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Number of women on boards climbs slowly, ACSI finds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... 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 still hold very few leadership ...

Miscommunication hampers institutional vote engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... out of many." All participants said that the model of proxy adviser as decision maker is undesirable, but Don Argus, director of Australian Foundation Investment Company, and former BHP Billiton chairman, went further and said that the use of proxy advisers ...

Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... board member of the Reserve Bank, has been named chair of the review panel for the CEFC. She has previously served as a director of Woodside Petroleum, Coca-Cola Amatil and Qantas Airways. The government has also named to the panel David Paradice, founder ...

New standards for measuring GHG emissions in value chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... developed through a global, multi-stakeholder process making them both credible and user-friendly," said Pankaj Bhatia, Director, GHG Protocol, WRI. "Building on current best practice and extensive input from businesses, governments, and other partners ...

Analysing the link between women directors and corporate returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... outperformance. The incidence of outperformance in companies with women directors isn't understood, but Tina Brothers, executive director of the Reibey Institute, said that discussion of the issue throws up several theories. "These are various opinions ...

ASX500 companies increase number of women on boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
An analysis of ASX500 companies shows that there are 235 women holding 307 directorship positions, and 233 companies have at least one woman on board. The research note authored by the Reibey Institute noted that women hold 9.5% of ASX500 board positions ...

Miners, stakeholders agree to actions in Upper Hunter Valley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... the edges of streams, rivers and alluviums. In the top 10 list were calls for long term health assessments to go into director general requirements, with calls for assessments to be done at the exploration stage. The NSWMC disagreed with the call for ...

Systemic fault jeopardises proxy vote integrity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... powers to spill directors over executive remuneration reports. The Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Director and Executive Remuneration) Bill 2011, better known as the "two strikes and you're out" test, was passed in June of this year. ...

Nearly half of ASX100 companies exposed to human rights risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... regulatory frameworks on human rights and companies with operations in the oil, gas and mining sectors, said Mark Lyster, director of Net Balance. Out of the top 100 companies listed on the ASX, 47 had operational exposures to human rights risk. Net ...

ACSI recommend against News Corp board re-election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has recommended that superannuation funds invested in News Corporation vote against the re-election of six of the company's executive directors in the upcoming annual general meeting. "Progress ...