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ACSI reiterates no vote for News Corp board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... discount' in the stock over the long term - peerages have no place in corporate life, either here or in the global investment community." ASX corporate governance guidelines recommend that a majority of a board should be independent directors and the ...

Community finance draws eye of institutional investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to administer the AU$20m Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF). SEDIF was established to improve social enterprises' access to finance to help them grow their business and ...

Miscommunication hampers institutional vote engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... and investors. Companies felt they should be engaging with executives such as the chief executive officer and chief investment officer, but voting decisions are made at lower level, with the portfolio managers and analysts." The report noted that communication ...

Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... Coca-Cola Amatil and Qantas Airways. The government has also named to the panel David Paradice, founder of Paradice Investment Management, a boutique firm with AU$6.6bn in AUM, and Ian Moore, who has worked predominately at Bankers Trust. The CEFC will ...

Business, investors get certainty as carbon package passes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... impact of the scheme is small for almost all companies in the early years of the scheme, there will be little change in investment allocations right away and companies have time to adjust and plan for a clean future," the IGCC said in a statement. "Based ...

Microfinance a source of financial and social return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... has moved from being solely the remit of non-profits and aid agencies into the for-profit sphere, and has attracted investment from institutional investors such as superannuation funds who are seeking diversified sources of return in the context of responsible ...

Christian Super allocates $6m to social enterprise fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to administer the AU$20m Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF). SEDIF was established to improve social enterprises' access to finance to help them grow their business and ...

Systemic fault jeopardises proxy vote integrity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... industry-wide problem has stagnated. In 2007, a roundtable organised by the Financial Services Council (FSC), then known as the Investment and Financial Services Association Limited (IFSA), proposed steps that would result in the automation of the final ...

Consumers doubt energy retailers' "green" credentials

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... me is that people look at it and say nuclear energy is a viable opportunity," Hale said. "What interests me, from an investment point of view, does that mean that Australians would support more nuclear mining and would they support nuclear energy in ...

ACSI recommend against News Corp board re-election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has recommended that superannuation funds invested in News Corporation vote against the re-election of six of the company's executive directors in the upcoming annual general meeting. "Progress ...