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Female board participation rises: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
... go with women holding chair roles, new research shows. The latest data from the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) revealed women now make up 33.6% (as at 31 May 2021) of board roles in the ASX 200, up around 3% from 2020. In the first ...

The real cost of a bad chief executive: AICD, ACSI

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
... from the top can permeate an entire organisation. The report, produced by the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), surveyed directors at Australia's largest companies to develop ...

Nasdaq proposes diversity rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... "Australian firms are on the right track; the latest board diversity statistics by the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) show the percentages of female directors is 26% and 32.1% for the ASX All Ords and the ASX200, respectively." Zhong ...

ASX 200 hits female director target

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... original target. The ASX 200 has now achieved 30% female representation on boards. It comes more than four years after the AICD challenged Australia's biggest public companies to meet the target by the end of 2018. AICD chief Angus Armour said that although ...

Chief economist update: Businesses remain unmoved by low rates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
... The NAB survey is consistent with the bi-annual survey of 1489 members of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) - released in late October - which found that around 59% of directors anticipate weak domestic economic conditions over the ...

Chief economist update: Beam us up Scotty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... hardly surprising and is consistent with the new survey of 1489 members of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) which found that around 59% of directors anticipate weak domestic economic conditions over the next 12 months, compared with ...

Australia ahead in gender diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
... latter is just shy of the 30% target set by Australia's 30% Club in May 2015. Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) board diversity manager Rhian Richardson says it's "an amazing achievement." "Although it's not 30%, it's almost 30% and we ...

Super fund chair appointed to NSW Generations Fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... chief economist for more than a decade. Most recently, he was a chief economist at Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). The NSW government's creation of a chief economist role comes at the heels of its May 14 creation of a productivity ...

"Collegiality" hinders appointments of female executives

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... 2018. At the end of February, women accounted for 26.7% of ASX 200 directorships, according to Australian Company Directors (AICD)'s quarterly gender diversity report. Yet, five ASX 200 companies had no female directors and only 74 had reached or crossed ...

More female clients requires more female advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... International Women's Day, where 14 ASX200 companies were yet to appoint a woman, just five companies remain with all-male boards. AICD chairman Elizabeth Proust said the news is encouraging though only reflects the first two months of the year. "We'll ...