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OHS, social license to operate identified as infrastructure risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... donated to charities that are helping peoples most impacted in communities." This consideration extends to the payment of dividends, Myatt said. "We will see that a lot of these companies will have an increase in their working capital and in their bad ...

Questions raised over governance implications of share buyback schemes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... buybacks have become the favoured means for distributing cash to investors among large-cap U.S. companies, exceeding cash dividends every year since 1997 at 388 of the 610 companies in the study sample. The report examined buyback activity between 1997 ...

Investors considering their options in voting at Westpac AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... money was being channelled into child exploitation, and of course, concern over the share price and the impact on future dividends," Limmer said. "We're still finalising our voting intentions, which go out on our website." Limmer noted that ASA was set ...

Retail investors would accept lower returns for ethical performance: KPMG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... responsibility." The report also found that a higher number of respondents - 72% - rated 'reputation' ahead of 'recent dividends', 69% when deciding which companies to invest in. Retail investors also said that executive remuneration is a major trigger ...

Examining the corporate governance implications of share buybacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... their extra cash, they have two main options besides investing in capital improvements, R&D or M&A, and that's either dividends or repurchases," Marshall said. "One of the reasons for the decision to go for share buybacks versus dividends is that when ...

Brambles talks sustainability strategy, Sustainable Development Goals and natural capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... constant currency, underlying profit was USS$957.5 million, down 1% at constant currency, and Brambles issued total dividends of AU$0.29/share for the full 2017 financial year. The goals in Brambles' sustainability programs are aligned to the United ...

ESG integration continues to spread across Asia: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... and the Corporate Governance Code], the first thing that many Japanese companies have been picking up is paying more dividends, which has led to a big rerating of many companies." On the investor side, the introduction of the Stewardship Code has also ...

Utilities sector face material ESG issues: Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... profound changes occurring, and investors have historically loved utilities because of their stability and their juicy dividends. We do foresee that changing." See Also: Sustanalytics considering expansion into Australia

Canada adopts mining payment regime, Australia next?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... disclose taxes other than consumption taxes and personal income taxes, royalties, fees, production entitlements, bonuses, dividends other than dividends paid to ordinary shareholders and infrastructure improvement payments. The legislation does not specify ...

UCA Funds Management names fossil fuel exclusion stocks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... there's no change. Most of the exclusions are small companies in which we're not interested because they don't have high dividends and/or they aren't well established." AGL Energy, Origin Energy, Santos and Wesfarmers will remain investible despite having ...