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Boards have responsibility to manage ethics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... Fairfax Ethics in Leadership Foundation and offers programs to encourage ethical leadership in organisational leaders. When boards operate with too narrow a view of their responsibilities, they risk developing tunnel vision and fail to recognise the ...

No all male-boards on ASX200 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
There are no more ASX200 all-male boards, according to the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). Silver Lake Resources Limited, announced the appointment of Rebecca Prain as a non-executive director 17 August, while Kogan.com appointed Janine ...

Women make strides on ASX300 boards, but cultural diversity lags

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
The number of women on boards of ASX300 companies has risen by 60% in the past five years, but cultural diversity has not kept pace. The Governance Institute of Australia and Watermark Search International have released the Board Diversity Index, which ...

Governance Institute taps former ASFA CEO for role as chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... change, cyber risk, and the changing notion of consumers are just some of the issues that will require an evolution of our boards, our company secretaries and risk professionals." Vamos is a non-executive director of Mercer Superannuation Australia Limited ...

Companies failing harassment victims: ACSI

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... concluded that accountability for stamping out sexual harassment needs to start at the board level. Jenkins said she recommends boards have expertise and training in this area, so that they can ask informed questions of management on the issue of sexual ...

Banks face multi-billion risks from climate change: Accenture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... risk management, and that's the quantitative aspect of the climate vulnerability assessment." Accenture advises bank boards to incorporate "climate risks in risk management frameworks, policies and procedures, as well as key management information ...

ASIC reviewing greenwashing in financial products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... management space," similar to the way that ASIC has reviewed how large, listed companies disclose their climate risk. "Boards should be mindful that prohibitions in the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) on misleading and deceptive conduct and false or misleading ...

ASX200 CEO pay drops to lowest levels in more than decade: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... receiving zero bonuses and median realised pay for ASX100 CEOs falling by 3.6% to $3.99 million. "The research shows that boards have responded positively to more than a decade of active investor engagement and are now better aligning short and long ...

CEO, board salaries cops COVID-19 hit: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... of short-term incentive in the last 12 months, going from 74% to 64%. "The story behind the stagnation is that broadly, boards and executives have responded to the crisis at hand, the uncertainty in the market and community expectations," said Governance ...

Hostplus announces four board appointments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... but there is no legal obligation for trustees to act on the direction of members in that forum. "Generally, directors on Boards don't have the power to dismiss each other," he said. "The mechanism by which a single director could be singled out and removed ...