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MyState names new CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... be paid a fixed salary of $550,000 per annum including super, with a short-term cash bonus of up 50% of his fixed remuneration (FAR), and a long-term MyState shares bonus of up to 50% of his FAR. MyState chairman Miles Hampton said of the appointment ...

Government to pass most FoFA changes through regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... legally possible," Cormann said. The statement is largely focused on commissions, incentive payments and conflicted remuneration in financial advice, which has been the most controversial of the government's proposed amendments to FoFA. The initial commissions' ...

SPAA voices concern over conflicted remuneration

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... Committee decision to back the government's amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) law on conflicted remuneration. The organisation also said it "strongly supports the catch-all provisions of the best interest duty," as well as the other ...

Finding alpha in ESG

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... series was a highly useful body of work that was able to assist proxy voting decisions and company engagement on remuneration issues," ESG RA said. Eighteen papers were nominated this year, 10 by Elaine Prior from Citi Research and the rest from Credit ...

ASIC asks FSI for more flexible toolkit

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... added that ASIC had learnt lessons from the collapse of Storm, and other high profile scandals. He blamed conflicted remuneration structures and a lack of consumer understanding and called on the FSI to revisit recommendations from the previous review ...

Going solo: Australian equity houses at risk of talent exodus

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... "I don't necessarily see this transpiring in the small cap space if teams are already appropriately aligned from a remuneration perspective," he said. "I think post-GFC there is generally a higher level of risk aversion within the industry that favours ...

Murray shuns FoFA commissions' debate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... is important to look through any business that comes to our side through brokers, because that's driven by its own remuneration system." Murray did not take questions from journalists and did not reveal to which extent the FSI will focus on financial ...

CBA, CSSA promote FoFA legal loophole

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... Bank of Australia and the Corporate Super Specialist Alliance (CSSA), would get around current bans on conflicted remuneration by amending the Corporations Act so that businesses are considered wholesale rather than retail clients. Wholesale clients ...

Governance eclipses social and environmental concerns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... there was at least one vote against management, or an abstention. Of those, 43% related to board structure, 21% to remuneration, 16% to pre-emption rights and 12% to 'shareholder interests'. Just 1% related to social or environmental factors. AXA IM ...

CBA wants Senate to fix corporate super advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has expressed concern that the ban on conflicted remuneration will affect corporate superannuation advisers and has asked the Senate inquiry into the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) to find a way to solve the issue. The bank ...