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Proxy voting targets DEI and pay

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... Paulson, managing director for the International Equity team says increased attention is being paid to proxy voting by company boards and management. He believes proxy voting is key to improving long-term investment returns and is a crucial avenue to ...

Sandon Capital to buy carbon farms

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... managing director, chief investment officer and chair of the firm. The firm has an ethos of actively engaging with the boards of underperforming companies, to create change in operational and strategic initiatives in order to generate higher returns. ...

Investors fail to vote for climate despite pledges

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... climate risks by expanding the scale of the fossil fuel industry must face the credible threat that they will be voted off boards," Mr van de Pol said. "We urge all investors to take more meaningful action in line with their active ownership claims ...

Directors welcome new climate reporting regime

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... climate reporting is a generational shift that will need to be carefully managed, requiring extensive up-skilling across boards, organisations, the audit profession and the economy as a whole. We need to get this right and encourage a strategic rather ...

Why top firms have more women on boards: AICD

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). New AICD data finds top listed companies have at least 40% women on boards - while the February Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) data release found that overall, 34% of board members are women. ...

Directors sweat on climate: AICD

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... primarily at ASX 200 companies. Directors feel the need for a coordinated approach to meet net zero targets. A third of boards (32%) said they reconsidered their organisational strategy in response to climate risk and opportunity. 60% say climate change ...

Looking beyond the gender pay gap

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... personnel are men: men are 78% of CEOs, 63% of key management, and 58% of all managers. Women are also the minority in boards and governing bodies. 34% of board members are women, and 19% of chairs. 26% of boards do not have any women members at all. ...

Dramatic spike in votes against ASX remuneration: Georgeson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... analysis against the standards, prepare for robust data collection, due diligence and reporting processes and ensuring that boards are well informed about legislative changes, investors' expectations, and how climate change strategy is embedded in the ...

Podcast: Does DEI improve financial return - Raymone Jackson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... diversity is still lacking around too many board tables" in the financial sector, despite progress on increasing diversity on boards. Enhanced diversity and inclusion is "rapidly becoming the next frontier in ensuring sound governance and risk culture ...

ACCC issues greenwashing guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... of the possible consequences of greenwashing, it is essential that governance professionals equip themselves and their boards to tackle the issue," said Governance Institute CEO Megan Motto. ​"Having robust governance structures in place means that ...
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