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Aware Super adds to board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
... the state executive board for the Australian Labor Party NSW and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. "Angela is joining us at an exciting time for Aware Super following our two major mergers last year, and as assets under management ...

OpenMarkets hires, acquires, preps for IPO

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... executive of Chief Executive Women and sits on the boards of Sydney Living Museums, Australian Institute of Company Directors, Knight Frank Australia, Holmart Pharmaceuticals and Murray River Organics. Rutherford was one of the founders of Koda Capital ...

ACSI launches new climate change policy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... exposed to material climate related risks. Where companies fall short, ACSI now recommends members vote against company directors. "As the impact of climate change becomes a reality, the approach that investors take to manage these risks has to be more ...

SuperFriend appoints chair

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... Victoria and chief executive of the City of Melbourne. More recently, she was chair of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is currently chair of Nestle Australia, Bank of Melbourne and a non-executive director at Lendlease. "We are excited ...

Business registration to be updated

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
... experience. The first function of the ABRS will be director identification numbers which are a requirement for all company directors. The director ID will be a unique identifier that a director can keep forever regardless of whether they cease to be ...

Continuous disclosure laws to stay

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... said. Class Actions Australia spokesperson Ben Hardwick commented the announcement "would advantage powerful company directors over mum and dad investors". Hardwick labelled the proposal as "morally wrong" and unlikely to pass the senate. "The last thing ...

The trouble with best financial interests duty

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... direction for part four was fairly light. Christian Gergis, the head of policy at the Australian Institute of Company Directors, said the proposal needs better elucidation and the fact that it was introduced implies that trustees are not currently doing ...

Lack of diversity major business risk: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... companies, communities, and our economy - and is material to long-term sustainable returns." SSGA contacted global company directors in August 2020 to advise companies that their diversity engagements had expanded to include discussions of race and ethnicity ...

The real cost of a bad chief executive: AICD, ACSI

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
... culture from the top can permeate an entire organisation. The report, produced by the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), surveyed directors at Australia's largest companies ...

Nasdaq proposes diversity rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... "Australian firms are on the right track; the latest board diversity statistics by the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) show the percentages of female directors is 26% and 32.1% for the ASX All Ords and the ASX200, respectively." Zhong ...