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Focus on short-term growth could undercut long term gain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... engagement with Australian retailers, Halliday said. There are also times when engagement with companies on their remuneration reports has led AMP Capital into detailed discussions on supply chain risk management, she noted. In 2012, after the Tazreen ...

ACSI: Investors have confidence in ASX100 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... board responsibility - leadership, oversight, influence and responsiveness, strategic decision making, composition, remuneration. "One of the important entitlements of Australian shareholders is the right to elect directors," said Ann Byrne, ACSI CEO. ...

J.P. Morgan rates Australian REITs reporting, management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... the need for quotas." The report also reviewed governance, including board structures and independence, director remuneration/shareholdings and executive remuneration as part of the analysis. "We do not adopt a hard line on best practice corporate governance," ...

ACSI names leaders, laggards in ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... resolutions where a company has poor sustainability reporting; higher percentage of ACSI and broader market opposition to remuneration practices in poor reporting companies; fewer women on the boards of companies with poor sustainability reporting practices ...

CFSGAM to create global responsible investment committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... board to express our view as active shareholders." Meanwhile, the Australian Equities Core fund listed executive remuneration, corporate governance, issues relating to staffing and safety and supply chain as related to social and environmental issues ...

Northern Trust launches emerging markets ESG index, fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... that lack sufficient independence across ownership, board representation, key corporate committees and audit and remuneration committees are filtered out. "This Index is unique in combining industry screens, norms-based screens and governance screens," ...

Mercer: use responsible investment to reduce return leakage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... is characterised by high turnover in portfolios, high turnover in managers, and leakages upstream like excessive remuneration and merger and acquisitions activity, which doesn't necessarily create long term value, as well as systemic leakages.... The ...

AMP Capital notes increased engagement, board diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Corporate boards are more willing to engage with investors around governance issues beyond remuneration into areas including board independence, succession planning and related party transactions, which AMP Capital attributes to the impact of the two-strikes ...

Charter Hall publishes first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... recruitment processes. The company also adopted a revised diversity and inclusion strategy and undertook an external remuneration benchmarking exercise to confirm there is no pay inequality between men and women. The CR&S working group reports to the ...

More women appointed to ASX200 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... Council's Principles and Recommendations. Of the 170 companies sampled, all had an audit committee, 97 per cent had a remuneration committee and 82 per cent had a nomination committee. AICD said in the report that the ASX200 Snapshot Report will be expanded ...