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Coalition wants fund governance changes: Fletcher

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
Paul Fletcher, the Liberal Party member for Bradfiled who sits on the Parliamentary Joint Committee on corporations and financial services, has voiced the Federal Opposition's concerns about superannuation fund governance. Speaking yesterday in Melbourne ...

Insto's ignoring climate change

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) and Shartru Capital. Through AOPD Hewson, a former leader of the Australian Liberal Party and Reserve Bank economist wants to name the investment institutions -including superannuation and pension funds - that are ...

Future Fund 'under-resourced' on climate risks

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... suffered "resource constraints." Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) Chair Dr John Hewson and former leader of the Liberal Party said: "It is quite extra-ordinary that Australia's largest fund which will have to supply pension liabilities over the ...

ACT prohibits guns & smokes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... negative screening, he said. The minority Labor government in the ACT means the Greens will need the support of the Liberal Party for these extended provisions to pass the ACT's unicameral parliament. The anti-tobacco investment restrictions have been ...

Future Fund not for sale: Wong

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... allegations that it was planning to withdraw funds from the Future Fund, clarifying its actions and criticising the Liberal party's lack of understanding. The Government's predicted revenue from the sale of non-financial assets sparked interest after ...

Former Liberal leader named Equiti Capital chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... and Opposition leader, Dr John Hewson AM, as its new chair. Opposition leader from April 1990 to May 1994 for the Liberal party, Hewson was formerly an economist for the Australian Treasury (Census and Statistics), the Reserve Bank of Australia, the ...

Bank of Melbourne relaunches with plans for 90 new branches

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... Shorten attending the ceremony at the Richmond branch in Melbourne alongside Victorian Treasurer Kim Wells, from the Liberal party. Elizabeth Proust, chair of the new Bank of Melbourne board was also present to help the celebrations.

Pollies clash over SG

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... "belligerent". Speaking at a union's investment forum in Sydney on June 17, Shorten told attendees that within the Liberal party's opposition to the increase, some Liberal MP's were actually in favour of the move, reported AAP. "I think there's a schism ...

Russell heads back to Canberra

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... Russell is replacing Howard government appointee Mark Paterson AO who is heading back to Sydney to work with the new Liberal Party NSW state government. At the time of his appointment in 2001 Paterson was controversial as the then chief executive of ...

PM Gillard makes wealth reforms more likely

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... in 2004 following the collapse of the Australian Democrats that saw its middle class voter base return to their Liberal Party origins. The Victorian ALP's preference deal miscalculation that paved the way for the election of Senator Fielding only added ...