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ASX 200 hits female director target

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
The Australian Institute of Company Directors' goal of increasing gender diversity on ASX 200 boards has been met, albeit a year after its original target. The ASX 200 has now achieved 30% female representation on boards. It comes more than four years ...

Advice group appoints director

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... and Tas Foods. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a member of the Institute of Company Directors. Beard was previously the chief executive of ASX-listed investment company CVC Limited.

Chief economist update: Businesses remain unmoved by low rates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
... drink. The NAB survey is consistent with the bi-annual survey of 1489 members of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) - released in late October - which found that around 59% of directors anticipate weak domestic economic conditions over ...

HUB24 announces new board appointment

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... one of the only ASX200 companies without a female representative on its board in the Australian Institute of Company Directors' Gender Diversity Report for 2019.

Chief economist update: Beam us up Scotty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... This is hardly surprising and is consistent with the new survey of 1489 members of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) which found that around 59% of directors anticipate weak domestic economic conditions over the next 12 months, compared ...

Insider trading rife among company directors: ANU

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
Research conducted by the Australian National University suggests insider trading by company directors and associated trading on the Australian Security Exchange is "rife". The research examined trades made by company directors after positive and negative ...

Calls to give ASIC power to repair reputations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2019
... victims to and from the guillotine," he said. He also lashed out at the "unrealistic" expectations placed on company directors, claiming it deters people from taking on board positions. Crutchfield is chair of the ASX-listed fintech Zip Co, and warned ...

30% Club expands target

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... aiming to increase the number of women on the boards of listed companies outside the ASX200. The number of female company directors for the companies below the ASX200 but within the ASX300 stood at just 19.7%, 30% Club chair Nicola Wakefield Evans noted. ...

Former ASFA chair sees new EQT role

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
Equity Trustees is welcoming a new deputy chair, moving a former Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chair alongside current EQT chairman Jeff Kennett. Jim Minto has been appointed as deputy chair of Equity Trustees. It is a move set to ...

Australia ahead in gender diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
... 2018. The latter is just shy of the 30% target set by Australia's 30% Club in May 2015. Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) board diversity manager Rhian Richardson says it's "an amazing achievement." "Although it's not 30%, it's almost ...