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ACSI: companies paid premium for rights issue underwriting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... capital raisings as well as query board oversight of the process. The report also recommends that rule makers such as the ASX should enhance disclosure and continue to improve the efficiency of the rights issue process. "First, the ASX Listing Rules ...

UCA Funds Management release 2013 annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
UCA Funds Management's assets under management grew by 10% to more than AU$900 million last year and will register their retail funds as registered managed investment schemes, according to their 2013 annual report. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management ...

ASIC guide widens scope of risk, future prospect disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... is a document that has been released in the context of other recent regulatory changes, such as the recent changes to the ASX Corporate Governance Council's recommendations that companies disclose material environmental, economic and social information ...

Sustainability reporting a source of key business value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... see companies forced to disclose environmental, social and governance issues that are material to the business, citing the ASX Corporate Governance Council's recent introduction of principle 7.4 in the third edition of its Corporate Governance Guidelines ...

Labour rights, NGO activism and governance cited as ESG trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... supply chain, but it's got a long tail," he said. Going forward, both Chioatto and Murphy said that recent changes to the ASX Corporate Governance Council's recommendations that companies disclose material environmental, economic and social information ...

ASX companies lag global peers in disclosing water risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
ASX listed companies in water-sensitive sectors are more likely to be exposed to near-term water risks than global peers, but only 46% of those ASX companies disclosed information to the CDP for its Australia Water Report 2013. Graphic courtesy of CDP ...

ASX reports on progress towards gender diversity targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014  |  NEWS
Nearly all ASX-listed companies have adopted gender diversity policies or explained why not, but there is still a wide difference in performance when it comes to setting measurable objectives and disclosure of the proportion of women in organisations ...

Investors say non-financials matter in investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... important?" Non-financial, ESG/sustainability information disclosures is by and large a voluntary activity -recently, the ASX joined Bovespa Brazil, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the Shen-Zeng Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange by requiring ...

ASX includes ESG language in corporate governance guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has recommended that listed companies disclose how economic, environmental and social sustainability risks are being identified and managed. This week the ASX Group's Corporate Governance Council published a ...

Ethical Investment Advisers launches fossil-fuel free SMA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... is 1.14% model manager and administration fee, she said. The Ethical Investment Advisers Mid-Cap SMA's benchmark is the S&P/ASX Mid-Cap 50, and has returned 2.37% since inception, compared with the All Ordinaries Index which gained 0.56% during the same ...