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Social issues and climate dominate engagement: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
Social issues are at the top of companies' agendas, driven by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to State Street Global Advisors. SSGA has detailed the issues of engagement and its voting during the 2020 season through October 2020, noting ...

Climate, worker rights rise up ESG agenda: Perennial

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... particularly in a COVID-19 impacted environment. Within remuneration, 93% of respondents say their incentive structures have shareholder returns as a metric, with culture and safety in 75% of incentive structures. Material ESG factors featured in 40% ...

Governance key concern for AGM season: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... Singh said. "The problem is they're big transactions, with big discounts and done a big hurry, which lends itself to shareholder abuse. Our preference would be that these kind of capital raisings are a renounceable rights raising." Following the ASX's ...

The intersection of conduct culture and company value

SUSHEELA PERES DA COSTA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Note: this article was first written in 2018 Overview The ethical conduct, trustworthiness and 'social licence to operate' of a company matter to the community and consumers, especially in a post-GFC world. But what about shareholders? They ...

BlackRock details engagement activity in stewardship report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... of investment stewardship to "promote sound corporate governance and business practices to help maximize long-term shareholder value for our clients." "What we need to do is ensure the long term operational sustainability of the companies that we are ...

Woolworths commits to ambitious GHG emissions cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Woolworths Group has committed to reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 63% by 2030 in targets endorsed by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). In addition, Woolworths has committed to reduce absolute Scope 3 greenhouse gas ...

Northern Trust outlines social, environmental challenges to road ahead

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... inequality, it's also that we feel that there's almost an inevitability to it, and if you as a company don't evolve from a shareholder focus towards a more stakeholder oriented focus, you'll be left behind by the investment class." Companies that do ...

Wesfarmers director to retire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Wesfarmers has announced that Diane Smith-Gander will retire as a non-executive director of the company at the company's November AGM. Smith-Gander will retire by rotation and will not seek re-election at the 12 November election. Wesfarmers Chairman ...

Governance Institute backs recommendations for virtual AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... because they're more efficiently run for organisations, they're cheaper in cost, and also they allow much more shareholder participation." Even as the government works through the legislative changes need to make virtual and hybrid AGMs permanent ...

Investors welcome Rio resignations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... statements and where the accountability for these actions rest. The results of meetings will inform how the fund could use shareholder resolutions or voting to seek change, HESTA said. "The nature of these agreements and how they are negotiated represents ...