Capital Raising Results

• Crowd funding – easy capital or legal nightmare?

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Oct 2012

  Reece Walker examines whether crowd funding is a viable source of capital or plagued by too many issues to make it worthwhile. Crowd funding has come a long way from its origins of backing struggling rock bands. It has proven a highly successful vehicle to raise funds for disaster relief,...

• In search of equity

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Oct 2012

  Tony Featherstone reports on a new tool, available later this year, that will bring more transparency and fairness to equity capital raisings. A new tool from the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) will help the boards of listed companies better meet their corporate governance obligatio...

• Capital raisings for small to mid-cap companies

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Oct 2012

  John Price explains how new capital raising rules for small to mid-cap listed companies will work and the issues their directors should consider. Share placements have been a popular way of raising funds in recent years, particularly for smaller companies. Australian Securities Exchange (...

• Fail to prepare, prepare to fail

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Sep 2012

  Selling a business is tough work and market conditions are making it tougher. Paul Sweeney and Jamie Irving provide some tips on how owners can prepare their businesses for sale in volatile times. Business owners often want to wait for the ideal time to sell their business, but generation...

• Testing times ahead for junior mining directors

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Sep 2012

  Tony Featherstone warns that over the next 12-18 months, the directors of some junior miners could find themselves severely tested as they look to raise capital at a time when resource stocks may be out of favour and commodity prices are falling. Australia’s resource sector has had a forg...

• Small explorers need a governance boost

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Feb 2012

  Tony Featherstone believes directors of small explorers in search of capital face a difficult year ahead and should lift their governance game.  Boards of small mining companies must be on their game in 2012. Higher market, commodity and regulatory risks could threaten cash-strapped explo...

• Feature The pros and cons of leasing

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Sep 2010

  Janine Mace examines the leasing versus purchasing issues directors should consider in the current market where access to finance remains tight. The pros and cons of leasing In an environment where competition is tough and credit difficult to ...

• Submission to ASIC on consultation paper 128 Handling Confidential Information

  Content Type: Policy Submission

  26 Feb 2010

  This consultation paper contains ASIC’s proposals for best practice relating to the handling of confidential information, primarily in the context of capital raisings and mergers and acquisitions. Whilst AICD supports the focus of the Paper, we are concerned that some of the proposals may not be pro...

• Submission on consultation paper 105 Facilitating equity capital raising

  Content Type: Policy Submission

  27 Mar 2009

  This submission to Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) provides some comment on consultation paper 105: facilitating equity capital raising. With one exception AICD is supportive of the direction of ASIC's propsed reforms. AICD does not support removing the ten percent discou...

• The Language of Directorship Glossary

  Content Type: General

  Like any endeavour, there are a raft of terms that relate to directorship and governance. The Language of Directorship - a 55 page glossary - covers hundreds of terms from A-Z that you may find helpful in your day-to-day work as a director. This publication is a companion to the Comp...

• Strictly Mining Boardroom

  Content Type: General

  Strictly (Mining) Boardroom is a mix of boardroom practice, resource sector management and investment observations and discussion, written in Allan Trench's trademark dry, humorous style. Many of the subject themes covered in this book end in a series of questions for readers to think about, to ...

• Curbing excessive short termism thought leadership paper

  Content Type: General

  A guide for boards of public companies This new thought leadership paper from Louise Pocock, senior policy advisor with Company Directors, examines the vexing issue of "short-termism" and the impact it has on corporations. Pocock also offers several potential solutions for Australian boards wis...

• Capital Raising

  Content Type: General

  The Capital Raising course is a 1 day course for owner directors and boards of small to medium sized organisations and is designed to demystify the process for the board in raising business capital through practical examples and relevant tools. By analysing case studies, detailed checklists, valuati...