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Women make strides in recent board appointments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... ongoing career development of women in management." The Australian Stock Exchange in 2011 adopted a "comply or explain" policy, asking companies to either increase the diversity of the boards of ASX-listed companies, or explain why not. The policy has ...

Forthcoming GRESB report to benchmark RE environmental, social performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... what a company can provide us are KPIs. IF we only focus on the KPIs, it's a very poor result. That's why we also include policy questions as well, to know what the organisation's policy is." The survey does go into the supply chain, in terms of asking ...

Draft carbon tax legislation "faithful", but tricky in details

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... to implement its carbon tax regime. The Clean Energy Legislative Package is seen as a "faithful" implementation of the policy articulated on 10 July by Prime Minister Julia Gillard. But one legal expert said that the legislative package doesn't answer ...

Board capacity a key governance concern

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... account when considering the appointment or re-election of new directors," said McKay. "We also directed them to VFMC's policy to see what our views are on capacity. Those responses have started coming back in. It's another issue that's going to play ...

Social risk: the impact on the Australian cattle industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... producers who export live cattle to ensure standards, said Lisa Chalk, communications manager at the RSPCA. "The RSPCA's policy has always been one of opposition to live export," she said. "In saying that, our position in the last 30 years has been to ...

ANZ files report for United Nations Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... Australia. The bank also outlined progress and future actions on labour, pointing to materials within the human rights policy and commitments to "ensure fair and safe working conditions, eliminate discrimination and harassment, improve employee engagement ...

Institutional investors back carbon tax scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... industry body 41 profit-for-member superannuation funds with a collective AU$300bn in assets under management said the policy means investors have certainty on the requirements to be imposed on Australian companies. "This certainty will assist superannuation ...

Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... through projects like the CDP and so forth. Q: Do you appoint manages based on ESG characteristics? RM: As set out in the ESG policy, we will take ESG into account when we appoint a new fund manager or undertake a new direct investment. It is something ...

ASIC urges additional executive remuneration disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... between the company's performance and the remuneration of its executives. The four areas of ASICS focus are the board's policy on the nature and amount of remuneration of the key management personnel, the non-financial performance conditions in short-term ...

Mercer: providing education and intervention on ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... for managing the risk. Usually we start with working with the board and we provide board education and then we work on policy with the fund, developing their policy so it becomes a more sophisticated instrument of implementation, rather than broad, bland ...