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Governance eclipses social and environmental concerns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... to stakeholder concern, a report by AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has shown. The report showed that stakeholders with voting rights are overwhelmingly concerned with governance (G), with the social (S) and environmental (E) factors of ESG accounting ...

Voting opens for the 2014 MAX Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
Voting is now open for the MAX Awards, which are the refreshed and rebranded Rainmaker Sales and Marketing Excellence Awards. This year, as part of the rebrand, there are new categories including Best Social Media Campaign, Best Integrated Campaign ...

LUCRF divests $5 million of cluster munition and tobacco

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... Hutchinson-Drake argued that "investors of equities are, in essence, owners of the companies, company management can be influenced by voting for or against particular issues at shareholder meetings." But the fund believes that "engagement efforts would ...

Standard Life Inv steps up shareholder activism

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... Life Investments has been influential in achieving change, for example RSA Insurance Group and Lazard. It also highlights voting at a number of AGMs including Glencore and Persimmon.

Instos bring ESG perspective to ASX companies

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... helping institutional investors and listed companies better engage on governance issues such as disclosure, remuneration, voting and environmental, social and governance factors (ESG). Easterbrook said that institutional investors should use their growing ...

Standard Life Investments strengthens governance guidelines

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013

AUI investors approve property fund merger

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... than eight years," AUI Real Estate general manager Mark Pratt said. Investors supported the proposal, with 83.64% of those voting supporting the merger. The Office Property Fund is open to new investment and it can raise capital and acquire or dispose ...

LGS carbon screening possible, but not imminent

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... screening position on fossil fuels, preferring other methods such as fund manager engagement, a best-of-sector approach, share voting and carbon hedging. It was announced today that the fund ranked second globally for its sustainable investment practices ...

CFSGAM commits to published stewardship principles

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
... to managing conflicts of interest, monitoring and engaging with senior management of companies, intelligently executing voting rights, collaborating with other investors and how the stewardship activities will be disclosed, assured and reported. The ...

SelectingSuper award nominees announced

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... award are research based. He said this year awards also include a new honor for the favourite super fund based on member voting. "Voting is still open and we encourage funds to get their members involved whle there's still time." The SelectingSuper awards ...