Conflicts of interest Results

• Trading shares

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Oct 2006

  Directors need to be aware that their share buying and selling activities may arouse suspicions of insider trading. But as Domini Stuart found, directors of growing companies often find themselves with few ‘windows of opportunity’ to either buy or sell shares. Buying your way into trouble T...

• Spoken Word

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Oct 2006

  As the responsibilities of company directors come under increased scrutiny, Middletons’ partner Adam Levine says ‘grey directors’ need to ensure all the checks and balances are in place if they are involved with the operations of a traditional special purpose vehicle. Grey directors need to ser...

• Executive directors

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Aug 2006

  There is continuing debate over the wisdom of appointing executives to the board – Helen McCombie outlines some advantages and disadvantages of having members of a company’s management team as part of the board. Be prepared if management comes on board Most corporate regulation in recent ye...

• Conflicts of interest

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Jul 2006

  Potential conflicts of interest are bound to occur in the professional lives of many directors. As Helen McCombie points out, there are both legal and ethical issues to consider when managing these situations. Interesting legal and ethical conflicts for directors “If everybody with a perceived...

• Law Reporter

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 May 2006

  Professor Bob Baxt provides an overview of recent court decisions affecting the role and responsibility of directors. Many of the matters examined in the Law Reporter are discussed in greater detail in The Baxt Report published by Thomson Publishing. Directors in conflic...

• Your say

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 May 2006

  Letters to the editor Your March magazine noted the paper released by the Business Coalition for Tax Reform (BCTR) titled Personal Income Tax Reform. I reviewed both the paper and the BCTR’s web site and was disappointed at the narrowness of vision presented, particularly as the BCTR claims to so b...

• Demystifying the risks and rewards Management Buyouts

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Feb 2005

  Directors are increasingly faced with the opportunity and risks of participating within, or approving, MBOs. Jeremy A. Samuel and Nicholas Humphrey provide a general overview of management buyouts particularly from a director’s perspective Demystifying the risks and rewards Directors are increasing...

• Multiple Directorships

  Content Type: Policy Submission

  06 Jan 2005

  Much of the media discussion of multiple directorships has been based on the assumption that the issue is widespread and the consequences are invariably undesirable. I would like to suggest an alternative view. Recent Australian research shows that only three out of every 100 directors hold three or...

• CLERP 9 Parliamentary Joint Committee Public Hearing

  Content Type: Policy Submission

  18 Mar 2004

  1. CLERP (Audit Reform & Corporate Disclosure) Bill 2003 (17/11/2003) CLERP (Audit Reform & Corporate Disclosure) Bill 2003 Submission to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services 2. CLER...

• General Protocol for Company Directors

  Content Type: Position Paper

  31 Jan 2002

  This protocol, in general terms, outlines the principal legal duties (obligations) of company directors. AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF COMPANY DIRECTORS GENERAL PROTOCOL FOR COMPANY DIRECTORSThis protocol, in general terms, outlines the principal legal duties (obligations) of company directors.It does not...