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ACSI sets goal of 30% women on ASX200 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... will address the issue in the near term, and, in "the worst cases", ACSI may recommend to members to vote against re-election of directors in those companies. Gender diversity of board appointments and executive management is a long-term issue of engagement ...

PRI announces new Advisory Council members

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... Investment Initiative (PRI) has announced that Geeta Aiyer has joined the PRI Advisory Council following its annual signatory election. Aiyer is president and founder of Boston Common Asset Management, and will take up the investment manager position. ...

Future Super launches as first fossil-fuel free fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... former national director at GetUp!. Verway Sheikh met whilst campaigning as Green Party candidates in ACT at the last election, Verway said. Post-election, both decided to find other means to influence the process of divestment from fossil fuels, he ...

Christian Super to merge with Australian Christian Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Christian Super will merge with Australian Christian Super in October, the fund has announced. "We get a strategic increase in our membership - an increase of 20% - which is fantastic," Peter Murphy, CEO of Christian Super, told The Sustainability Report. ...

Senate rejects CPM repeal, business calculates liabilities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Greens. The Senate vote to reject "signifies an intensifying of the carbon debate in the lead up to the April 5 Senate re-election in Western Australia," RepuTex said. The federal government will also start its second pass at repealing the Clean Energy ...

South Australia government to support Good Money store

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Mooney South Australian Premier Jay Wetherill has said that if the Labor government is re-elected at the state's 15 March election, it will commit AU$3.6 million over the next four years to Good Shepherd Microfinance to open and support a Good Money ...

Willingness to pay affects BlackRock sovereign debt scores

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Pay score has risen based on the opinion poll popularity of Jakarta governor Joko Widodo in next year's presidential election. Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Taiwan, Australia, Canada and New Zealand were the in the top 10 ...

Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... opposition to Dunlop's candidacy. "This year, an individual retail shareholder has nominated an additional candidate for election: Ian Dunlop," Nasser said in the invitation from the chairman. "The Board, assisted by the Nomination and Governance Committee ...

Corporate governance guidelines on agenda ahead of AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
Boards of listed companies are more proactively seeking out meetings with active investors and engagement organisations, and in an unanticipated benefit of the impact of the two strikes rule, engagement specialists are saying boards are more receptive ...

EY: Businesses need long term carbon policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... long term, Nelson said. "The point I'd make is that the concern is that we won't get that policy certainty after the election," Nelson said. "If we do go down the path of a Direct Action Plan, it is important and incumbent on that government to establish ...