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Wealth management investigations spike

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... through the courts," he said. Price also gave an update of its new supervisory approaches - including the corporate governance taskforce and continuous monitoring of large financial services. "Under our close and continuous monitoring program we have ...

Super fund proxy voting behaviour revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... England believe that ExxonMobil's inadequate response to climate change constitutes a serious failure of corporate governance to which shareholders should respond firmly." "The fund and the Church Commissioners believe that at this time, ExxonMobil ...

Push for chief executive pay ratio disclosure

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2019
... against that of their company's average worker and for boards to be elected annually. ACSI is calling for a corporate governance framework that will hold companies accountable for conduct that harms investors and the community. In line with this, ACSI ...

ASIC outlines enforcement efforts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... from 75 investigations opened by the regulatory body, 57 of which werecompleted. ASIC said it resolved 30 corporate governance related outcomes between 1 July 2018 and 31 December 2018. There were 14 criminal and 17 civil corporate governance matters ...

New board directors at Future Generation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
... the board. Stephanie will bring significant accounting, financial analytics, and philanthropic, digital and corporate governance credentials." FGX's investment committee has Sunsuper portfolio manager of hedge funds Bruce Tomlinson, Zenith Investment ...

Gender pay gap should be government priority

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... funding for the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, and supporting female angel investor networks. The ASX Corporate Governance Council recently revised its principles and urged ASX300 companies to have a minimum 30% gender diversity target. The Australian ...

MSCI ups China A-shares, managers respond

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... practices and to adopt strategies that more firmly consider shareholders' interest, as companies with better corporate governance are more likely to be owned by foreign investors. Many companies with good corporate governance practices in the market ...

New ASX governance principles target culture

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
The ASX and its new corporate governance principles unveiled overnight are taking a leaf out of Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's final recommendations. The fourth iteration of the ASX Corporate Governance Council's principles and recommendations ...

Family office backs new boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... local presence to ensure investments are made in only the highest quality companies with a focus on strong corporate governance. We are very excited by the opportunity to be a major investor in their first fund." Their family office is called the Trawalla ...

Major shareholders defy proxy advisers: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... received a strike rose to 27 from 22 the previous year. "The increased scrutiny placed on board performance and corporate governance in the wake of the Royal Commission into the Banking and Financial Services sector has led to investors increasingly ...