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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 ...

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 ...