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Operational changes needed to strengthen AGM voting: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... resolutions at meetings of ASX300 companies during the 2011 calendar year. The research found a total of nine instances in seven companies' meetings with significant disparities between the voting instructions lodged by the participating institutional ...

ACCSR: Governance and transparency material issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... social/labour practices and decent work was mentioned by 71% of interviewed stakeholders. The research asked interviewees about seven broad themes, with 44 specific issues underneath. Within those specific issues, local community impacts ranked highly ...

More women, more new entrants appointed to ASX100 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... found that more than half of smaller companies' boards - 47 of the 88 sampled - had no women on their boards, while only seven companies in the ASX100 had no women. Overall, women made up 8.5% of board directors in the ASX101-200 boards, and 9% of board ...

FTSE adds three Australian companies to FTSE4Good indexes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... FTSE4Good index series as part of FTSE's semi-annual review of the index and ESG ratings. FTSE added 21 companies and deleted seven countries from the index series. At the same time, FTSE said it applied supply chain labour standards criteria to more ...

ASX100 CEO pay, bonuses decline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... highest paid CEO on reported basis for 2010, CBA's Ralph Norris's AU$16.159m. The highest paid CEO in the ASX101-200 was Seven Group's Peter Gammell, on AU$4.924m. Poli's exercise of options distorted the average realised pay for bottom 10 companies ...

City of Melbourne EUAs extended to include property trusts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... developed for this mechanism better aligns to the nature of energy efficiency savings.... Some energy efficiency projects have a seven year simple payback. When financed over 10 years, as the current product allows, the project becomes becomes cash neutral ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... been shortened to three years and you're pushing for five years. But some of these projects aren't cash positive until year seven, so there's no way to make the numbers work that way. An EUA can remedy that." Meanwhile, the South Australian government ...

ACSI may name companies with poor sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... their reports to GRI guidelines - a decrease of two, while the number of ASX200 companies outside the top 100 remained at seven. "Despite ACSI's annual communication with ASX200 company chairmen regarding their reporting level and the importance of sound ...

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... inclusion. Last year, research conducted by the Centre for Social Impact for NAB concluding that 2.6m adult Australians - one in seven adults - are "severely or completely" financially excluded. Indigenous Australians are a large component of the severely ...

NAB partners to launch Victorian microfinance retail hubs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... cited recent research conducted by the Centre for Social Impact for NAB concluding that 2.6m adult Australians - one in seven adults - are "severely or completely" financially excluded. "Severely financially excluded means that they have access to one ...