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Women on Boards tracks gender diversity gains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... companies continues to be a governance issue for institutional investors. This week, AMP Capitol issued its corporate governance report, and highlighted gender diversity as one of its issues of engagement. AMP Capital Corporate Governance Manager Karin ...

Companies, investors cite overlapping materiality: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... equipment sector, and the four most important factors were innovation management, supply chain management, corporate governance and human capital management. Sector specific factors were environmental enabling, privacy protection and data security, and ...

Looking ahead to sustainability trends in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... to consider when reporting environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Last year, the ASX Group's Corporate Governance Council published a third edition of the Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations. As part of that package, ASX has ...

The Sustainability Report's top articles of 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... investment strategies, green bonds, and valuation of corporate social programs. ASX includes ESG language in corporate governance guidance The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has recommended that listed companies disclose how economic, environmental ...

Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... fund - but rather to engage with systemic issues, Hagart said. "If an entity is lobbying for a change to corporate governance that will result in fewer protections for investors or less enforcement on companies, then that would make it riskier to invest ...

ASX50 companies not making strategic case for sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... issues and their material impacts as disclosed in the operating and financial review, while the ASX Group's Corporate Governance Council updated its Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations to include Recommendation 7.4 to Principle 7, covering ...

RIAA panel discusses tackling ESG duties, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... Investment Association Australasia (RIAA). Sarah Barker, special counsel at Minter Ellison Lawyers and a corporate governance and corporate social responsibility advisor explained that superannuation fund trustees must consider ESG impacts as part of ...

Boards more diverse, but ACSI calls for more "skin in the game"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... shares. ACSI will use this information in engaging with directors over the coming year, as one of ACSI's corporate governance expectations is that all directors have skin in the game and are aligned with investors, said Gordon Hagart, ACSI chief executive. ...

Governance Institute of Australia questions shareholder primacy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... term, but what about the long term? That's one of the big issues in a lot of stakeholders' minds." See Also: Corporate governance: moving to "owner relations" model

APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... APRA is in line with other financial services regulators and market operators. Earlier this year, the ASX's Corporate Governance Council released the third edition of the Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations. As part of that package, ASX ...