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Get ready for activist members, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... links to Israel. She said that environmental and social protesters tend not to distinguish between company management, boards and shareholders, and thus will view major shareholders equally culpable for perceived unethical actions. She also touched on ...

Women in Super NSW scholarship winners named

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... Roberts. The scholarship programme is designed to enhance professional skills and encourage the appointment of women onto boards which aligns with the objectives of Women in Super. The announcement was made at the recent Women in Super networking event ...

Independent trustees fix wrong problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... new research released by the McKell Institute. In the report 'The Success of Representative Governance on Superannuation Boards' the authors - professor Raymond Markey, Dr Louise Thornwaite and associate professor Sue Wright from Macquarie University ...

ACCI calls for end to super in awards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... conference, will be a particularly hard blow to industry funds, as ACCI represents many of the employer groups who sit on their boards. ACCI chief operating officer John Osborn said: "There is no defensible public policy reason why the Fair Work Commission ...

CBA sees two top execs step down

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... not to remain in his current role." Blair will continue in full time employment with CBA and will remain in the group's boards in China, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Blair joined CBA in 2006 as chief executive officer of Sovereign Insurance and ...

Mercer appoints two independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
Mercer has appointed three new directors to its Australian entity boards, including two new independent non-executive directors. Melissa Babbage will join the Mercer Investments (Australia) Limited (MIAL) board, while Jan Swinhoe will join both the ...

Most super boards have no independent trustees

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... interests inherent in the representative director model is another challenge, but not an insurmountable one, as Trustee Boards continue to evolve in their role as stewards of the nation's retirement savings." John Pearce, chief investment officer of ...

Giant NSW fund names investment team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... allocation of the funds controlled by SRWSD, STC and TCorp will remain with each of the separate entities and their respective Boards. "Amalgamated functions within the three entities will include appointment of investment managers, due diligence, funds ...

Platinum and Iress named 'laggards' on sustainability

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... financial reporting, can undermine effective communication of these longer-term measures of business success by company boards to their owners. "Investors, such as ACSI's members, need meaningful, accurate, timely and comparable data to help them identify ...

PROFILE: State Street Global Advisors CEO Lochiel Crafter

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... the finance sector, floor operator in the stock exchange, required similar skills: "It was the time when there were chalk boards and people writing the exchanges in pieces of paper," he recalls. Thanks to his mathematical and statistics degree, he was ...