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Number of women on boards climbs slowly, ACSI finds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... study showed the difficulty of efforts to correct gender imbalance in listed company executive and director ranks," said ACSI CEO Ann Byrne. "There has been progress but the pace of change is slow and women still hold very few leadership positions - ...

Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... the governance arrangements of the CEFC, including the responsibilities, powers and statutory duties of the board, chair and CEO. Those recommendations will inform the drafting o legislation that will be introduced later in 2012 to allow the CEFC to ...

Christian Super allocates $6m to social enterprise fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... unprecedented initiative for Australia with significant scope for changing the social impact investment market," said Foresters CEO Belinda Drew at the time. "For those of us committed to aiding social enterprises and making them sustainable and investment ...

Copper producer joins International Council on Mining and Metals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) has welcomed copper producer Codelco as a member company. Meanwhile, BHP Billiton CEO Marius Kloppers has taken over as chair of the ICMM. "We are pleased to have Codelco aboard as an ICMM member," Kloppers ...

Miners, stakeholders agree to actions in Upper Hunter Valley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... producers know they have to do things differently to minimise the cumulative impacts of mining," said Sue-Ern Tan, NSWMC deputy CEO, said in a statement accompanying the report's release. "We never thought it would be easy to address the challenges that ...

Systemic fault jeopardises proxy vote integrity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... but no system-wide impacts that have eliminated the manual processes," said Dean Paatsch, a governance consultant, former CEO of proxy voting advisor RiskMetrics and a co-convenor of the 2007 FSC roundtable. "There have been incremental improvements ...

ACSI recommend against News Corp board re-election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... opportunity for investors to convey their clear view on improving the composition of the News Corporation Board" said ACSI CEO Ann Byrne. ACSI has recommended to its member superannuation funds that they vote against Andrew Knight, who has served 20 ...

Investor Profile: Local Government Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... across asset classes including Australian shares, international shares, property, and the absolute return and private equity. CEO Peter Lambert talks with The Sustainability Report about the superannuation fund's approach to sustainable investment in ...

Carbon price to have limited impact on superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... corporations, need to know how the value of their investments may change under a carbon price scheme," said Fiona Reynolds, AIST CEO. "While the research suggests that a carbon price of A$23 a tonne will have only a relatively small impact on super fund ...

GRI and ISO agree to closer collaboration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... businesses around the world to improve their sustainability management and reporting practices," said Ernst Ligteringen, GRI CEO. ISO and GRI will also support and promote each other in initiatives related to sustainable development, such as the Rio+20 ...