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Rainy day funds probed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
... pay for possible fines and sanctions. At the beginning of the hearing, Falinski asked University of NSW professor Scott Donald whether creating an indemnity insurance market for penalties risks creating moral hazard for super fund executives, as they ...

Hostplus hits members with new fee

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
... heard that profit-to-member funds are likely to use a range of methods to raise the required reserves. Professor Scott Donald from the University of NSW appeared before the committee and explained that while retail super funds have a parent company which ...

Economics Committee to examine rainy day funds

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2022
... member's funds at risk or increase their fees," he said. The committee will also hear from UNSW associate professor Scott Donald, who specialises in governance within the superannuation sector. "While the regulators will be an important focus of ...

"Financial" in BFID is no big deal: Academic

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
... will be concerning for trustees. University of New South Wales director for centre of law, markets and regulation Scott Donald made the point at public hearings held by economics legislation committee in Sydney this morning. The hearings relate to Your ...

All super funds should have independent chair: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2016
... seven industry recommendations on fund governance. Co-authors Dr Suzanne Le Mire (University of Adelaide) and Dr Scott Donald (University of New South Wales) said the majority of fund executives interviewed felt their boards were functioning cohesively ...

No evidence that independence would boost performance: CIFR

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
... Government has set instilling independence within the governance of superannuation as a key priority for the sector. Dr Scott Donald of the University of New South Wales, who completed the research together with Suzanne Le Mire of the University of Adelaide ...

Regulation is not the only answer: Herbert Smith Freehills

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... in the Cooper report. "Everything gets blamed on poor governance," Herbert Smith Freehills and university lecturer Scott Donald said. "People say it's the reason super is expensive, it's the reason for poor performance," Donald continued. During a session ...

Law firm rubbishes Grattan fee report

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... claims the research is "limited and should not be used to guide policy." A consultant to Herbert Smith Freehills, Dr Scott Donald from the Centre for Law Markets and Regulation at UNSW, said: "The success of the superannuation system in collecting, investing ...

What a member wants

... on whether super fund members should be treated as 'investors' or 'fund beneficiaries', said a governance expert. Scott Donald, director, fiduciary research at Russell Investments, said that the industry's major players and government policy makers need ...

Industry questions dual role of CEO

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... give people freedom to do what they want to do if they can do it well," he said. At the other end of the spectrum, Scott Donald, director fiduciary research at Russell Investments, is not in favour of a chief executive - current or otherwise - joining ...
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