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Govt response to exec remuneration falls short: Regnan

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
A specialist corporate governance firm is frustrated the government has not backed a proposal from the Productivity Commission's executive remuneration report that could better align departing executives interests with long-term shareholders. The Productivity ...

NabInvest buys Canadian property boutique

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... includes back office support and assistance with product and distribution services along with custody and corporate governance functions. The nabInvest business partners are Cambridge Industrial Trust Management, Lodestar Capital Partners, Fairview Equity ...

More super funds to introduce performance pay: survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... excludes the remuneration of super fund trustees. McGuirk said that they are looking to release that in a separate governance and remuneration report out around June this year. McGuirk has been running the annual remuneration report for six years. In ...

Acadian counts corp governance risk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... Boston-based Acadian Asset Management has added another quantitative measure to its investment process to gauge corporate governance risk within listed companies. The 'management behaviour' measurement allows the team to evaluate the quality of a company's ...

UK pensions call for greater FM engagement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... local and international fund managers should publicise how they monitor companies they invest in to improve corporate governance in listed firms. "While we continuously make it clear the crisis was a systemic failure and that all elements of the system ...

CFS GAM appoints ASSET4

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
... Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) has appointed ASSET4 as an additional environment, social and governance (ESG) research provider. ASSET4, which was bought by Thomson Reuters in November last year, has developed the world's largest ...

IFSA blasts latest APRA league tables

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... group ASFA is in contrast more measured. "ASFA fully supports the measuring of the overall performance of super funds. Governance, management of operational risk, sustainability of the business and efficiency are all part of the equation in providing ...

Instos lobby for Main Street

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
US institutional investors and experts have banded together to offer lawmakers a list of "do's and don'ts" in governance reforms as the Senate Banking Committee mulls over a bill by chairman Christopher Dodd to plug regulatory gaps exposed by the GFC. ...

ING focuses on executive governance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
Following public outrage against big financial institutions acting irresponsibly, Europe-based ING Group's top 200 managers have signed a company memorandum that binds them to act with integrity at all times. Signatories to the principle's vow to act ...

Open letter to trusted trustees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... who are robbing investors blind through capital raisings and deals that ultimately destroy shareholder value, said a governance expert. Dean Paatsch, director at RiskMetrics, gave a candid and, at times, very confronting speech at the CMSF this week ...