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AMP Capital, VFMC publish 2011 proxy voting record

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Under the two-strikes rule, shareholders in Australian publicly listed companies have the right to remove directors if a company's remuneration report has received a 'no' vote of 25% or more at two consecutive annual general meetings under the legislation. ...

FTSE launch carbon risk indices for Australia, Europe and Japan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... the underlying FTSE benchmark." Launched in December 2011, the series takes an established FTSE index and evaluates each company within the index to identify its level of exposure to future carbon risks. The companies within the index are then re-weighted ...

WOB: ASX200 companies not meeting gender diversity standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Principles and Recommendations. WOB then rated the companies on a traffic light system - a red light, or 1, meaning the company has provided no or minimal details on gender diversity, an amber light, or 2, meaning the company meet three levels of compliance ...

IGCC and others launch second global investor survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... which will assess institutional investors' response to climate change risks by examining investment strategies, policies, company engagement practices and investment decisions. "Reducing emissions exposure, while finding the revenue generating businesses ...

CDP writes companies asking for carbon management and cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... reductions are well placed to improve their competitive position in the marketplace." Each letter issued was tailored to company-specific circumstances and had requests including commitments to make year-on-year emissions reductions; invest in emission ...

Proposed disclosure measures for corporate bonus clawbacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... have taken to clawback bonuses and other forms of remuneration if they were the result of a material misstatement in the company's financial statements, under proposed legislation announced by Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer David Bradbury. ...

Corporate Social Responsibility as driver of innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... of cost as evidence that many companies view engagement as a way of managing risk, rather than generating value. "If a company really saw that there was value in engaging with Indigenous people, wouldn't they be trying to maximise engagement in the Kimberly ...

Leightons under investigation over payment disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Australian Federal Police (AFP) are investigating Leighton Holdings over payments that may have been made by a subsidiary company "in connection with work to expand offshore loading facilities for Iraq's crude oil exports." But Duncan Paterson, CEO of ...

Call for working group on shareholder resolution reform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Morschel wrote "The proposed resolution sought to bind management to undertake certain actions it is clear to ANZ that under company law an annual general meeting of shareholders does not have the power to do this. So as you would understand it would ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... integrated report. But 30 companies in the ASX50 were assessed as having less than 50% integration, with the poorest performing company being scored at 8%. ACCA and Net Balance relied on publicly disclosed reports as the basis of their research. "The ...