EY

Governance

Reporting on workplace safety falling short

Workplace health and safety impacts every Australian worker. An incident or fatality at a workplace has a huge impact on the individual, their family and their colleagues, and it’s an issue that investors should be made aware of.

Louise DavidsonMarch 2, 2020

Insurance

Mental health: stay in the green zone

The Federal Government is turning its eye to the economic impact of mental health, making workplace early intervention a hot topic

Alice UribeNovember 14, 2018

Industry View

Impact investing: A force that transforms

Impact investment is disrupting capital allocation and reforming the not-for-profit sector, writes EY's Christopher Thorn.

Christopher ThornDecember 7, 2017

Insurance

Group therapy for group insurance

As the group insurance sector tries to stave off a regulatory revolution, super funds and their providers are looking for ways to evolve.

Simon HoyleMay 5, 2017

Hedge Funds

The case for listed infrastructure

Growing capacity to invest, cheaper valuations than equities and low interest rates were all cited as tail winds for listed infrastructure at an IMCA lunchtime seminar in Sydney on Friday. The key challenge to this rosy picture for the asset class at the seminar was a difference of opinion on how far interest rates would […]

David RowleyJune 1, 2015

Roundtables

The impact of new reporting standards on the operations of funds and their advisers

How are the people responsible for ensuring accurate and timely measurement of financial performance and compliance obligations coping with new APRA requirements? A group of chief financial officers, their advisers and service providers met to discuss the issues. A pdf copy of the discussion “All funds agree that there needs to be more information delivered […]

David RowleyFebruary 4, 2014

Investment Strategy

2014 – the hardest year yet for compliance

Those helping super funds to manage their investment data report an industry groaning under the weight of more compliance than it has ever faced before. Providers say the cost of increased workloads and systems build will be passed back to members, while opportunity costs are being incurred from the holding up of innovation. DST Global […]

David RowleyJanuary 20, 2014

Governance

Cyber crime threat to superannuation

In a bid to protect members’ data and money from hackers, First Super is considering the practicality of completely isolating its member database from the internet. Under its plan, no terminal that can access the master database will be connected or connectible to the internet. This might seem far fetched and some in the industry […]

David RowleyNovember 25, 2013

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