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Global investors push for corruption info

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... representing more than $1.7 trillion have written to 21 major companies urging them to improve their disclosure of bribery and corruption risks. The investors asked companies from eight sectors, including defence, construction and capital goods, to explain ...

ASX companies fall short on corruption disclosure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
Australian listed companies are not properly addressing potential corruption and bribery issues of their employees, a study revealed, amid one of Australia's biggest mining company's being forced to defend itself against corruption allegations. CAER ...

Bill backed for calling placement agents lobbyists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... payoffs for successfully persuading officials to invest public pension funds in business ventures is an invitation to corruption and abuse." "With hundreds of billions of retiree and taxpayer dollars on the line, this is no time to protect the status ...

Norwegian pension excludes tobacco firms

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... European engineering conglomerate, Siemens AG, 'on observation' after it was revealed the company had been embroiled in corruption early last year.

PE firm pays NY fund $20m in compensation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... General Andrew M. Cuomo announced an agreement with Leuschen to resolve Leuschen's role in Cuomo's investigation of corruption involving the New York State Common Retirement Fund ("the CRF"). Under the terms of the agreement, Leuschen will pay US $20 ...

Seven signs of the end of an empire

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... military overextension, and currency debasement. The remaining four factors include growing energy dependency, political corruption, economic financialisation and fall in manufacturing, and a loss of technological leadership. Some signs may not be as ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... decades - if not generations -- majority of the countries located in the Continent remains mired in poverty, famine, corruption and disease. In their desperation to avoid this fate, governments and central banks are experimenting with policies one after ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if ...

PRI members push CSR movement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... Markets indices to sign the UN Global Compact, a set of principles regarding human rights, the environment and anti-corruption strategies. The principles provide a framework of widely accepted standards for firms to use in their management of environmental ...

Australians wary of advice commissions

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
... said David Whiteley, executive manager of ISN. "This research demonstrates what has been described as a "structural corruption" endemic in the financial advice industry, which is driven by sales commissions and is creating widespread cynicism among the ...