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IPA and SPAA sign SMSF collaboration agreement

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... training and support to practitioners who are engaged or interested in advising the SMSF sector. A joint working group of the Boards and Management of both entities will oversee the collaboration.

ESG RA awards Citi, Credit Suisse research

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... Pacific Brands and Primary Health Care. The panel debated a host of ESG issues, particularly the need for more diversity on boards, well-articulated policies on dealing with bribery and corruption, and better understanding of climate change issues in ...

Corporate governance still needs to improve in Asian markets

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... system so investors can be protected when their interests are damaged. "It is important that companies have more diverse boards because that leads to better decision making." "We'd like to see more global investment managers taking governance seriously ...

Gary Clifford awarded Trustee of the Year at CMSF

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... about the fact that the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is overregulating the industry and reminded them that boards of industry superannuation funds know what they need to do and do it seriously. "I hear a lot of debate about what the board ...

Slight lift in women presence on boards: ACSI

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... yesterday. According to ACSI, female board members have gone from 14% last year to 15.5, with 24 more women joining ASX200 boards in 2012. In 2010 the organisation set a benchmark of at least two women directors on each ASX200 company board by 2014 ...

Need action on diversity not just a policy: ACSI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... that of the companies that disclosed the proportion of women in their organisations, 59% report how many women are on the boards, 56% report how many women are senior executives and 67% report how many women they employ. But ACSI, an organisation that ...

Qantas Super takes flight with iqBoard

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... Superannuation board members are using iPads to manage board and committee meetings, joining the ranks of other super fund boards that have done so in recent months. Qantas Super is using iqBoard, an application developed by IQ Group that already use ...

Super Springboard scholarships for women announced

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
... terms of the percentage of female board members, although women make up only around 21 per cent of directors on super fund boards. Super Springboard will help the industry achieve better gender diversity and encourage funds to appoint females to these ...

CheckRisk opens in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
As funds increasingly develop internal investment expertise, trustee boards will need to expand their own expertise to stay in control of their funds, and one way to do this is through an independant risk assessment of their portfolio. Denis Carroll ...

Social media anything but rocket science

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... the social media space today, Gardner told delegates is a natural evolution of old fashioned, community-based bulletin boards. Contrary to popular perception, he reminded delegates that social media in a professional services context - unlike in mass ...