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Mandatory trustee pay disclosure draws debate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... companies under a different governance structure, I see them there and they lead the way in all the excesses of executive remuneration." "I see a group of funds like Allco and Babcock & Brown and MFS and Centro, I see the Commonwealth Bank getting mixed ...

Govt response to exec remuneration falls short: Regnan

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... governance firm is frustrated the government has not backed a proposal from the Productivity Commission's executive remuneration report that could better align departing executives interests with long-term shareholders. The Productivity Commission's ...

More super funds to introduce performance pay: survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... stressed that compared with the performance and incentives structure for banks and fund managers, super fund executive remuneration is relatively conservative. For example, a top-performing super fund chief executive could get up to 24 per cent 'performance ...

Super funds back trustee pay disclosure

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... funds including legalsuper, Asset Super and Media Super have all said they are willing to fully disclose executive remuneration, if this becomes the law. Legalsuper chief Andrew Proebstl said that last year, the fund disclosed the remuneration bands ...

Trustee board shake-up overdue

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... She added that trustee boards, currently not mandated to fully disclose their investment decisions and executive remuneration, should also start behaving the way public company boards work, where many decisions pass through a voting system and executive ...

Super fund exec pay under fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... executives. In a separate development, the Productivity Commission today released its discussion draft report on executive remuneration in the country. The Commission said it did not find a general system failure in pay-setting among Australia's 2,000 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... points lower at 4745. In economic news on Wednesday, the Productivity Commission releases its report on executive remuneration, and the Reserve Bank of Australia issues its financial aggregates data for August. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ...

Companies get proactive on corp governance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
Perennial Value Management's investment clout and the industry's growing focus on executive remuneration are prompting listed company chairmen to become more proactive in explaining their corporate governance policies. John Murray, managing director ...

Downturn presents brand opportunity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... identify a superannuation brand. "They describe superannuation as faceless, they talk about fees, performance, executive remuneration and they overall couldn't relate to the people or the brands," said Mitchelmore. Yet at the same time, contrary to early ...

Shareholder activism misses the mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... Management Consultants Association (IMCA), Lynn Ralph, managing director at Cameron Ralph, said focussing on executive remuneration is not effective in changing the culture of a listed company board. "There are a lot of column inches around remuneration ...