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Leightons under investigation over payment disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Corporate Analysis. Enhanced Responsibility, said that other companies could uncover similar situations. Leighton disclosed to the ASX the possible breach, which refers to a payment made by Leighton subsidiary Leighton Offshore. Leighton Holdings' Chairman ...

Call for working group on shareholder resolution reform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... view," Thomas said. "Failing that, we would like to have [The Australian Securities and Investments Commission] ASIC or the ASX, in the case of listed companies, to issue clear guidelines or rules, which would have a cascading effect from the top down." ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Net Balance Foundation. According to the study, Adoption of integrated reporting in the ASX 50, nine companies achieved a score of 70% and above, ranked on six aspects of operations that would be affected should an ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
More than half of the 12 institutional investors that participated in a 2011 Mercer climate change survey have decided to include climate change considerations in future risk management and/or strategic asset allocation processes. Through the Looking ...

ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... Singapore released a corporate governance guide as well." In Australia, ESG reporting is introduced via Principle 7 of the ASX Corporate Governance Council Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations. Principle 7 establishes how companies should ...

KPMG: companies should review anti-corruption policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... response is and what planning has been done enables a quick response." There is significant risk of exposure to corruption for ASX-listed companies. According to the ACSI report, three quarters of ASX100 companies operate in a sector or country deemed ...

Highlights of a year in The Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... they should be presented. KPMG: sustainability strategies driven by cost reduction, environment Integrated reporting - should ASX follow in South Africa's footsteps? Sustainability reporting: the drive towards integration NSW coal miners engage in landmark ...

Share placements become governance issue for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... issues. To give scope on the amount of money companies accessed through capital raisings, approximately AU$100bn was raised S&P/ASX 200 entities in 2008 and 2009 through 279 separate capital raisings, according to a paper written by Simon Connal and ...

Optus CR discloses responsible marketing, customer service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... building social inclusion were all material issues to their corporate responsibility (CR) goal. Optus, a subsidiary of the ASX and Singapore Exchange-listed Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), defined their CR goal as being "a company that ...

Reports critique ASX companies' supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
The social and environmental supply chain policies and disclosures of ASX-listed companies has come under renewed scrutiny, with Net Balance concluding ASX100 companies do not uniformly disclose those supply chain impacts, and the Australian Council ...