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AustralianSuper overhauls SRI mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... AustralianSuper's Sustainable Balanced and Australian Sustainable Shares options will be managed using environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues when selecting stocks. Previously, the strategy was managed using an exclusion approach whereby stocks ...

US firm launches religious ETFs

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... were developed with FTSE Group and KLD Research and Analytics, which provide information on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in investments. The investment products exclude companies that benefit from gambling, alcohol, tobacco, pornography ...

Room for Russia in BRIC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... is that its market is incredibly volatile. Shareprices correlate to the oil prices, there's problem with corporate governance and the government itself tends to get involved in a way that can be unhelpful to stockmarkets." But over the medium term, Edwards ...

Super funds back trustee pay disclosure

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... companies do, following the release of the Cooper report that asked whether super funds should adopt the same corporate governance rules as listed companies. This week the Panel behind the Cooper Review noted that it favours the proposal that the governance ...

ACSI voting service attracts five members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... international guidelines would be sent to members shortly and the voting process will start 1 January. Independent governance analysis and proxy voting services firm, Glass, Lewis & Co, is providing the proxy voting service to ACSI. The Global Proxy ...

CalSTRS adopts engagement code

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... designed to show best practice when meeting and engaging with invested companies. Anne Sheehan, director of corporate governance at CalSTRS, said the universal standard for good corporate governance includes transparency, disclosure of activities and ...

Boardrooms lack female directors: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... credit unions. Two months ago, the group made a submission to the government asking for changes to the ASX Corporate Governance rules, including a policy to factor gender diversity in director recruitment guidelines. The renewed campaign follows WOB ...

Women in Super to grant $10,000 scholarship

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... Third AIST Global Dialogue in Hong Kong next year. The conference will be held from 30 May to 4 June 2010 covering governance issues and retirement income policies and development in the Asian region. The scholarship will cover registration, accommodation ...

Trustees snub Asian equities

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... academic who conducted the research, said he was surprised that the allocation to the region is so low. He said that poor governance, real or perceived, in Asian markets has deterred trustees from ploughing more into Asian equities. He said it could ...

ComSuper faces executive and admin reforms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
Government superannuation schemes have not escaped ongoing governance reviews, with the schemes' administrator ComSuper mandated to outsource some of its work to cut taxpayer bill and the 'Commissioner for Superannuation' role dropped in favour of a ...