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ACSI to target exec bonus disclosure, voting rights at AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... pre-emptive rights and poll voting as the key issues underpinning the proxy voting recommendations for the forthcoming main AGM season. Ann Byrne ACSI is seeking increased disclosure on how ASX-listed companies set the performance conditions underpinning ...

Shareholders to face activist lobbying on Woolworths vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... from 100 shareholders or 5% of the total number of shareholders. Initially, GetUp had called for an EGM to be held before the AGM, a move Woolworths contested in court. In a court decision last week, a judge ruled that the EGM should go ahead, but should ...

AMP trials smartphone voting for annual general meeting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... want to broaden the opportunities that people have to lodge their proxy form and participate in the voting process in the AGM," said Marnie Reid, AMP head of shareholder services. "We introduced voting online with Computershare a few years ago, with ...

ASA opposes Santos CEO $2m share grant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... normal base salary plus short and long term incentives. The company put the issue on the agenda of the annual general meeting (AGM) as a special resolution outside of the remuneration report. The company decided to award the so-called 2012-2015 four-year ...

CSA warns on timing of undirected proxy vote legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... do so in accordance with existing law." CSA says that if the amendment doesn't pass in time to take effect during the 2012 AGM season, retail shareholders could lose the right to vote on executive remuneration resolutions and there is the risk of triggering ...

Proxy voting error results in Emeco AGM double-count

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Australia (CSA) has advised members to maintain clear polices to identify who can and can't vote on remuneration reports at the AGM. "It's still largely a paper-based model and that's what it comes down to," said Judith Fox, director, policy at the CSA. ...

AMP Capital, VFMC publish 2011 proxy voting record

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... increased engagement with companies over the course of 2011. "We've seen increased number of companies contacting us prior to the AGM to talk thru the upcoming notice of meeting," she said. "Some companies have had the foresight to seek institutional ...

Call for working group on shareholder resolution reform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... managing director calls a lack of clarity around the process of putting shareholder resolutions to an annual general meeting (AGM). Trevor Thomas, managing director of Ethinvest, said that the working group would lobby for legislative or regulatory redress ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... sides, a need for increased engagement between institutional investors and fund managers and company directors outside of the AGM season and better targeted communication. The study and subsequent reaction to it also highlighted questions about the role ...

Elders seeking new markets for live cattle export

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Australian standard, which is why the live impact stuck in our throat so badly in the middle of the year," Jackman said at the AGM. "But we continue to operate to those Australian standards, and now all our live operated and managed, to what is called ...