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GRI establishing working groups for G4

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... requirements for sustainability data and enable reporters to provide relevant information to various stakeholders, including shareholders, investors and consumers. It should also improve on content in the current guidelines - G3 and G3.1 - with strengthened ...

Share placements become governance issue for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Publicly listed companies should recognise existing shareholders when raising equity capital, and should disclose how a capital equity raising is priced and built and ensure that fees associated with a equity capital raising reflect value and risk ...

David Bradbury announces inquiry on future of the AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... future of the AGM in Australia, including how documents and meeting forms should change to meet the needs of future shareholders; the "risks and opportunities" in technological advances as relates to the ongoing relevance and efficacy of the AGM, such ...

Bradbury highlights corporate ESG reporting inconsistencies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Director and Executive Remuneration) Bill 2011 legislation gives shareholders in Australian publicly listed companies the right to remove directors if a company's remuneration report has received a ...

Ownership Matters hires Marty Chung

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... listed companies, and the Investor Voice service, which informs subscribers of regulatory reform proposals impacting shareholders. OM has 5 full time and 3 part time staff and covers ASX 300 companies

Using ESG factors to broaden fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... some could go to reputation risk," said Birgden of Mercer. "Some of it is coming from the fixed income providers and shareholders, who both have a shared interest in the good corporate governance through all those risk management issues - board effectiveness ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... around capital raisings, plus resolutions on environmental and social issues. This is the first AGM season in which shareholders the right to remove directors if a company's remuneration report has received a 'no' vote of 25% or more at two consecutive ...

Dean Paatsch launches new governance advisory firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... listed companies, and the Investor Voice service, which informs subscribers of regulatory reform proposals impacting shareholders. Paatsch, Lawrence and Connal all come out of ISS Governance Services, which was sold to RiskMetrics, which was then bought ...

ACSI reiterates no vote for News Corp board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... Because the Murdoch family controls voting shares, any vote against News Corp board members will be from a minority of shareholders, With the Murdoch family control over voting shares, ACSI recognises that any vote against the News Corp board structure ...

Number of women on boards climbs slowly, ACSI finds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... chairperson is a former executive and major shareholder, ERA, MAP and WAN, where the chairpersons are associated with major shareholders, and Macquarie, where the chairperson was a former executive. The study notes that Macquarie has since appointed ...