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J.P. Morgan rates Australian REITs reporting, management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... reviewed governance, including board structures and independence, director remuneration/shareholdings and executive remuneration as part of the analysis. "We do not adopt a hard line on best practice corporate governance," the report said. "While we ...

CFSGAM to create global responsible investment committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... board to express our view as active shareholders." Meanwhile, the Australian Equities Core fund listed executive remuneration, corporate governance, issues relating to staffing and safety and supply chain as related to social and environmental issues ...

Mercer: use responsible investment to reduce return leakage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... interest on the climate change issue from the investor side." On the company level, companies should focus on executive remuneration that rewards real value generation, not only stock performance, as well as increasing reporting on real performance by ...

Boards increasing engagement on remuneration reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... companies are continuing to increase the amount of time they spend engaging with investors, particularly around executive remuneration issues, said Amanda Wilson, Regnan managing director. Wilson said that in the lead-up to this year's annual general ...

Stockland publishes integrated 2012 annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... that will provide significant future profits and to fund our security buyback." Stockland reviewed its executive remuneration policies, which was completed in the 2012 financial year, a review the company said was taken in response to changes to remuneration ...

UNPRI signatories name corporate ESG engagement issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) signatories say that executive remuneration, climate change and supply chain labour standards are "priority areas of engagement" with invested companies in the next year. These areas of engagement ...

Emerging listed miners catching up on corporate governance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... are more likely to be addressed, because of the board's biggest role of appointing the CEO. In terms of executive remuneration with the small companies - they don't have the resources that the larger companies do to structure their remuneration. They're ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... of view, a lack of board independence raises the risk of nepotism, related party transactions, excessive executive remuneration, etc." AMP Capital has voted against a number of remuneration reports and director elections for those companies in the media ...

CSA warns on timing of undirected proxy vote legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... 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 negative vote against a company under the two-strike rule. CSA said in a statement ...

Fund manager: remuneration reports filled with "mumbo jumbo"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) noted that according to the results of an ASIC analysis of executive remuneration reports filed to 30 June 2011, disclosures had improved, "but there is still work to do on disclosure." ASIC reviewed a sample ...