ...

PROFILE: Centric Wealth CEO Phil Kearns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... and Australian under 21s, which was the launch pad for his international career. But this was in the 1980s, before rugby union went professional. And that meant juggling a burgeoning rugby career with an ordinary paid job. So on leaving university Kearns ...

'Leaner' HSBC hikes profits, bonuses

BEN PERRY, AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... London-headquartered HSBC has controversially unveiled measures to avoid new EU rules on bank bonuses, drawing the wrath of union bosses. This comes after Europe's biggest bank managed a 15.5% A jump in annual net profits and warned about emerging markets ...

Removal of super from awards top priority: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has called for superannuation to be taken out of the modern awards system, a move it believes would improve competition among super funds and ultimately benefit members. In its submission to the government discussion ...

BT reveals post-awards strategy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
BT Financial Group will pitch its MySuper product to at least 30,000 employers via Westpac's business bank should the government proceed with its plan to take superannuation out of modern awards. Vicki Doyle, head of corporate and retail super at BT ...

Asteron Life wins Super Rugby naming rights

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
Asteron Life has partnered with the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) in signing a three-year naming rights sponsorship of the Super Rugby series, which will be known as the 'Asteron Life Super Rugby Tournament' in Australia. Asteron Life executive general ...