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Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Climate Change, has written to 45 companies with fossil fuel assets, requesting detailed responses before their annual shareholder meetings in early 2014. Local Government Super, Christian Super, LUCRF Super, Australian Ethical Investment and Five Oceans ...

Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... for 2013, BHP Chairman Jac Nasser detailed the opposition to Dunlop's candidacy. "This year, an individual retail shareholder has nominated an additional candidate for election: Ian Dunlop," Nasser said in the invitation from the chairman. "The Board ...

Inalytics, PIRC find corporate governance, share price link

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Analysis from Inalytics and PIRC, an independent governance research and shareholder voting adviser, has demonstrated that share prices of listed companies with high governance risk performed poorly over time, whereas the share price of listed companies ...

Northern Trust develops emerging markets low CO2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... emissions." Earlier this year, Northern Trust announced that it was collaborating with MSCI ESG Research and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and it had created the first emerging markets custom index to incorporate environmental social and governance ...

ACSI: ASX100 boards more diverse in gender, background

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... 2012, 23 are former executives, 14 are current executives, seven are law/accounting partners, six are substantial shareholder reps, three are former politicians and two are former public servants. Furthermore, the report found that there are now 105 ...

NAB's 'Wealth of Opportunity' a new CSR narrative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
National Australia Bank is launching a communication strategy to talk about corporate responsibility to both internal and external stakeholders, shareholders and customers. said Paula Benson, general manager, corporate responsibility, NAB The strategy ...

ACSI: Average fixed CEO pay declined in 2012

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... straight years, ACSI's research showed. "The decline in fixed pay of ASX100 CEOs shows that the market is responding to shareholder concerns over continual pay increases," said Ann Byrne, ACSI CEO. "It should be recognised that boards are increasingly ...

GNDI comments on proposed Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
The Global Network of Director Institutes (GNDI) supports improvements to corporate reporting as proposed in the International Integrated Reporting Framework, but says that any changes to the way organisations report should reduce the overall reporting ...

Corporate governance guidelines on agenda ahead of AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
Boards of listed companies are more proactively seeking out meetings with active investors and engagement organisations, and in an unanticipated benefit of the impact of the two strikes rule, engagement specialists are saying boards are more receptive ...

Focus on short-term growth could undercut long term gain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
Companies and shareholders who focus on the short-term may be sacrificing tomorrow's growth for today's gain, according to AMP Capital's biannual corporate governance report. Karin Halliday, AMP Capital corporate governance manager In addition to reporting ...