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NCSF and Catholic Super to merge

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... process," said Peter Rush, chair at NCSF. Catholic Super's chair Peter Bugden stressed that it's very important for both boards that no NCSF or Catholic Super member will be disadvantaged following the move. "As one fund, we will continue to be a low-fee ...

Ipac appoints chief

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... distribution and, separately, product and marketing. He also served as a director on AXA's advice business and Tynan Mackenzie boards. As chief executive, Swindells will oversee AXA's advice business in Australia and Asia and assist in integrating both ...

Pay to perform

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... "termination benefit" to include all forms of payment and rewards given at termination. "The change flagged should put boards under notice - particularly those which are looking at awarding any of their outgoing top executives huge packages after shareholder ...

APRA outlines priorities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... requirements to which APRA's supervised institutions are already subject to, Laker said. The framework would make company boards responsible for remuneration arrangements. Those boards should extend their stewardship of remuneration to all groups whose ...

IBM Cognos measures credit risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... transparency of their systems in general. "That's about increasing transparency on their risk and governance policies, which boards are demanding and in some case, driven by the request of stakeholders." This means that even when companies are forced ...

Local super funds welcome Obama admin move

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... to have a lag in performance in regards to disclosure and executive renumeration and the genuine independence of their boards." Financial services governance is certainly 'front of mind' for leading investment executives and pension funds with the largest ...

AWM consolidates RSE licences

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... Australian Wealth Management spokesperson said that is unlikely to occur. She said the SMF Funds Management and Questor boards would remain unchanged, so it was unlikely there would be any changes to the products, nor would it affect fund members. This ...

Morgan Stanley and Citi to merge

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... to Bank of America for US$50 billion to survive these turbulent times. The transaction, which has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies, is expected to close in the third quarter subject to regulatory approvals and other customary ...

Consolidation is not the answer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
... number of trustees produced better returns than their peers according to new research, suggesting calls to downsize trustee boards could be counter-productive. The global financial crisis and its impact on super fund performance re-ignited industry debate ...

AvSuper unlikely to follow govt fund mergers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... three government super funds to form a single trustee board. This follows a government announcement in October that trustee boards of Australian Reward Investment Alliance (ARIA), the Military Superannuation and Benefits Scheme and the Defence Force ...