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Interview: Anthea McIntyre, Australian Institute of Company Directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... senior policy advisor and legal counsel at AICD, talks to The Sustainability Report. Q: What is the correlation between board diversity and financial/corporate performance? To what extent can it be measured and analysed? AM: There have been numerous ...

ACSI release governance guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Trustees to monitor listed Australian companies'. The guide, which is updated every second year, includes new provisions for board members' workloads, board evaluation, voting based on "one share, one vote" and disclosure of environmental, social and ...

Women make strides in recent board appointments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... selection practices and the advantages of diversity. The book cites research positing there is a key correlation between board and management diversity and improved corporate and financial performance, and offers guidance on the board selection process. ...

Regnan appoint Amanda Wilson managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
Amanda Wilson has been confirmed as the permanent managing director of research and corporate engagement firm Regnan. Wilson joined Regnan as deputy managing director last year, but has been acting MD since February, following the unexpected departure ...

ACSI CEO elected to PRI Advisory Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Responsible Investment's Advisory Council, PRI's strategic governance body. Ann Byrne Byrne is one of six candidates to join the board. Two are asset owners -Else Bos, chief executive of investments at Dutch pension fund Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn ...

Board capacity a key governance concern

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
Institutional investors have flagged the issue of board directors' capacity as a key governance issue. While neither investors, advisory groups, nor the directors believe there should be a hard and fast rule for the number of directorships that can ...

Citibank Australia appoints Samantha Mostyn non-executive director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University. "It is with pleasure that we announce the appointment of Sam to the board" said Richard Warburton, Chairman of Citigroup Pty Limited. "She brings to the role a wealth of experience in corporate ...

Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... order to reduce the sector's environmental footprint and encourage greater transparency. I have also joined the Advisory Board for GRESB. So they [GRESB] will be doing that on our behalf, and that will cover our property investments. That's phenomenal ...

Report: 100 South African companies used GRI in 2010

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
An analysis of South African companies has found that 100 companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) have written sustainability reports based on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidances for the 2010/2011 financial year, up from 86 ...

Colonial First State Global Asset Management reports on responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) has urged the financial services industry to put greater emphasis on pricing ESG issues into investment decisions while releasing a report into their own 2010 responsible investment decisions. Amanda ...