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APRA: 22% of superannuation fund directors women

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... executive manager, governance at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees. "The fact that we have more women than ASX boards is a credit to the superannuation industry, but the types of responsibility that superannuation truest have lends ...

Remuneration consultant disclosure regime questioned

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
The rationale behind the requirement on listed companies to disclose information about remuneration consultants is "unclear" and the regime should either be discarded or improved to provide more specific information, according to a report by Ownership ...

Colonial First State GAM publishes global stewardship code

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... standards to bring the Australian funds management industry] in line with some of those global standards." Berrutti pointed to the ASX Corporate Governance Council's latest proposed standards which would ask listed companies to disclose material ESG ...

CDP: ASX200 companies set short term goals for C02 reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... reduction target that companies are setting," said James Day, CDP director Australia and New Zealand. "The targets set by most ASX companies are short term and do not yet adequately respond to the scale or long term nature of the climate change challenge ...

Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... and I am keen to see if members receive responses from their funds." See Also: Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices Investors alert to possible Metcash poker machine move

Inalytics, PIRC find corporate governance, share price link

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... rating all the stocks within the ASX200 or 300." Inalytics' Australian clients are expressing interest in the outcome of the ASX research, Field said.

66% of BM&FBOVESPA companies publish sustainability data

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... reality, it is vital that companies are encouraged to be more transparent about the information they choose to disclose." The ASX recently proposed amending its Governance Principles and Recommendations to ask listed companies to disclose how economic ...

ACSI: ASX100 boards more diverse in gender, background

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... there is clearly still work to be done," Byrne said. The majority of ASX100 companies are majority-independent, in line with ASX corporate governance guidelines and in line with ACSI's guideline criteria on board independence. The proportion of non-executive ...

ACSI: Average fixed CEO pay declined in 2012

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... the impact of the "two-strikes" rule. The decline in average fixed pay capped a five year period where average fixed pay for ASX 100 CEOs has risen by less than inflation and average weekly ordinary earnings, although median fixed pay has increased for ...

Dow Jones, RobecoSAM issue 2013 DJSI indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
Australia and New Zealand Banking, Tabcorp and Stockland are industry group leaders in the 2013 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) review. S&P Dow Jones Indices, in collaboration with RobecoSAM, have announced that the DJSI World Index 2013/2014 ...