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Super funds show 5.7% jump in percentage of women directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
Superannuation fund trustee boards have a higher percentage of women on their boards than ASX listed companies. This week, Women on Boards (WOB) presented their 2015 Boardroom Diversity Index (BDI), which evaluated 1422 organisations across multiple ...

Increase in ASX board cultural diversity: DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
Cultural diversity on ASX-listed corporate boards has increased, but boardrooms do not yet reflect the broader Australian community, according to research from Diversity Council Australia (DCA). Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council Australia DCA partnered ...

Women on Boards tracks gender diversity gains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... companies, not-for-profits, sporting boards and other entities. According to the BDI, the superannuation sector, sport, the ASX 100 and cooperative research centres have all posted greater than 5% increases in the number of women on boards. By contrast ...

Investors to engage with payday lenders over practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
A coalition of investors and other stakeholders are planning to engage with ASX-listed payday lenders and goods rental companies in a campaign to improve their lending policies to financially vulnerable Australians. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management ...

Social, regulatory risks to growing payday lending market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Pacific/Australia Equity Research team authored a report examining various social, regulatory and governance issues relating to ASX-listed payday lending and goods rental businesses Thorn Group, Cash Converters, Money3 and Flexigroup. The report, written ...

Gordon Hagart to leave ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
Ed note: Updates with comment from Gordon Hagart, ACSI Gordon Hagart is leaving his role as chief executive officer of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) to return to Europe. Hagart's announcement is "unexpected and regrettable," ...

ACSI sets goal of 30% women on ASX200 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... diversity, but these come from a very low base. Our data show that unless we see an accelerated number of women appointed to ASX 200 boards, further progress will be unacceptably slow," said Gordon Hagart, ACSI CEO. "ACSI hopes that Australian boards ...

Looking ahead to sustainability trends in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... companies will have new guidelines to consider when reporting environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Last year, the ASX Group's Corporate Governance Council published a third edition of the Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations. ...

The Sustainability Report's top articles of 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... disclosure recommendations, ESG integration in investment strategies, green bonds, and valuation of corporate social programs. ASX includes ESG language in corporate governance guidance The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has recommended that listed ...

Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... investor, and clearly governments should not be talking about directing investment. But superannuation money has built the ASX, it has capitalised listed companies, the property and infrastructure sector as well. We haven't been any good at telling the ...