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Instos move on Treasury stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... have each bought more than one million ordinary shares in Treasury Group, which means both groups hold a five per cent voting share in the boutique incubator. Both groups bought more than 1.1 million of ordinary shares in Treasury Group on 8 November ...

Sell dollars to buy stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... waited two and a half to three years before we started our tightening campaign." But also note that Bullard is 'not' a voting member of the FOMC. Thud! Thud! Thud!

Trustee board shake-up overdue

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... executive remuneration, should also start behaving the way public company boards work, where many decisions pass through a voting system and executive pay is fully disclosed on annual reports. "In our government submission, we don't advocate the corporate ...

Equipsuper looks for member directors

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
... $4.2 billion Equipsuper is looking for member directors to join its board. Equipsuper is requesting fund members to start voting for prospective member directors as election now opens. According to an online statement of the fund, the terms of office ...

SWFs no longer at arm's length

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
... involvement in corporate governance issues - a complete departure from the previous policy to forego board representations and voting rights for fear of a political backlash. For example, SWFs chose to be exempted from their voting rights when they started ...

AMP Capital Investors block poor corp governance

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... incentive schemes, re-election of poor performing board directors and poorly-structured fund raising. AMP Capital's proxy voting report in the half year to June 30 helps illustrate how a fund manager can help empower the investors they represent by voting ...

UK pension and fundies to drive long-termism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... several UK banks appear to have had little impact in restraining management before the recent crisis phase...levels of voting against bank resolutions rarely exceeded 10 per cent," the Review said. Among the recommendations were that the UK regulator ...

ANZ Staff Super reappoints directors

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... account manager with ING Australia. Both McKinstray and King will serve a four year term as member representative directors. Voting in the election for the two member representative directors closed on Friday, 26 June.

Shareholder activism misses the mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... behaviour change in board rooms, vote out a couple of chairs and you're going to get everyone's attention," she said. "Voting out directors will get a lot of column inches in the press but it won't change the behaviours in the boardroom. But how do you ...

Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2009

... of marketing professionals in financial services. The award finalists were selected following a nomination phase and a voting phase. All bona fide nominations were reviewed by Rainmaker, with the most popular proceeding to the voting or judging phase. ...