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Cbus to divest from tobacco assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... manager. See Also: VicSuper, SAS Trustee Corporation to divest from tobacco Australian Ethical puts tobacco resolution to TOMRA AGM Future Fund excludes tobacco producers from portfolio

Corporate governance guidelines on agenda ahead of AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Ann Byrne, ACSI CEO In the lead up to the 2013 annual general meeting (AGM) season, AMP Capital has released its biannual corporate governance report and the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors ...

Two directors stepping down at Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... week. Newnham was appointed to the board on 20 December 2010 and elected as director by shareholders at the November, 2011 AGM. He also took an executive role with Australian Ethical Investment in November 2011. Newnham is quitting Australian Ethical ...

Byrne: Investors' ESG risk awareness increase biggest change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... then more effective." Because Byrne will not leave until the end of October, she will be leading into the start of the next AGM season, and she says that there will be focus on board composition, capital raisings and "the good old thorny issue" of short ...

Australian Ethical Investment board director resigns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... Australian Ethical Investment board director Justine Hickey has resigned, a decision she foreshadowed at the November 2012 AGM. Hickey was re-elected as director at the November 2012 AGM, but she advised shareholders at the time that she would not serve ...

Australian Ethical puts tobacco resolution to TOMRA AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical has put forth a shareholder resolution for the annual general meeting of TOMRA, calling on the Norwegian company to cease manufacturing tobacco sorting machines. Phil Vernon, Australian Ethical managing director TOMRA manufactures ...

Woolworths poker machine vote fails, but push to continue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... Australian Ethical's Climate Advocacy Fund and other activist owners introduced a resolution at the Woodside Petroleum Ltd AGM which would have amended the corporate constitution to require disclosure of the company's assumptions of future carbon prices ...

Boards increasing engagement on remuneration reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... markets in which businesses operate." In addition to remuneration issues, Wilson is also looking towards the Woolworths Limited AGM and the extraordinary general meeting, both to be held on 22 November. At the EGM, shareholders will vote on a motion ...

Operational changes needed to strengthen AGM voting: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... position was not reflected in the investor's reported data." In a third example, a vote at the Macquarie Atlas Roads 2010 AGM, "the custodial voting agent sent a SWIFT message with investors' instructions that did not correctly identify the relevant ...

CEFC Chair Jillian Broadbent to quit as member of ASX board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... (CEFC) Chair Jillian Broadbent will retire from the board of the ASX as of the company's 5 October annual general meeting (AGM). Broadbent is leaving the ASX board to focus on her new role at the CEFC, ASX said in an announcement. To fill the vacancy ...