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ASX100 CEO pay remains below 2009 peak: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... maximum indicates that they bear little relation to performance in many companies. We welcome recent examples of the use of board discretion to reduce bonuses. However, we can't help wondering why these executives would have qualified for any payments ...

Less than half of ASX100 companies have exec-level technologist: Calastone

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... continually engage with clients, is accelerating internally as well. For the funds management industry, and companies across the board, technology is such a fundamental part of how companies work on the inside. IT has always been relegated to the back ...

Colonial First State Global Asset Management publish stewardship report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) have published their tenth annual Responsible Investment and Stewardship Report, benchmarking the asset manager's performance on a range of internal and external performance. Pablo Berrutti,head ...

Australian, NZ organisations consider impacts of bribery, corruption: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... top, but their business is run in the businesses, so you need the right tone in the middle," he said. "You might have the board, the exec might have a forthright view of how things are done, but you need compliance in PNG, or Africa and Indonesia. That's ...

ANZ, NAB join initiative to pilot Task force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... standardised information and follows on from the publication last month of the final recommendations by the Financial Stability Board's (FSB) TCFD. The final recommendations of the TCFD were presented to the G20 leaders at their summit in Hamburg earlier ...

Local Government Super appoints Katherine O'Regan as board chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
Local Government Super (LGS) has appointed Katherine O'Regan as its first female chair to the board. O'Regan is an existing director, and "extensive experience in local government, financial services and board engagement," LGS said. O'Regan has previously ...

Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures releases final report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... the final document, the substance remained the same. Mardi McBrien managing director of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board said the organisations has a "few questions" for the TCFD around language in the definitions of financial filings and mainstream ...

VicSuper joins Financial Inclusion Action Plan program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... inclusion and empowerment- it's one of the key elements of our corporate responsibility roadmap, which was signed off by the board almost three years ago now, said Kirsten Simpson, manager, corporate responsibility at VicSuper. "So it's been a key topic ...

Will Australia adopt the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures recommendations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
The G20 Financial Stability Board's Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is preparing its final recommendations, which will be presented to the G20 Leaders' Summit in July. As the TCFD considers the final draft of the TCFD guidelines ...

New South Wales Treasury Corporation joins ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
The New South Wales Treasury Corporation (TCorp) has joined the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). Louise Davidson, ACSI CEO TCorp is the financial and investment management provider for the NSW Government and manages more than $80 ...