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Sandon Capital to buy carbon farms

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... change in operational and strategic initiatives in order to generate higher returns. It also collaborates with other shareholders to take action. Australia, it believes, has the right legal and regulatory environment to make shareholder activism successful ...

Borrowers pressured for plans as Scope 3 left in dust

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... shareholder resolutions. BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Northern Trust Corp and State Street Corp have had shareholders file resolutions asking for such information.

Deutsche Bank links 33% of long-term bonuses to non-financial targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... growth, combined with cost and risk discipline, enabled us to drive substantial increases in capital distributions to shareholders while making key investments in revenue generation, technology and controls. These investments have started to pay off ...

Big super's plan on fossil fuel return

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) recently accused Santos of not maximising returns for shareholders in its current capex heavy production growth strategy. "Santos shareholders have been increasingly frustrated with the chronic ...

Dramatic spike in votes against ASX remuneration: Georgeson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... board's remuneration report. Under legislation, if a listed company gets two strike votes in consecutive years at AGM, shareholders can then vote to spill the board, requiring directors to present themselves for re-election. That has not yet happened ...

SIX launches share platform for investors, activists

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... first two campaigns SIX is collaborating with groups whose supporter base together represent over 2 million potential shareholders. "The importance in what we're building is that it allows people to play to their strength," Verwey said. "NGOs have ...

Origin CFO retires

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... the tumultuous $10.6 billion takeover bid by a consortium led by Brookfield last year, a deal that was rejected by shareholders, including its largest shareholder, AustralianSuper. AustralianSuper based its opposition to the takeover, which underwent ...

Shell shareholders worth €4tr to vote for Paris

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... the multinational oil and gas company align its medium-term emissions reduction targets with the Paris Agreement. Shareholders will take an advisory vote to update the company's energy transition strategy before the annual general meeting in May. In ...

BlackRock admits stakeholder pressure on ESG a risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... 'ESG', after publicly announcing his decision to integrate ESG risk factors into decision-making in his 2018 letter to shareholders. BlackRock is currently embroiled in an ESG-related lawsuit by the US state of Tennessee, which claimed the firm's ...

Carbon markets heat up

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... the company and consultants BDO to assess whether the offer is fair and reasonable. The board has requested that shareholders take no action as it assesses the offer.