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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 ...

Instos lobby for Main Street

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... speakers who proposed what the government should and shouldn't do. Ira Millstein, senior associate dean for corporate governance at Yale and for many years corporate counsel to top US companies, commented that Dodd's corporate governance provisions were ...

Open letter to trusted trustees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... are insourced as part of a super fund's core, not peripheral, activity." It is this mainstream approach of corporate governance, well ingrained in the culture of all super funds, that will do members more good, he said.

Treasury proposes mandatory governance principles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
Treasury is examining whether the ASX's corporate governance principles should extend to all 500 companies in the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Index instead of the top 300 companies as part of a broader review of the audit industry. The Commonwealth Treasury's ...

MSCI buys RiskMetrics

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
MSCI has bought risk management and corporate governance researcher, RiskMetrics, in a cash and stock transaction worth more than A$1.7 billion, but a RiskMetrics spokesperson said it's business as usual in Australia. The index provider bought RiskMetrics ...

Aviva Investors and Cbus win awards

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... Stewardship Awards. The awards recognise achievement in product innovation, service, investment philosophy, corporate governance and risk management practices. Applicants must be private sector investment managers with an FS licence and have at least ...

Vanguard outlines responsible investment stance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... Regnan, which primarily engages with locally listed firm to enhance long-term shareholder value by improving corporate governance within the listed firm. Watt said Vanguard's stance on the UN PRI, to her knowledge, has not negatively affected the local ...

Sign Say on Pay: CalPERS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... companies "to enact the shareholder advisory vote on executive compensation (or Say on Pay), a timely and needed corporate governance reform." The letter will be sent to JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bancorp ...

Boutique incubators target retail market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... chief executive at Ascalon Capital Managers, said the firm is also adding to its distribution, compliance and corporate governance teams. The boutique incubator's stable includes Alleron Investment Management, Continuum Capital Management, First Samuel ...