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UNPRI signatories name corporate ESG engagement issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) signatories say that executive remuneration, climate change and supply chain labour standards are "priority areas of engagement" with invested companies in the next year. These areas of engagement ...

ACSI to target exec bonus disclosure, voting rights at AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... bonuses were available for CEOs to forego in the first place." In 2009, ACSI analysis showed that only 21% of S&P/ASX50 remuneration reports complied with statutory requirements to disclose a 'detailed summary' of performance conditions where remuneration ...

ASX report shows companies' progress on gender diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... representation on the Board. KPMG that other examples of measurable objectives included annual reviews of gender remuneration parity, ensuring that potential candidates for vacant positions include at least one female candidate, and ensuring that during ...

Emerging listed miners catching up on corporate governance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... are more likely to be addressed, because of the board's biggest role of appointing the CEO. In terms of executive remuneration with the small companies - they don't have the resources that the larger companies do to structure their remuneration. They're ...

Global Reporting Initiative G4 draft out for public comment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... for public feedback. The G4 framework is focused on five main areas - boundary, application levels, governance and remuneration, supply chain, and disclosures on management approach. It will produce new and updated content. Public comment is invited ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... of view, a lack of board independence raises the risk of nepotism, related party transactions, excessive executive remuneration, etc." AMP Capital has voted against a number of remuneration reports and director elections for those companies in the media ...

Q&A with Nelmara Arbex, deputy chief executive, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... would therefore take a long time, also because there are no international agreements. Then we have the Governance and Remuneration Working Group. All the governance related issues in the guidelines are going to be updated and rewritten because first ...

ASA opposes Santos CEO $2m share grant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... The company put the issue on the agenda of the annual general meeting (AGM) as a special resolution outside of the remuneration report. The company decided to award the so-called 2012-2015 four-year strategy grant after a remuneration review by PricewaterhouseCoopers ...

CSA warns on timing of undirected proxy vote legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... government will be able to pass legislation that will clarify the right of a company chair to vote undirected proxies on a remuneration report resolution. Under current law, company chairs are not able to vote undirected proxies on a remuneration report ...

Fund manager: remuneration reports filled with "mumbo jumbo"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
Remuneration reports have become overly long and filled with legal jargon that is not easily understood, said Peter Morgan, founder of 452 Capital. Speaking at the Ownership Matters governance conference in Melbourne, Morgan told an audience of investors ...