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Women make up 30 pc of trustees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
Days after Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young called for 40 per cent of board directors of Australia's Top 200 ASX listed companies to be women, research by Rainmaker released today on International Women's Day confirmed that not even not-for-profit ...

New board directors for HESTA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
Australia's biggest industry super fund for health and community services has appointed three new directors to its board. HESTA Super Fund's new appointees are Maree O'Halloran, a lawyer and director of NSW's Welfare Rights Centre; Prue Power, executive ...

AdminPARTNERS to target midsized funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
... using the web-based system to manage member reporting and account records. But John Donovan, one of the four new board directors who joined AdminPARTNERS after the acquisition, said there's a potential to increase that client base simply by tailoring ...

Shareholders remove van Eyk Three Pillars board

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... approved at the EGM this morning. Second, it also recommended that VTP remove the onerous requirements to propose new board directors and, third, that the new board (if the proposal is approved) will undertake a strategic review of the business - including ...

Dixon and van Eyk stand-off

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... capital over the next 12 months. Second, it also recommended that VTP remove the onerous requirements to propose new board directors and, third, that the new board (if the proposal is approved) will undertake a strategic review of the business - including ...

AMP Capital Investors block poor corp governance

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... against poor governance - including saying no to unjustified 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 ...

Governance indices create illusions: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... the weakness in governance indices is their reliance on the uni-dimensional factors such as the proportion of board directors who are independent, how concentrated is the management structure, and type of executive remuneration. "The academic literature ...

FPA reviews award categories

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
... is now considered an honorary award not a membership category. Nominations, which can only be received by FPA board directors, may include FPA members and non members. The honorary member category, which was previously unused, has been withdrawn. Nominations ...

Share option pay deals for US directors reducing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
A survey of US board directors' pay levels by Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has found there is a significant downward trend in directors' long-term compensation packages structured through stock options in favour of deferred stock awards. ...

Dieters to chair FPA for another year

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006
... of chief executive officer, Jo-Anne Bloch, and a fairly new board. In an FPA member ballot four voting member board directors were also elected, being Louise Biti CFPA(R), David Haintz CFPA(R), Julie Matheson CFPA(R) and Mark Spiers CFPA(R). They begin ...