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More women on boards, but cultural diversity stagnating: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
More women are taking director roles, but a shrinking number of women are holding female-occupied seats, raising concerns about overboarding, according to research from the Governance Institute. The Governance Institute has released its latest Board ...

Sustainability, growth drive NextGen family business: PwC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2022  |  NEWS
... could gain from bringing greater attention to the relative roles of their male and female NextGen members. Far fewer of the women NextGens surveyed, 43%, are in leadership roles than are the male respondents, 59%. Not surprisingly perhaps, fewer women ...

Retail demand for thematic ESG ETFs climbs: Investment Trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... types of thematic ETFs they would consider, and more than 50% of all respondents selected renewable energy, with 60% of women saying they favoured a renewable energy thematic. AI was the second most popular thematic, at slightly more than 40%, robotics ...

Identifying female leadership as driver of value: Vontobel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... engages with companies on enhancing diversity practices and female leadership. Roc-Sennett notes that last year forty-one women occupied CEO seats in the US Fortune 500, which is the most evet, but hardly representative of broader population. In Australia ...

Gender imbalance persists in ASX200

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
Less than 10% of chief executive and chair positions in Australia's publicly listed companies are occupied by women, a new analysis of the ASX200 reveals. Women make up 9.5% of chair roles while just 6.5% serve as chief executives, new research ...

Oliver Wyman appoints ex-Westpac exec as special adviser

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... CBA, head of Retail Products in CBA and has also held roles in Barclays and Citibank. Cobley is a member of Chief Executive Women, Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA) and is a graduate of the Australian Institute ...

Super funds react to Rio report into bullying, sexism, racism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... systemic across Rio Tinto worksites, with almost half of the people experiencing bullying. Other findings include: 28.2% of women and 6.7% of men have experienced sexual harassment at work and 21 women reported actual or attempted rape or sexual assault. ...

Magnis appoints Global Impact Initiative founder to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... recently launched the Global Gender Equality Fund is the world's first, actively managed, impact investment fund focused on women and girls. Magnis has also announced the appointment of Claire Bibby as an independent non-executive director. Bibby ...

Demand for sustainability specialists drives salaries upward: Talent Nation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... zero strategies and climate risk, you're in demand." The 2022 data showed a disparity in the gender gap, which found that women on average were paid 8% less fixed remuneration than male counterparts across the sample - average total remuneration for ...

ASX companies in SSGA's sights over climate disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... season, SSGA will expect ASX-listed companies, along with companies in the US, Canada, UK and Europe, to have at least 30% women directors. "We expect this change to result in boards with 3 or 4 female directors on average and as many as 3,000-to-4,000 ...