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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 ...

Gonski calls for NFP director liability review

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... currently being mooted in Canada, Gonski said of primary concern is a safe harbour provision for volunteers acting on NFP boards. "The concept of somebody being liable for the debts of a NFP when all they've been doing is trying to act properly, were ...

Asset Super and CareSuper merger set for October

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... year of delays, industry super funds Asset Super and CareSuper said Friday they would merge on October 26 this year. The boards of the two funds agreed to in-principle support for the merger in September last year subject to due diligence, although it ...

FSC super governance policy forces independence

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
A majority of directors on superannuation trustee boards must be independent, under draft superannuation governance policy released by the Financial Services Council (FSC) this morning. An independent director must also chair the trustee board, and ...

Embedding risk appetite remains tricky

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... they continue to strengthen their risk management practices in response to changing regulatory and market conditions. "Boards and senior management teams are spending a lot of time and resources strategically reviewing, assessing and in some cases, fundamentally ...