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Westpac number one on global sustainability list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... work of our people to help create a sustainable future and deliver long term value for our customers, employees, shareholders and the community." Westpac recently outlined its sustainability strategy to 2017, and Westpac highlighted several areas of ...

Good Super launches, aims for ethical impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... have time because of quarterly shareholder pressure. Do they have money? No, because they're returning capital to shareholders, and do they have intent? Questionable. Who has time, money and can leverage intent? Superannuation - it's a AU$1.7 trillion ...

Remuneration consultant disclosure regime questioned

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... legitimate," Lawrence said. "But I am interested in what's actually going on. You don't want a board/management team to use shareholders' money to fret about managing their after-tax positions." The other recommendation Ownership Matters makes is "requiring ...

Co-operatives "have role to play" in public service delivery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... NDIS are supposedly about shifting control and choice to the consumer. Co-ops and mutuals have members rather than shareholders at heart. They are a perfect marriage of the social purpose of the business with the efficiency of the private sector," Morrison ...

Looking for social, economic return by creating shared value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... financial crisis as the company realised that innovation around shared value was a way of driving financial returns for shareholders, Barnard said. "If we build better communities, if we build better places to live, if lives are improved, they're customers ...

Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... carbon intensive assets, diversifying its business by investing in lower carbon energy sources or returning capital to shareholders." Unburnable carbon is a concept that only around one third of current proven reserves of fossil fuels can be consumed ...

Inalytics, PIRC find corporate governance, share price link

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... governance performance. "It breaks down the ratings - auditing and reporting rating, board rating, compensation rating and shareholders and capital rating," Field said. "Those are the components where they put the rating on an individual company - effectively ...

NAB's 'Wealth of Opportunity' a new CSR narrative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... launching a communication strategy to talk about corporate responsibility to both internal and external stakeholders, shareholders and customers. said Paula Benson, general manager, corporate responsibility, NAB The strategy, Wealth of Opportunity, is ...

GNDI comments on proposed Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... framework, tax and corporate laws and determine the cost, benefits and implementation implications for entities and their shareholders." GNDI supports communication of issues of significance to shareholders in corporate reporting. "These factors must ...

Corporate governance guidelines on agenda ahead of AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... other issues mentioned in one or the other include board diversity and capital raisings. Under the two-strikes rule, shareholders in Australian publicly listed companies have the right to remove directors if a company's remuneration report has received ...