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CORRECTION: AFA COO joins netwealth

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... licensees and planners. His appointment follows that of Bruce MacDougall as chief financial officer and Mary Limperis as head of human resources. Both of them joined from the Colonial First State custom solutions executive team. CORRECTION: An earlier ...

Manus and Nauru are immoral and risky: super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... Standard that the organisation engages with companies on behalf of its members when they have concerns over issues such as human rights, corporate governance or executive remuneration. Transfield is one of the 140 companies that ACSI has engaged with ...

Australian managers most focused on ESG

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... director Jon Lukomnik said. The research also concluded that the top three issues in decision-making are board accountability, human capital, and executive compensation. The research was drawn from online survey conducted from 26 May to 5 June 2015. ...

HESTA divests from Transfield

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... non-reviewable nature of detention at asylum seeker processing centres "breaches the fundamental principles of international human rights law." The findings do not fit with HESTA's environmental, social and governance (ESG) policy. "As a responsible ...

Altius fund added to netwealth platform

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... excluded from the investment universe if they are involved in causing or perpetuating injustice and suffering; infringing human rights; supporting oppressive regimes; animal testing for cosmetic purposes; having unacceptable environmental management ...

Berkeley scientist develops game for advice clients

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... likely individuals with no formal credit rating are to default on micro-finance loans in developing countries and for use by human resources teams in optimising decision makers within organisations.

Crowe Horwath progressing growth ambitions

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... individually elsewhere." Duke is already making progress towards his growth ambitions, adding new staff to the marketing and human resources teams and is looking for more partners to join the firm. "We still have guys out there looking for further acquisitions ...

Rethinking robo regulation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... Michael Vrisakis, the wording of current legislation only considers the administration of advice between a client and a human adviser. "Trust is the most important plank in the system as laid out in the regulation. How can a machine respond to fiduciary ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... liquidity, though, are more complex, and necessitate a more nuanced understanding of what "alternatives" actually are. "The human brain likes to put things into buckets," says Blue Sky Alternative Investments chief investment officer Alexander McNab ...

Member engagement a danger to super savings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
A high level of engagement with superannuation savings can lead members to make the wrong move at the wrong time, industry execs have warned. "The joke is that often if you're disengaged with your super, ironically it can be good," State Street Global ...