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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 ...

Analysing the link between women directors and corporate returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... five year time horizons, but there is no suggestion that there is a causal relationship - i.e., that appointing women to boards will automatically generate outperformance. The incidence of outperformance in companies with women directors isn't understood ...

ASX500 companies increase number of women on boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... of ASX500 board positions, up from 7.1% in 2010. The three industry sectors with the highest representation of women on boards were financials, with 14.1% - up from 10.6% in 2010; healthcare, with 13% female representation, up from 10.1% last year; and ...

DEXUS profits up, water, energy and GHG intensity down

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... in 2011, the company established a new board membership policy that outlined its take on directors serving on multiple boards, "to guard against directors over committing their time," the report said. The company also created a diversity policy. In June ...

Companies increasing remuneration report transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 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 ...