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ASX50 companies not making strategic case for sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... There's work to be done within organisations to get risk managers, investor relations, secretaries, and sustainability directors working together and creating a common language to understand what role sustainability risk has in the short, medium and ...

RIAA panel discusses tackling ESG duties, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... issues, Hagart noted, and they see that ownership rights in listed Australian companies can be used to change the way directors think or operate. "We also believe in the advocacy piece and changing the system where we see imperfections or suboptimal ...

Boards more diverse, but ACSI calls for more "skin in the game"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
More than 11% of ASX200 non-executive board positions are held by directors who own no shares in the company, which the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) says goes counter to ACSI's expectation that directors will have "skin in the ...

GRI to implement new governance structure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... reporting process standard practice for thousands of organizations," said Christianna Wood, Chairman of GRI's board of directors. "The new governance structure and the creation of the Global Sustainability Standards Board is part of the ongoing evolution ...

Governance Institute of Australia questions shareholder primacy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... primacy: Is there a need for change?, was launched this week and seeks comment from stakeholders on the question of whether directors should consider more than just shareholder considerations, given increased community expectations of higher levels of ...

APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... year released Regulatory Guide 247 (RG 247), Effective disclosure in an operating and financial review, a guidance for directors to provide "useful and meaningful information" when preparing an operating and financial review (OFR) as part of directors' ...

Future Super launches as first fossil-fuel free fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Jemma Morton Green, formerly of J.P. Morgan, and James Thier, a founder of Australian Ethical Investment, both as board directors and investment committee members, Jane Wilder as board director and company secretary, and Julia Leske, a senior analyst ...

Corporate governance: moving to "owner relations" model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... bigger super funds are already there. What sandy and I did was, we went out there and interviewed chairmen and non-exec directors, super funds, organisations like Regnan and ACSI. It was about capturing it all in one place as a reference place. It's ...

AMP Capital reviews corporate governance activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Capital makes decisions about governance issues, applying flexibility to issues such as the principle of having boards of directors comprised of majority independent directors. AMP Capital aid that decisions on re-electing non-independent directors will ...

UCA Funds Management appoint independent directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
UCA Funds Management has appointed Lindsay Mann and Jane Bell as independent non-executive directors. Mann is a fellow of the Actuaries Institute and has more than 40 years' financial services experience. He retired as regional head, Asia, of First ...