Spotlight shining on super boards
Demands on superannuation directors’ skills and experience — in a cottage industry which has now become a financial colossus — are much higher than they ever were.
Demands on superannuation directors’ skills and experience — in a cottage industry which has now become a financial colossus — are much higher than they ever were.
Senator Andrew Bragg has called on Cbus chairman Wayne Swan to clarify his Senate testimony, following new revelations about the fund’s CFMEU payments.
The $94bn construction industry superannuation fund didn’t have proper processes to ensure that its ‘partnership’ payments to the CFMEU were in the best financial interest of members, according to Deloitte.
It’s not easy going green when your job is to provide explosives and chemicals to the resources sector, but Orica is giving it a red hot go.
The election of Donald Trump and geopolitical volatility globally make it a scary time for people trying to manage their wealth and prepare for their retirement, says Janus Henderson’s Ali Dibadj.
While there have been many attempts to calculate what tariffs on China would do to Australia, his announcement to also hit friendly nations Canada and Mexico is a sign of what is to come.
Super funds are under pressure to bring their administration in-house as concern grows over the mishandling of insurance claims, Aware Super’s chief executive says.
Industry veteran Geoff Wilson has warned that the proposed tax on the unrealised gains on super funds above $3m could be the ‘thin edge of the wedge’.
Australia can either go down a US-style push to deregulate or continue its current European-style path of increasing regulations on business, says Cochlear CEO Dig Howitt.
Wesfarmers chief executive Rob Scott says retailers should be able to use technology amid rising crime rates and large scale shoplifting.
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