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James Thier retires from Australian Ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... difficult for Australian Ethical to be established today in the way it was then. "In the early days, we didn't have a chief executive, legal counsel, a compliance officer," he said. "Those things came in in the mid/late 90s. If we had to establish an ...

DEXUS appoint Tonianne Dwyer independent director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... track record across listed property, funds management and corporate strategy. As an experienced company director and executive having worked across a variety of international markets, she brings a valuable global perspective to the DEXUS Board," said ...

Interview: Anthea McIntyre, Australian Institute of Company Directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) last week launched Tomorrow's boards: Creating balanced and effective boards, a book that details the current composition of Australia's boards, selection practices and the advantages inherent in ...

ACSI release governance guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... governance risks. These guidelines provide companies with the detail of our expectations" said Ann Byrne, ACSI Chief Executive Officer. In the governance guidelines, ACSI urge companies to disclose ESG policy and strategy within annual reports, with ...

Carbon price package could yield greater than expected reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... more than double Treasury's modelling of domestic abatement through the carbon price alone, said ClimateWorks Australia Executive Director, Anna Skarbek. The reduction in carbon pollution stem from the introduction of a carbon price and the combined ...

Women make strides in recent board appointments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... consequences and are unlikely to result in any cultural change within companies or any improvement in the number of women in executive positions," McIntyre said. "Boards should instead adopt a range of measures for achieving greater diversity which are ...

Regnan appoint Amanda Wilson managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... performance. For both of those, those are questions of age diversity and skills diversity." The third focus for Regnan is executive pay and remuneration and the flow-on consequences for a company for large pay and remuneration packages for CEOs in terms ...

ACSI CEO elected to PRI Advisory Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... 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 (PFZW), and Priya Sara Mathur of US pension fund ...

Board capacity a key governance concern

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... directors to take on the role in light of other positions that they hold on other boards, listed and unlisted, and other executive positions. "Often that discussion ends up with us requesting additional or improved information about nomination processes ...

Citibank Australia appoints Samantha Mostyn non-executive director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
Citibank Australia has appointed Samantha Mostyn non-executive director of Citigroup Pty Limited, the legal entity which trades as Citibank in Australia. Mostyn was a member of the senior executive team at Insurance Australia Group from 2002-2008. She ...