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AMP Capital reviews corporate governance activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... developed with a strong focus on building confidence among investors, ensuring accountability and transparency between shareholders and company management. AMP Capital pointed to the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia as examples where institutional ...

Community 21 launches share offer to raise up to AU$4m

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... non-profit clients and specific products and services to the sector. It's time for us to go to the next level. The two shareholders in Community Sector Banking - Community 21 and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank - decided they'd increase the investment in the ...

ACSI: companies paid premium for rights issue underwriting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... risk requires you to pay a fee and we are keen to establish that the fee establish as strong a value proposition to shareholders as possible. Based on anecdotes, we had the suspicion looking back over a number of years, that companies are price takers ...

UCA Funds Management release 2013 annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... he said. "What we need to do is form the right group of people, and it has to include community organisations and shareholders. Secondly, we need to do our research to identify what improvement in standards we want the payday lending sector to adopt. ...

KPMG finds companies invest $12.2bn in social programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... social programs and business impact. This is a huge area for companies to improve communication to stakeholders and shareholders." KPMG defined social investments as corporate donations of cash or products, employee volunteering, pro bono work, sponsorship ...

ASIC guide widens scope of risk, future prospect disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... guide expands the definition of the understanding of subsection c to require that OFRs contain information such that shareholders could make informed assessments of those prospects for future financial years. It expands that definition to say, don't ...

Labour rights, NGO activism and governance cited as ESG trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... the values issues are embedded in long term corporate strategy and questioned if it was more valuable for activist shareholders to press for short-term, reactive action or engagement to create a longer term framework for governance. He cited supply chain ...

BITC index ranks global companies' corporate responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... the key issues for the organisation and the interplay with stakeholder relationships, whether that is customers, shareholders, the communities in which they operate, regulators, etc.," said Alan Dayeh, an associate director at Net Balance. "That engagement ...

AMP Capital increases focus on corporate succession planning

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... someone new, or developing internal candidates/skills, and what succession plans are in place to let them know that shareholders are interested in leadership quality, and don't want them to just cut costs." AMP Capital discussed the issue of succession ...

Australian Ethical Investment hires head of ethics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... corporate and investment decision making remain true to our Ethical Charter, serving all of our stakeholders including shareholders, superannuation fund members, investors and the community at large."