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Net tightens on executive pay

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... a consultation package encouraging financial services firms to set up stricter guidelines when deciding executive remuneration. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is recommending its regulated institutions - including banks, insurance and ...

Perpetual proposes caps on exec and board pay

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... dividend re-investment plan, those within the financial services industry would be interested in the proposed executive remuneration policies, which are loosely aligned with what governance experts have been lobbying for. In the letter, Savage said that ...

ESG a fiduciary duty: Sherry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... Sherry said it's also crucial to not forget the G in ESG, especially when trustees consider how a company's executive remuneration principles may impact their fund members' long term best interests. Concern over executive remuneration and golden handshakes ...

APRA not interested in exec pay levels

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... said the issue of remuneration has heated up because investors and shareholders have become concerned that executive remuneration arrangements have contributed to risk-taking, thus helping to undermine the quality of corporate decisions and strategy. ...

Pay to perform

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
The Federal Government is granting super funds and fund managers more powers to reject or approve executive remuneration schemes, marking the end of an era blotted by outrageous 'golden handshakes' and excessive bonuses. Under legislative reforms announced ...

Governance indices create illusions: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... proportion of board directors who are independent, how concentrated is the management structure, and type of executive remuneration. "The academic literature that introduced indices has not satisfactorily established that there is a causal relation between ...

Seize the pay

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... released a paper outlining how senior executives should be paid. In the paper, Regnan said that traditional executive remuneration in Australia encourage executives to meet short-term goals with immediate pay-offs at the cost of the company's long-term ...

APRA outlines priorities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... focused on authorised deposit taking institutions (ADIs) liquidity risk, prudent capital management and executive remuneration this year. Speaking at the Australian British Chamber of Commerce in Sydney, APRA chair John Laker, said APRA intends to complete ...

APRA to review exec pay

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... about to discover the political price they will be expected to pay with APRA announcing details of its executive remuneration monitoring program. The irony however is that despite widespread public and government concerns that executive remuneration ...

AIG gets another A$57 billion bail-out

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... package established by Congress in October. As part of the latest deal, AIG has agreed to follow stringent executive remuneration and corporate governance conditions, according to a statement issued by the US Treasury.