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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CFS and Brookfield scoop property awards

PIR RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... presented at PIR's Annual Funds Industry Forum in Queensland where the finalists were judged based on their corporate governance, information transparency, and product structure (including leverage). PIR also looked at the finalists' asset quality and ...

Financial Standard finalist in ACSI Media Award

... Australian Council of Super Investors (ACSI) Media Award, an award that recognises outstanding work on reporting corporate governance issues. Hobbs' submission, "Cents and Sustainability" (Issue 3, March 2), looked at how widespread poor governance practices ...

Future Fund guardian joins Coffey International

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
... International, Mulcahy's appointment was foreshadowed at the firm's annual general meeting last year to boost Coffey's corporate governance profile. As part of this plan the company also announced the resignation of executive director Glen Simpson who ...