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Diversity Council Australia explores "double jeopardy" facing culturally diverse women

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... leadership, and there's no evidence to suggest that they're not capable," said DCA CEO Lisa Annese. Currently, only 2% of ASX directors are culturally diverse women, DCA noted. According to the survey, only 15% of participants "strongly agreed that their ...

Local Government Super hires David Smith as new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... a MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). He has extensive board experience, currently serving as the executive director of Equip Corporate Advisory and chairman ...

30% Club Australia calls for renewed push to get women on boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... VicSuper. The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) last year informed ASX-listed companies without female directors that they will face votes against sitting directors as of this year. In 2015, ACSI adopted a target for women to comprise ...

ASX100 CEO pay remains below 2009 peak: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... formal voting strategy for company AGMs. As of this year, ACSI is recommending to members that they vote against sitting directors at companies without female directors. "We've been doing a lot of work focusing on to women on boards of ASX200 companies ...

Cyber security a rapidly evolving material risk for companies: Citi Research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... developing their approaches to cyber risk around operations, as far as we can tell from the answers." Citi surveyed company directors as part of the research. According to the respondents, 62% of directors say "that the level of attempted malicious cyber ...

Will Australia adopt the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures recommendations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... analysis and how they get started with that." In the Australian jurisdiction, the legal and regulatory view is that company directors have a fiduciary obligation to consider the impacts of climate change in line with directors duties under the Corporations ...

ACSI names Ian Silk as new president, Antony Thow as deputy president

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... president. Louise Davidson, ACSI CEO Silk and Thow will take up their new positions in August. Silk and Thow are both directors at the council, and will replace Gerard Noonan of Media Super and Trish Donohue of Cbus, whose terms expire in August. "We ...

Directors speak to evolving, expanding role of corporate boards at ACSI conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... emphasis on maintaining trust and social license to operate having as much importance as financial return. A panel of directors - Paula Dwyer, chairman of Tabcorp Holdings Limited and Healthscope Limited, Rebecca McGrath, independent chair and non-executive ...

Asset owners identify economic inequality as rising investment risk at ACSI conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... introduce resolutions. It would leave us with one way to try to do the work we want to do, which is organising votes against directors. We're trying to work on that issue. Also as part of the D-F act, we have the SEC regulation around companies disclosing ...

Directors, senior executives have obligation to consider climate change: Norton Rose Fulbright

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017  |  NEWS
Board directors and senior management must give proper consideration to the risks of climate change, "with a view to ensuring that these risks are incorporated into strategic decision making, and appropriate consideration is given to the need for disclosure ...