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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 ...

NAB buys Lodestar Capital stake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... range of services to the boutique such as back office support and product and distribution services including corporate governance functions. This deal represents the sixth purchase by nabinvest, which was setup in October 2007. Other boutique managers ...

Companies get proactive on corp governance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
... executive remuneration are prompting listed company chairmen to become more proactive in explaining their corporate governance policies. John Murray, managing director at Perennial Value Management, said companies the fund manager invests with are being ...

Veritate $1m payment not linked to Sunsuper investment

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... assured Trinity shareholders and investors that dealings of this nature will not occur again and that their corporate governance and business practices are being extensively reviewed.