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NAB appoints IPAC Securities co-founder to board

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... which was later acquired by AXA and now sits under AMP Group. He has served as a director on trustee and responsible entity boards since the 1990s, and he also has experience as a director on multiple profit and not-for-profit boards. Gupta will succeed ...

Women in Super scholarship open for applicants

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... of three workshops run by rogenSi. The second is the Board Program, which includes a half day workshop run by Women on Boards entitled, 'Getting Started: Realising your board potential'. The scholarship is open to all members of Women in Super. Applications ...

UniSuper still fighting Westfield change

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... bought an apple, and now we are being asked to accept an orange," UniSuper said in an investment update to clients. The boards of Westfield Group and WRT have proposed merging WRT, the jointly-owned Australian and New Zealand shopping centres, and management ...

Former Future Fund MD joins Qantas Super

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... been appointed as a director on the Qantas Super Board. He replaces General Sir Peter Cosgrove, who stepped down from the boards of Qantas and Qantas Super last January to become Australia's Governor-General. Costello has held number high profile roles ...

No clear case for independent trustee quota: Towers Watson

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
The case for the compulsory appointment of independent trustees to the boards of superannuation funds has not yet been made, according a new paper by Towers Watson. The paper comes as the government considers mandating that independent directors comprise ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... abolish over 230 bureaucratic programmes. In addition, we have also methodically reviewed more than 900 government bodies, boards, committees and councils and more than 70 are being abolished to deliver better value for taxpayers. A smaller, less interfering ...

BNP Paribas appoints custody product head

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... before; be it increased regulation - here and overseas - and the need to provide ever-increasing reporting for management and boards as well as improving their risk analysis and response. "We have made significant investment in bringing world class products ...

Mercer launches retirement adequacy index

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... funds and individuals and act as a meaningful wake-up call to get back on track ASAP. "It provides a very clear measure for boards and management of super funds about the impact of both external events and internal decisions, such as campaigns for voluntary ...

Gonski questions concept of board independence

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... Gonski avoided taking an explicit position on whether there should be a quota of independent trustees on superannuation fund boards. However, he was sceptical about the concept of independence. "In my time I've seen many, many outstanding directors who ...

Women on boards have no influence in performance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
The appointment of women in boards does not necessarily affect company performance or shareholder behaviour, research by University of New South Wales professor RenA(C)e Adams has found. Adams, who was speaking at the Platypus Asset Management Symposium ...