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Investor toolkit to assist in engaging on Indigenous cultural heritage protection

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... gives a structure for investors to measure and benchmark progress on issues, Welsh-Rose said Kado Muir and Anne Dennis, co-chairs of the First Nations Heritage Protection Alliance said, "Investors are the owners of the companies that build on, extract ...

Actuaries Institute challenges boards on skills gaps

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... skills and capabilities is responsible for the governance failures. Rafe and Laughlin recommend that financial service chairs should have CEO experience. "Chairmanship is very important to the board," Laughlin told FS Sustainability. "The style of the ...

No all male-boards on ASX200 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... diversity by our largest organisations has occurred in recent years. "This is testament to the leadership and commitment of ASX chairs and directors, as well as the numerous groups who have pushed for change and ensured that gender diversity remains ...

Sustainable finance initiative establishes permanent body

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... industry with key sustainability goals for the decade ahead," outgoing ASFI Co-chair Simon O'Connor said. The existing co-chairs of the ASFI Steering Committee, Jacki Johnson and Simon O'Connor, will step down from their roles and the steering committee ...

Super funds file Modern Slavery Statements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... investors sharing information, and also partnering with NGOs on the ground in areas where modern slavery is occurring. Carlsson chairs the Human Rights Working Group at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), which has published Modern ...

CEO, board salaries cops COVID-19 hit: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... did receive salary increases, the largest increases were in the audit committee, whose members saw a 36.6% increase and chairs seeing a 19.4% increase, and risk, whose members saw in increase of 22.8%, while chairs saw a 23.4% increase. Around one third ...

Women near parity in 2021 board appointments: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... positions, as at 28 February 2021. A further 24 ASX200 companies only have one woman on board. There are currently 22 women chairs of ASX200 companies. "We know that a shortage of qualified, board-ready women has never been the problem," said Nicola ...

More women on ASX200 boards, but lag in CEO and chair roles: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... in the ASX50, yet the number of ASX200 women who are CEOS has hovered around 10 since 2015 and the number of women board chairs has risen from 11 to 24. It is very encouraging to see the number of women directors continuing to increase," said Louise ...

Opinion: Sustainable finance: the new normal in 2021

SIMON O'CONNOR, JACKI JOHNSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
Note: This piece was contributed by Jacki Johnson and Simon O'Connor, co-chairs of the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative and solely reflect the writers' opinion Many will opine on the lessons learnt from 2020, but the seismic shifts ...

Company secretaries weigh challenges, opportunities of virtual AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... Bowd moderated the Q&A portion of the Coca Cola Amatil event, and several of the panellists spoke of showing their board chairs and senior executives video of the rehearsals to help them optimise their presentation in a new, virtual format. "It's ...