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Stakeholders assess ESG policy priorities for Parliament

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... strategies in putting those priorities to policymakers. The Governance Institute has prioritised reforms to the Corporations Act for their engagement activities with the next government. Among their list of reforms, the Governance Institute has recommend ...

ACSI, TIAA-CREF engage on "show of hands" AGM voting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... are doing it." Davidson said that longer term, poll voting should be a mandatory requirement enshrined in the Corporations Act, and that ACSI would continue to engage with regulators and legislators on this issue. Davidson pointed to the interest and ...

ACCR considers appeal in Commonwealth Bank case

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... opinion to the AGM, consistent with a 1986 decision in National Roads & Motorists' Association v Parker. "The Corporations Act itself says that once you get support of over 100 shareholders or 5% of total owners, shareholders can put ordinary resolutions ...

Governance Institute of Australia questions shareholder primacy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... profit-maximisation runs into community interests. Among the proposals in the paper is the option of amending Australia's Corporations Act to expand directors' duties and adopt principles similar to S172 of the UK Companies Act, which charges directors ...

Corporate governance: moving to "owner relations" model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... that we have multiple check-ins for the year, to talk about what's on our agenda, what's on their agenda. The Corporations Act has given rights as an investor - you have the right to vote on a director, you have the right to vote on a remuneration report ...

ACSI: CEO pay, termination pay drop for FY13

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... totalling just under $12 million in 2013, ACSI said. Gordon Hagart, ACSI chief executive, cited 2009 reforms to the Corporations Act limiting the size of termination payments that could be made to senior executives without shareholder approval, when ...

ASIC guide widens scope of risk, future prospect disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... operating and financial review (OFR) as part of directors' annual reports. RG2 47 is based on a section of the Corporations Act - Section 299A subsection 1 subsection c, explained Dr Ulysses Chioatto, executive director and head of research Australia ...

Interest spurs new developments in social enterprise funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... shared between the investors and the government. Community bonds fall would have to adhere to the standards in the Corporations Act, which regulates how organisations issue bonds. "These things would all require disclosure under the Corporations Act ...

Integrated Reporting framework launched

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... regime. I think we need, however, to go back and look at our existing safe harbour provisions under sec 180 of the Corporations Act and see whether those statutory rules need some level of reform updating the changing nature of shareholder, stakeholder ...

City of Melbourne looks to commercial solar installation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... the fact that the owners' corporation doesn't own the building. It's similar to an EUA, and we used the Owners Corporations Act 2006 to get certain resolutions that enabled us to do a financing agreement."