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Asset consultants influence to grow amid industry change

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... horizons is that you need to be wrong for three or four years before you start to be proved right," he said. "Individuals on boards seem unwilling to stand by the courage of their convictions." Concerns about the level of power wielded by consultancy ...

Blame the G

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012

Funding for women on super boards a union hand out: Cormann

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
Funding announced on Friday to encourage women onto superannuation boards looks like a handout to minister for financial services and superannuation Bill Shorten's "union mates," said Mathias Cormann, shadow minister for superannuation. Rather than ...

AIST champions more women on Super boards

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... well-qualified, experienced and skilled. There simply is no excuse for not having more females represented on super fund boards," she said. Reynolds said some funds - typically those serving male dominated industries - had no female representation and ...

Arena appoints new chair

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... He has also chaired and acted as an executive and non-executive director on a variety of external and subsidiary company boards. Ross brings leadership experience to Arena across the full range of financial, operating and strategic functions from ASX ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... snapped - bottomless this time - in France. Oops, sorry wrong news. What's not supposed to happen are the equity market boards lighting up mostly green when economies around the globe remain in a sorry state. Just ask Markit Economics. The JP Morgan's ...

Indexing reaches all time high

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... despite managers of indexed assets accessing retail investors via platforms. "Volatile capital markets pushing trustee boards to change their attitude to investment risk is expected to act as an impetus to this indexing growth trend," the report said. ...

CEO bonuses tumbled in 2011

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
The top ASX 100 CEO bonuses fell significantly in 2011 due to more mature conversations on executive pay between boards and investors. The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors' (ACSI) 11th annual research report on CEO pay in Australia's largest ...

Cbus takes lead on trustee disclosure

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... game" on remuneration disclosure. "Currently, it is still very difficult to find out the name of the people who sit on the boards of most retail funds, let alone how much they are paid," she said. Industry super funds will become leaders in transparency ...

ISN blasts FSC's independence policy

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... month by the representative body provided mandatory guidelines that said a majority of directors on superannuation trustee boards must be independent. The draft policy, which will become mandatory for FSC members after 1 July 2014, provided a definition ...