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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... Esho said US aluminium giant Aloca's weak results at the start of the US reporting season had weighed on markets. "You've got AGM season coming up, traders are more stock-selective in equities and they'll take profits where there's large profits in this ...

Super funds fail on carbon disclosure

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... including many of the country's largest industry funds, Local Government Super and industry super fund MTAA. During the Woodside AGM, 27,325,549 shares were voted in favour of the resolution with 439,313,407 against and 13,647,015 abstained. "Disappointingly ...

Aus Ethical and TCI score win in climate advocacy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... regards to Aquila and Paladin. We are now turning our attention to Woodside and will be engaging with them ahead of their AGM next year," said Phil Vernon, managing director of Australian Ethical.

Heat rises on emissions disclosure

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... impinged on the board's authority to manage the company. A third resolution lodged with Oil Search has been accepted for its AGM in May 2011. Woodside Petroleum is taking legal advice on the resolution and has committed to responding before their April ...

Shareholder activism at the Future Fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... approach of the Future Fund has been further reinforced after it voted against all three resolutions proposed at the Telstra AGM on Friday. The fund's board of governors voted against a proposal to appoint Nora Scheinkestel as a new director of Telstra. ...

Shareholders vent fury over exec pay

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... legacy equity schemes, it should probably be regarded as an outlier year," the company's chairman, Peter Polson said in his AGM address. Over a 5-year period, the total shareholder return stood at 41 per cent, he said.

DKN champions fee for service, unveils "land grab" strategy

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... planning-related businesses over the next few years. The company's chief executive Phil Butterworth told investors in his AGM presentation that the company remains an ardent supporter of "fee for service" "DKN is in absolute in its belief that wealth ...

Platinum feels the force of term deposits

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... the competition from bank term deposits is intense," Platinum Asset Management's chairman Michael Cole told investors in his AGM address on Friday. "Bank deposits offer real rates of return of around 4 per cent per annum. This is similar to the projected ...

INQ buys HUB24 for $20 million

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... managing director of Investorfirst. The deal is subject to approval by Investorfirst shareholders at the company's upcoming AGM.

Cashed up AustralianSuper ready to pounce

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... opportunities". "Some of these have come along, and we expect others to come along as the year progresses," he told members at the AGM yesterday. "It's... possible too that the developed market economies equities - US and Europe - might also be worth ...