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AMP Capital, VFMC publish 2011 proxy voting record

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... that risk is often magnified. We frequently hold equities in all the companies in which that one person appears on all the boards, and the risk is their attention could be diverted. Often chairs will counter by saying that the director's attendance record ...

WOB: ASX200 companies not meeting gender diversity standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... work" to do to meet gender diversity standards embodied in ASX Principle 3, according to a survey carried out by Women on Boards (WOB). WOB surveyed 82 ASX200 companies' public disclosures for its WOB Traffic Light Index to evaluate how they are responding ...

Proposed disclosure measures for corporate bonus clawbacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer David Bradbury. The announced reforms will amend the Corporations Act to require boards to disclose this information to shareholders through the remuneration report. If the company has not clawed back any remuneration ...

Climate change, human rights, social justice top 2012 agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... said. "Executive remuneration will continue, but will also move to director quality - how fit are directors to serve on boards." For Fuller, governance issues like executive remuneration and board quality are part of the continuum as institutional investors ...

Share placements become governance issue for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... existing investments, which is often the tack that institutional investors take when addressing the issue with company boards. The Sustainability Report spokes with governance/ESG managers at several institutional investors and superannuation funds ...

David Bradbury announces inquiry on future of the AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... rid of the board, directors will face fresh elections at a subsequent spill meeting. The legislation also stipulates that boards must declare the use of remuneration consultants and directors will be prohibited from participating in votes on remuneration ...

Company directors must improve shareholder communication

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... earlier than the issuing of the notice of meeting with the proxy advisers," he said. "It does raise interesting questions for boards, because you spend a lot of time communicating with the investors, you then need to ascertain who within the investor ...

Bradbury highlights corporate ESG reporting inconsistencies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... rid of the board, directors will face fresh elections at a subsequent spill meeting. The legislation also stipulates that boards must declare the use of remuneration consultants and directors will be prohibited from participating in votes on remuneration ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... a director at Ownership Matters. "I've detected no appetite on the behalf of institutional voters to start chucking out boards for getting aspects of the pay structure wrong. It's lowered the outrage threshold and given a lot more public attention that's ...

Number of women on boards climbs slowly, ACSI finds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). Ann Byrne The research highlighted that bringing women onto boards remains a slow process with incremental movements. Women represented 7.2% of S&P/ASX 100 directors and held 8.3% of all board ...