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Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... resolutions on environmental and social issues. This is the first AGM season in which shareholders the right to remove directors if a company's remuneration report has received a 'no' vote of 25% or more at two consecutive AGMs - the so-called "two strikes ...

75% of ASX100 exposed to corruption in high-risk countries

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... severe international condemnation, damaged the reputation of AWB, resulted in several civil cases brought against former directors of AWB by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), and also resulted in AWB losing its monopoly export ...

ACSI reiterates no vote for News Corp board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... annual general meeting in Los Angeles on Friday. "News Corp board should comprise a majority of independent non-executive directors sufficiently equipped to provide independent oversight of the company's strategy and activities," said ACSI Chief Executive ...

Number of women on boards climbs slowly, ACSI finds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The number of women directors in the ASX100 continued to climb slowly in 2010, accounting for 26% of new non-executive directors and 12.2% of all directors, up from 11.1% in 2009, according to research by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors ...

Miscommunication hampers institutional vote engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
Although directors, institutional share owners and proxy advisers are eager to engage, particularly in the context of the share voting process, there is a failure to communicate at key junctures with all parties, particularly during the annual general ...

Analysing the link between women directors and corporate returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
A recent report noted that ASX500 companies with women directors had a higher average return on equity over the past three and five year time horizons, but there is no clear answer as to why this incidence seems to exist. The report by the Reibey Institute ...

ASX500 companies increase number of women on boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... in 2010 and jumped to 9.3% in 2011, "the highest proportional increase across all sectors." More than half of women directors - 60% - sit on boards for companies in the ASX200. The Reibey Institute's research suggests that ASX500 companies with women ...

Systemic fault jeopardises proxy vote integrity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... accurately voted and tabled by companies is especially important, given that shareholders now have increased powers to spill directors over executive remuneration reports. The Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Director and Executive ...

ACSI recommend against News Corp board re-election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... 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 on these issues is occurring too slowly, if at all. The upcoming annual ...

DEXUS profits up, water, energy and GHG intensity down

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... said. On the governance side, 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 ...