Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1031 - 1038 of 1038 results for "Boards"

AMP announces two new appointments to its board

... director of two publicly-listed companies, Newcrest Mining and Paperlinx and is chairwoman of a water utility and sits on the boards of other government bodies She was formerly a senior banking executive in international and project financing and also ...

ASIC to review accounting practices of 440 Australian entities

... indications of inappropriate reporting trends, ASIC said. ASIC said the programme will also reinforce the legal responsibility of Boards to ensure compliance with accounting standards. Performance in this area is being monitored, and blatant abuse of ...

Conroy cautions superannuation funds on use of hedge funds

... corporate world did deserve to be rewarded, he added. The Prime Minister said the responsibility for payouts fell with the boards of directors. Referring to these company boards Howard said, "If you want to keep the capitalist system free of too much ...

Trustees and managers must take active role in governance: ALP

... of a company (the shareholders) and the board. "To redress this imbalance," he said, "Labor wants shareholders to hold boards accountable, but to do this the shareholders need be empowered." "When you consider that the retirement incomes of Australians ...

Government acts on super system "designed to fail"

... applicable to super funds as well. "We have a massive focus on how companies are governed and super funds are lecturing company boards about how they govern themselves. It's now time for government and the industry to look very closely at how super funds ...

ASIC acts on Permanent compliance breaches

... Cash Management Fund. Compliance consultants will now provide three quarterly reviews to ASIC and the respective Permanent boards to report on the steps taken by Permanent to address the breaches. "Ultimately, the licensees are responsible for ensuring ...

Campbell sees greater protective role for CFOs

... takeover activity in Australia would be boosted as a result of such takeover reform by putting pressure on under-performing boards. The Mandatory Bid Rule would allow a shareholder with less than 20 per cent of a company to purchase a controlling stake ...

IFSA welcomes ASX corporate governance guidelines

... the guidelines or explain to investors why they have chosen a different approach," said Gilbert. "IFSA calls on company boards to embrace the guidelines in good spirit in order to improve corporate governance in Australian companies. They are flexible ...