Search Results

Showing 81 - 90 of 91 results for "Australian Securities"

Publish What You Pay campaigns for payments transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which will be piloted in Australia from July, and second, that the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) introduce rules that will make listed companies publish what they pay governments, in line with similar ...

ASIC renews call for better remuneration disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) say that companies can still improve their disclosures of executive and director remuneration. ASIC have reviewed a sample of 50 remuneration reports from ASX300 companies for the financial ...

Call for working group on shareholder resolution reform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... most robust rules from the legal point of 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 ...

Four appointed to Energy Security Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... includes the chairs of the Australian Energy Market Commission, the Australian Energy Regulator and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... asset holdings in conjunction with the Financial Services Council (FSC) that they will submit in June to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Both ASFA and FSC say they are in favour of increased disclosure of how assets are invested ...

Carbon Farming Initiative welcomed, more work to come

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... Services (AFS) in order to trade credits, because they are defined as financial products. Currently, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) recognize classes of tradable activity, and trading in CFI credits would be a new category. ...

Carbon credits to be regulated as financial products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... individuals that want to sell the credits will have to register for an AFS license, which is regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). "It's expected, and it's appropriate," said Grant Anderson, a partner in the energy ...

75% of ASX100 exposed to corruption in high-risk countries

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... damaged the reputation of AWB, resulted in several civil cases brought against former directors of AWB by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), and also resulted in AWB losing its monopoly export powers. See Also: Social risk ...

Carbon Farming Initiative offers landholders revenue opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... their liabilities by generating carbon credits. The credits are considered a financial product under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act, and as a result, will be subject to the financial service regulation regime. "In the mining ...

Women make strides in recent board appointments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... diversity across other demographic characteristics, noting that according to information published by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission, the average age of directors on listed and unlisted companies (comprising 23,448 directors) is ...