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Vote Your Pension platform calls for global member action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... year, Poulter noted. One of the other aims of the Vote Your Pension campaign is to shed further light on how the proxy voting process works, to further encourage pension fund members to engage with their funds on issues, Poulter said. "One of the things ...

LGS publicly discloses proxy voting intentions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
Local Government Super has launched a shareholder voting website that discloses the fund's proxy voting intentions ahead of company shareholder meetings. LGS CEO Peter Lambert "The main objective of the new site is to increase transparency and disclosure ...

Universities "fail" on climate risk mitigation: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... awarded points from Australia's prestigious Group of Eight," the report said. "The former received points as its proxy voting policy online. The latter received points for incorporating climate change into its investment policy, despite a lack of clarity ...

AMP Capital reviews corporate governance activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... evolved differently around the world, and as a result, AMP Capital has developed a nuanced, case-by-case approach to proxy voting and engaging with companies in varying markets. Karin Halliday, AMP Capital corporate governance manager AMP Capital's 2013/2014 ...

Mercer hires Alexis Cheang to Responsible Investment team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... and head of Mercer's responsible investments for Asia Pacific. "In light of new industry requirements to publish a proxy voting policy and disclose voting results, Alexis will also add her expertise to our advisory work on governance, voting and engagement. ...

CFSGAM reports on responsible investment, stewardship

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... issues are complex and ever-changing," he said. "This is why engagement is a key plank responsible investment, and proxy voting is key plank, but what happens in meetings with companies, it's not always possible to tell the full story.. However, there ...

FSC standard mandates ESG policy for superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... ESG risk management policy for a default fund/MySuper product, superannuation funds must develop and implement a proxy voting policy and disclosure standard, and a board diversity policy including the establishment of "measurable objectives for achieving ...

Colonial First State GAM publishes global stewardship code

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... fund manager has begun disclosing all their proxy votes on a vote-by-vote basis in their corporate governance and proxy voting report on their website. Berrutti said that Financial Services Council (FSC) had established standards for fund managers to ...

Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Dunlop's candidacy, right down to the voting form highlighting 'do not accept this nomination', but also the three proxy voting advisory groups have all come out publicly and said they will be voting against the candidacy. It exposes the unrepresentative ...

Cbus to divest from tobacco assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... divest its holdings in a particular sector. Our preference is to work to influence companies through meetings and proxy voting. However, we took the view that this approach would not work in this case as we would be arguing that tobacco companies cease ...