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Companies consider implications of new ASX principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... recommendations, and says that the matrix will be an information tool for investors, augmenting the individual biographies of board directors that are currently disclosed. "In terms of communicating to investors, it's an excellent way forward," he said. ...

Future Super founders to launch Future Home Loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AMP Capital increases focus on corporate succession planning

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... plan, and get a bland answer, but if you ask how often they meet to discuss succession, and what they discuss, board directors will often report that they have done a lot of internal work and developed quite robust plans internally." Succession planning ...

NAB, bankmecu, Stockland on Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... organisations said that their integrated reports are signed off at board level and that at all three organisations, board directors and senior executive management are comfortable that the forward-looking statements they were making in the integrated ...

AXA IM: board diversity an issue at EuroStoxx50 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... fast as their companies' business strategies - AXA IM's analysis showed that European nationals make up 84% of board directors at those companies. "Everyone talks about emerging market as a growth strategy, and most big companies have really gone global ...

GNDI: encourage board diversity, but not by quotas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
A diverse corporate board can have a significant, positive impact on business outcomes, but mandatory quotas are not the most effective way to improve board diversity, according to a joint policy paper issued by the Global Network of Director Institutes ...

More women, more new entrants appointed to ASX100 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... 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 seats. The ACSI survey also found that the number of new entrants to board seats ...

Analysing the link between women directors and corporate returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... According to a series of studies conducted by non-profit Catalyst, Fortune 500 companies with at least three women board directors in four of five years outperformed their peers in terms of return on sales (ROS), return on invested capital (ROIC), and ...