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Advice beats alpha as retirement income source

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
... dwarfs the meagre allocations to advice and better education for super fund members." He explained that superannuation fund boards have an opportunity to improve member outcomes if they increase the fund's focus on advice. "Expanding access to advice ...

OPINION: Super is Murray's big rock

ANDREW BRAGG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... reproach. Independent directors will improve conflicts management, decision making and boost diversity on superannuation boards. It will also ensure that superannuation funds start to reflect the same requirements they impose on listed companies that ...

Evolving super sparks C-suite shift

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... what the super industry sees as most important in the long term. In a bid to uncover how super funds are structuring their boards to tackle new technologies, wider availability of data, member retention and regulation, Rainmaker Information recently ...

Labor opposes super trustee governance bill

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... international best practice standards of corporate governance," the report said. "This bill will allow superannuation fund boards to draw from a broader pool of independent directors, increasing diversity. The committee notes the concerns of submitters ...

Super trustee bill before the Senate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... Regulation Authority (APRA) regulated super funds to have a minimum of one third independent directors on their respective boards. The proposal has received mixed industry responses. The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) is one group supporting ...

Colonial First State appoints independent super director

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... director appointed in several superannuation board roles, most notably at Colonial First State Investments. Joining the boards of Colonial First State Investments Limited, Avanteos Investments Limited and Colonial Mutual Superannuation Pty Ltd, is Liz ...

Growth of women on boards painfully slow: ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... than 23% of directorships in the ASX100. ACSI chief executive Louise Davidson said although the proportion of women on boards has doubled over the past 10 years, the rise is painfully slow. "Progress is disappointing in the ASX101-200, with women only ...

Labor questions APRA independence

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... APRA's view is "the breadth of skills and the quality of challenge that occurs when there are independent directors on boards is much greater and therefore that does lead to decisions which ultimately have benefits for members. But it is very difficult ...

TWU attacks retail super funds over board governance

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... benefit its members. The union said a McKell Institute's report, The Success of Representative Governance on Superannuation Boards (June 2014), showed how the current industry fund board model is working. "The figures in this report show members of bank-owned ...

Bowen draws red line on default fund choice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... of interest [in choosing a default fund]," he said. Bowen argued that industry funds are free of conflict because their boards are run by union and employee representatives. "We would not accept any watering down of the very important protections to ...