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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.

SWFs no longer at arm's length

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
... of the financial crisis for SWFs. Among his predictions was that SWFs will have a greater involvement in corporate governance issues - a complete departure from the previous policy to forego board representations and voting rights for fear of a political ...

Dixon and van Eyk stand-off

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... chair) and executive directors Cameron McCullagh and van Eyk chief executive Mark Thomas. "It is just not good corporate governance for the whole Board to comprise executives of a financial planning firm and for there to be no independent directors - ...

CBA chair John Schubert retires

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... carefully undertaken by the board over a period of several years and my resignation accords with the board's corporate governance guidelines which nominate five years as the preferred term for the chairman," he said. Turner has been an independent non-executive ...

VicSuper wins ACCA sustainability award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... relationship between the organisation, the environment and social issues such employment, business ethics and corporate governance. The judges' report also outlines seven key recommendations on: issues disclosure, policy disclosure, supply chain, assurance ...

UK pension and fundies to drive long-termism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... focus on long-term shareholder value, according to the Walker Review. The review, an independent audit of corporate governance of UK banks and other financial institutions, has made 39 recommendations to the government. The draft recommendations, which ...

IAG & NRMA fund rejigs insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... re-appointed CommInsure as its insurer, repriced its insurance premiums and is boosting social, environmental and corporate governance strategies following its signing of the UN PRI. The plan, which had $805 million in funds under management in March ...