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Perpetual to extend ESG dashboard to fixed income space

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... company Washington H. Soul Pattinson (SOL), a management company with interests in shares, coal mining, distribution and retail of pharmaceutical products and manufacture of building products. An investor in SOL for almost 20 years, Perpetual has been ...

AMP trials smartphone voting for annual general meeting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... for its November 2011 AGM, but AMP is the first Australian client to use it. The smartphone option is targeted towards retail investors. AMP has more than 900,000 shareholders. "We have a broad demographic of voters," Reid said. "A majority will still ...

Calls for expedited reduction of SRES multiplier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
A debate has emerged over whether the federal government should wind back the Small Scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) multiplier more quickly than the default timetable, with supporters saying that a potential oversupply in the number of SRES for ...

NAB partners to launch Victorian microfinance retail hubs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
NAB, Good Shepherd Microfinance and the Victorian state government have launched an AU$7.8m retail project to provide access to microfinance products, financial counselling and other services to financially excluded people in Victoria. Good Shepherd ...

CSA warns on timing of undirected proxy vote legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... accordance with existing law." CSA says that if the amendment doesn't pass in time to take effect during the 2012 AGM season, retail shareholders could lose the right to vote on executive remuneration resolutions and there is the risk of triggering a ...

New South Wales announces first social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... negotiate that with government while we get this up and running - are they willing to share the risk in such a way to get those retail investors to have a level of risk certainty?" The consortium members will all hold part of the bonds, and Westpac will ...

GPT Group reports 2011 reductions in waste, energy and water

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... uplift in the value of the US Seniors Housing portfolio." GPT is a diversified property group, which owns real estate in the retail, office and industrial/business park sectors, and has a funds management arm as well. GPT noted that during the 2011 financial ...

Women only 19% of superannuation fund trustee boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... minority on superannuation trustee boards, comprising only 19% of trustees at not-for-profit funds and an estimated 10% of retail funds, according to research from Rainmaker Information. "Women are grossly under-represented on fund trustee boards, which ...

AMP Capital, VFMC publish 2011 proxy voting record

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... are trying to get so much information across and are trying to target their communication to a variety of shareholders - retail as well as institutional - it's quite a hard job for companies to do the disclosures, but we are seeing some improvement." ...

CDP writes companies asking for carbon management and cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... segment are 159 companies with the potential for large supply chain emissions reductions including internet and catalogue retail, multiline retail, specialty retail, food and staples retailing, household durables, household products, personal products ...