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Social issues and climate dominate engagement: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... COVID-19 was high on the agenda, said Benjamin Colton, global co-head of asset stewardship at SSGA. "We wrote a letter in early April to companies to express that as long term shareholders we stood behind them as they navigated the existential threat ...

Government reforms aim for increased super transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... announced that the long-deferred deadline for the first reporting date on PHD was to be 31 December of this year. However, in April ASIC said it would defer the launch again due to the impacts of COVID-19. A spokesperson for ASIC told FS Sustainability ...

Ban on waste export presents risks, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... Investment Management has identified plastic waste as an area of risk, with Mans Carlsson-Sweeny telling FS Sustainability in April that if a business model relies on underpriced pollution or weak regulation of waste, it has implications for long term ...

Majority of super funds not disclosing portfolio holdings: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... announced that the long-deferred deadline for the first reporting date on PHD was to be 31 December of this year. However, in April ASIC said it would defer the launch again due to the impacts of COVID-19, although it has not yet clarified when that ...

Governance key concern for AGM season: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... raisings are a renounceable rights raising." Following the ASX's introduction of temporary emergency capital raising relief in April due to the pandemic, more than $33 billion has been raised through 72 capital raisings, mostly as placements, and at ...

Governance Institute backs recommendations for virtual AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... virtual and hybrid AGMs - recently, Lyn Nikolopoulos, company secretary at CIMIC Group, reported that that company's April AGM was complicated by the fact that their constitution did not permit the company to hold a totally virtual AGM, which resulted ...

Company secretaries weigh challenges, opportunities of virtual AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia to each company's AGM during the min-AGM season. Woodside Energy's AGM was 30 April, and Bailie noted that the key challenges was setting up the technology to enable the speeches, including full rehearsals for ...

Northern Trust expands ESG Insights risk analytics suite

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... through its Investment Risk and Analytical Services group. It complements the ESG Insights: Ratings Summary, launched in April this year, which provides investors with periodic snapshot analysis across their portfolios, setting out investment 'scores' ...

ACCR files resolutions with BHP, AGL for AGM votes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... that the 2020 AGM season will be virtual or hybrid, Gocher noted that the companies that piloted virtual AGMs during the April/May mini-AGM season managed their processes and "improved" through the time period. "They got better with both the technology ...

KPMG outlines focus on gender diversity in ASX201-300 company boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... pipeline in executive and upper management, according to research from KPMG. Sarah Cain, partner, KPMG As of the end of April 2020, 30.7% of ASX200 board positions were held by women, according to the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) ...