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Schroders board shake-up

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
... investment officer will stand down after seven years. Chair Michael Miles will leave after the company's Annual General Meeting (AGM) in May to be replaced by senior independent director Andrew Beeson. Alan Brown will also resign as chief investment ...

Triple engagement but 17 firms get first strike

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
In the first AGM season since its introduction, 17 companies have received their first strike under the two-strike rule but a new AMP report finds that company engagement has tripled. Last year the controversial two-strikes rule was introduced on July ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... at $26.12. Making news, Qantas Airways Ltd and Cougar Energy Ltd hold their annual general meetings on Friday. The Qantas AGM is expected to be fiery with the airline embroiled in industrial disquiet on several fronts. The airline says the industrial ...

Exec pay in Australia too high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
Executive compensation in Australian listed companies is out of step and needs to be brought back into alignment with investor interests, said Schroders deputy head of Australian equities in a briefing note. Andrew Fleming, said "Executive compensation ...

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.