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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 ...

IIRC considers assurance of Integrated Reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... assurance on IR standards. The first forum is in Johannesburg on 20 August, hosted by the South African Institute of Directors (IoD) and the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA). The papers consider "the nature of assurance and how different ...

Diversity Council Australia measures the bamboo ceiling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Asian-based companies who are listed in Australia's stock exchange and therefore have high proportions of Asian board directors (e.g. Singtel)." The report defines "Asia" as including "East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea etc.), South East Asia (Indonesia ...

Mercer research surveys governance at superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... superannuation funds participating in a recent Mercer survey have reported that they do not currently have independent directors on their trustee boards. Pam McAlister, partner and senior governance consultant, Mercer Mercer surveyed 33 superannuation ...

Global Reporting Initiative hires chief of staff

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... to GRI from Fairtrade International FLO in Bonn, where she was executive operating officer and member of the board of directors. "I'm very excited to be here and think the work GRI is doing is of vital importance," Syvanen said. "I'm already very impressed ...

ACSI lists ASX sustainability reporting leaders, laggards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... uptake of the International Integrated Reporting Council's integrated reporting framework - namely, calls from corporate directors and industry bodies for a safe harbour provision for corporate directors. For example, Chartered Secretaries Australia ...