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New board directors at Future Generation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
... the board. Stephanie will bring significant accounting, financial analytics, and philanthropic, digital and corporate governance credentials." FGX's investment committee has Sunsuper portfolio manager of hedge funds Bruce Tomlinson, Zenith Investment ...

Gender pay gap should be government priority

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... funding for the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, and supporting female angel investor networks. The ASX Corporate Governance Council recently revised its principles and urged ASX300 companies to have a minimum 30% gender diversity target. The Australian ...

MSCI ups China A-shares, managers respond

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... practices and to adopt strategies that more firmly consider shareholders' interest, as companies with better corporate governance are more likely to be owned by foreign investors. Many companies with good corporate governance practices in the market ...

New ASX governance principles target culture

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
The ASX and its new corporate governance principles unveiled overnight are taking a leaf out of Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's final recommendations. The fourth iteration of the ASX Corporate Governance Council's principles and recommendations ...

Family office backs new boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... local presence to ensure investments are made in only the highest quality companies with a focus on strong corporate governance. We are very excited by the opportunity to be a major investor in their first fund." Their family office is called the Trawalla ...

Major shareholders defy proxy advisers: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... received a strike rose to 27 from 22 the previous year. "The increased scrutiny placed on board performance and corporate governance in the wake of the Royal Commission into the Banking and Financial Services sector has led to investors increasingly ...

PSP ramps up Aussie agriculture investment

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... committed to best practices in the areas of employee health and safety, the environment, community engagement and corporate governance. "We have full confidence in BFB's management team and its employees to continue to grow this incredible farming ...

Ausbil ESG strategy advances

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 JAN 2019
... increasingly coming from intangible drivers and they're often ESG drivers, such as corporate culture and corporate governance. A proprietary ESG research team has the capability to learn more about a company's values, he said. "A couple of years ago ...

For-profit lobbying leads to $53bn problem: AIST

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... super sector are posing big problems for Australia's retirement system. Latest research from the AIST and UTS corporate governance professor Thomas Clarke shows concessions in the reforms to Australia's superannuation system designed to benefit the for-profit ...

Industry funds lead website experience

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... Transition to Retirement (TTR) accounts (0.7 higher) and locating Age Pension information (0.6 points higher). Corporate governance documents were tough to locate on both industry fund and retail fund websites but industry funds scored 0.3 points higher. ...