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Listed companies improve ESG approach

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) found that 79% of listed Australian companies surveyed this year had improved their environment, social and governance (ESG) approach. In 2014, ACSI had chosen 28 companies as engagement priorities ...

Cbus appoints ESG investment manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
... replacing Louise Davidson after the latter became chief executive of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) earlier this year. Bradford previously worked with GE Capital as Asia-Pacific environmental and social risk leader. In that ...

Growth of women on boards painfully slow: ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... market focus on board gender diversity. The statistic comes from the latest Australian Council of Superannuation Investors' (ACSI) report in to board composition and non-executive director pay among ASX200 companies. From the total ASX200 sample, women ...

Board gender diversity further scrutinised by ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has released new governance guidelines which consider recommending against the re-election of directors in companies which perform poorly on board gender diversity. The guideline dealing with ...

Kinetic Super appoints board director

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
... continued steps towards gender balanced representation as advocated by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI)," Kinetic Super said. The fund also noted that new governance rules expected to be in place in 2016 are likely to require ...

Hostplus CEO joins ACSI board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... executive David Elia was recently appointed as a director on the board of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). ACSI chief executive Louise Davidson confirmed the appointment and said the council was pleased to have someone of Elia's ...

Highest paid industry CEOs revealed

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... executives received eight figure salaries in 2014, the latest research from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) revealed. The ACSI 'CEO Pay in ASX 200 Companies' report A looked at the earnings reports from ASX100 companies and ...

Manus and Nauru are immoral and risky: super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... out," Rodwell-Ball said. He explained that NGS Super uses reports from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) as a source of information for environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues of the companies that it invests in through ...

ACSI calls for better company disclosure

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) believes more progress is needed to embed better anti-corruption and bribery disclosures in major Australian companies. ACSI says while there has been a general improvement in disclosure quality ...

Financial services fail to share mental health data

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... employee mental health against wider standards. According to a new report by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), only a third of financial services companies disclose workforce turnover rates, just a quarter reveal workforce satisfaction ...