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Investors discuss reporting on risks via Modern Slavery Act

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... requiring companies to introduce a public statement that's signed off on by directors, it has elevated modern slavery to the board level and in the first year since it was introduced, CEO engagement with human rights and modern slavery reportedly doubled. ...

Impact Investing Australia to administer $7m Australian government fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... to enable social enterprises to grow their impact. IIA, a not-for-profit organisation supporting the Australian Advisory Board for Impact Investing in growing the impact investing market, has managed the Impact Investment Ready Growth Grant for the past ...

Sustainable Business Australia names John Hewson chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
Sustainable Business Australia has announced that Dr John Hewson will be the organisation's new chair-elect to its board. Andrew Petersen, CEO, Sustainable Business Australia "Dr Hewson joining Sustainable Business Australia as chair comes at crucial ...

Diverse boards can provide "profitability moat" to future returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
The level of board diversity is associated with higher contemporaneous return on equity, and can also be a predictor of a company's ability to protect future profits, according to new research from AXA IM Rosenberg Equities. Kathryn McDonald, director ...

ACCR files resolution to Qantas AGM over deportations and removals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... or exclusively vested in the directors has been or should be exercised." It has also filed a second resolution asking the board to "commit to engaging a heightened due diligence process in relation to any involuntary transportation activity it is involved ...

Australia's disclosure of executive remuneration lagging: AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... against management recommendations at 26 meetings (18%). AXA IM spoke to the need for "additional independent voices on the board at Ramsay Health Care," during the 2017 AGM season. "Where it becomes difficult for us to decipher how or to what extent ...

Pauline Vamos resigns as chief executive officer of Regnan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... has resigned as CEO of Regnan. Pauline Vamos, Regnan chief executive Vamos has worked as CEO for 12 months, and the Regnan board "thanks Ms Vamos for her significant contribution to Regnan over the last 12 months and the leadership she has delivered ...

US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... Belong Together coalition. "This is a giant undertaking, and it's recently launched, so more organisations are coming on board every day. There will be a drum beat of organisations working online and on the ground to raise visability.... We have a rainbow ...

Q&A: Yolanda Beattie, Mercer, talks Future IM/Pact initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... number. Really you only need 50 if they're doing all the right things. The harder part is going to be getting the industry on board to really give them the opportunities, or to help me find them in the first place, and then to give them the opportunities ...

Michael Dwyer appointed chairman of Australia for UNHCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... people fleeing conflict. Last year it raised $38.7 million to deliver humanitarian aid in 53 countries. Dwyer has been a board director for Australia for UNHCR since its launch in 2000. During this time he has visited UNHCR operations in countries including ...