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Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... environmental and social issues. This is the first AGM season in which shareholders the right to remove directors if a company's remuneration report has received a 'no' vote of 25% or more at two consecutive AGMs - the so-called "two strikes and you're ...

75% of ASX100 exposed to corruption in high-risk countries

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... employees from becoming involved in corrupt practices," the report said. "In the current environment, the chances of an ASX200 company with international operations, no stated anti-bribery policy, and/or inadequate anti-bribery management controls becoming ...

Dean Paatsch launches new governance advisory firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... research programme that will highlight "governance issues or market practices that negatively impact ownership rights," the company said at its launch. "You could say that there is a bit of 'once more, with feeling' here, but we're very keen to make ...

AWE reports lower GHG emissions, underlying loss for 2011FY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
AWE Limited, an oil and gas exploration and production company, reported a 3% decline in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to approximately 203,000 CO2-e, with production of 6.12m barrel of oil equivalent (BOE), basically the same as the 6.09m BOE production ...

ACSI reiterates no vote for News Corp board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has advised Australian superannuation funds to vote against members of the News Corp Board at the company's annual general meeting in Los Angeles on Friday. "News Corp board should comprise a majority of independent non-executive ...

Number of women on boards climbs slowly, ACSI finds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... S&P/ASX 100 boards. "The results of the ACSI 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 ...

Miscommunication hampers institutional vote engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... parties, particularly during the annual general meeting (AGM) season, according to a study by the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). AICD panel discusses institutional investor proxy voting. L-R John Colvin, Don Argus, David Crawford Photo ...

New standards for measuring GHG emissions in value chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... methodology to measure corporate value chain and greenhouse gas emissions to improve the sustainability decisions at the company level. "The new Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Value Chain Standard provides a much needed harmonized global methodology ...

Business, investors get certainty as carbon package passes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... right away and companies have time to adjust and plan for a clean future," the IGCC said in a statement. "Based on recent company announcements to the Australian Stock Exchange, few if any stocks will be re-rated because of the carbon price. Investors ...

Analysing the link between women directors and corporate returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... Brothers said. "Some suggest that companies with the more gender diversity have that diversity embedded in the culture of the company, where they search for better candidates regardless of gender at board level and management level, and they also have ...