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Proxy adviser reforms overturned by Senate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... personnel arrangements and "capacity to influence decision-making." "The entire exercise was a cluster fiasco," said Dean Paatsch, director and co-founder of Ownership Matters, one of the four proxy advisers impacted by the regulations "I thank the Senate ...

Proxy advisers assess impacts of government reform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
... proxy adviser in Australia has an unrestricted AFSL to provide general advice only for wholesale investors," said Dean Paatsch, director and co-founder of Ownership Matters. "What the new regulations require is for them to get effectively a sublicense ...

ACSI publishes report calling for introduction of non-binding shareholder resolutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... Woolworths, asking for increased transparency in human rights and labour rights in their agricultural supply chain. Dean Paatsch, director of Ownership Matters, told The Sustainability Report that it may be time for regulators to create a more formal ...

Governance experts discuss issues in AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... dialogue around aligning company performance and shareholder expectation. "There are three themes I can identify," said Dean Paatsch, director at Ownership Matters. "One is board/director accountability. We are seeing more willingness on the part of ...

Operational changes needed to strengthen AGM voting: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... identify and explain the problem. "This research proved what we already know - the system is operationally weak," said Dean Paatsch, director of Ownership Matters. "That's the take-away. It's not rocket science at all. If we ran a banking system in the ...

Ownership Matters hires Marty Chung

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
Ownership Matters (OM) has appointed Marty Chung as a senior governance analyst. Chung joins Dean Paatsch, Martin Lawrence and Simon Connal as part of the OM team that is focused on the governance of Australian companies and capital markets. Chung previously ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... strikes rule because it conflates the right to remove a board with the feedback they're being given on pay," said Dean Paatsch, a director at Ownership Matters. "I've detected no appetite on the behalf of institutional voters to start chucking out boards ...

Dean Paatsch launches new governance advisory firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
Governance experts Dean Paatsch, Martin Lawrence and Simon Connal have launched a new governance advisory business, Ownership Matters (OM). The independent, Australian focused governance firm has a suite of services aimed at financial institutions - ...

Systemic fault jeopardises proxy vote integrity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... "There have been some market developments, but no system-wide impacts that have eliminated the manual processes," said Dean Paatsch, a governance consultant, former CEO of proxy voting advisor RiskMetrics and a co-convenor of the 2007 FSC roundtable. ...
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