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Legalsuper board addition further corrects gender imbalance

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... and will become the president at the end of this calendar year. Her appointment means that 40% of legalsuper's board directors are now female. "This is above the industry average of 21% and already reaching the industry target of 40%by 2017 as set by ...

NFP directors not engaged in fundraising

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... new study co-funded by the Perpetual Foundation. Perpetual general manager of philanthropy Andrew Thomas urged board directors to take a more active role in fundraising, especially with the pool of government dollars for NFPs drying up. "These days ...

FSC appoints three board directors

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has appointed three new directors to its board. MLC chief executive Andrew Hagger, Perpetual chief executive Geoff Lloyd and Australian Unity Investments chief executive David Bryant will join the board of the FSC. ...

Trustee liability issues surface at PJC

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... there are problems with how the Bill defines the link between investment loss and the legal responsibility of board directors, said FSC senior policy manager Andrew Bragg. Speaking before the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC), Bragg said: "We think ...

Insto's ignoring climate change

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... asset owners challenge super funds is through a social media-style platform that helps people send an email to board directors asking them to explain their fund's allegedly irresponsible investments. Directors are obliged to respond to a 'please explain' ...

Gonski calls for NFP director liability review

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
A safe-harbour provision for board directors of not for profit organisations should be of prime concern for the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC), David Gonski told an industry event yesterday. Speaking at Philanthropy Australia's ...

Perpetual increases NFP scholarships

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... community and NFP sector demand. Following Perpetual's decision, 440 scholarships will now be offered to chairmen and board directors of charitable organisations to attend the Australian Institute of Company Directors' The Not-For-Profit Board or The ...

QIC appoints new board directors

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
QIC, Australia's third largest institutional fund manager with over $58 billion in funds under management, has appointed David Usasz and Grant Murdoch to its board. QIC's Chairman, Peter Young AM, said the new directors had been carefully selected to ...

ACSI helps push News Corp negative vote to 35%

ALEX DUNNIN, CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... sent a message to News Corp that contributed up to one-third of votes cast against the current board. Among the board directors to receive significant negative votes, James Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Natalie Bancroft, Andrew Knight and Arthur Siskind ...

Super funds to disclose pay, raise board governance: AIST

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
A governance framework asking superannuation funds to disclose executive pay and review directors of multiple boards was launched today at the Conference of Major Super Funds on the Gold Coast. The new framework, developed by the Australian Institute ...