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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2010
Belinda Gibson
provides some tips and pointers to help companies as they prepare for the AGM season.
Improving practices for company AGMs
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) season for companies with a 30 June year-end is due to begin shortly.
AGMs provide directors...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Oct 2009
Beefing up communications
With the annual general meeting season fast approaching, companies needed to put some meat into their communications, but hold back on adding too many dressings or layers to their executive remuneration policies.
This was the view of Erik Mather MAICD, managing director of...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2009
Paul Branston
reviews two recent court decisions that provide guidance on issues that can be central to a boardroom battle – the power to adjourn a general meeting and access to proxies received by the company.
Boardroom stoushes and the law
Key points
A chairman of a meeting must exerc...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2009
Directors will be in the hot seat as shareholders turn up the scrutiny dial in the coming AGM season.
Tony Featherstone
reports on where the expected hot spots are likely to be.
In the hot seat
Surviving AGM 2009
Expect more heat this year
Investigate shareholder conc...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2009
Boards are likely to face intense scrutiny from shareholders during the upcoming AGM season.
Jennifer Stafford
discusses what’s in store for directors and how they can be better prepared.
Preparing for the AGM
How to survive the AGM season
Expect more scrutiny
Prepare well i...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2008
Proxy votes sometimes get lost as they travel through a complex chain of ownership and different service providers.
Stuart Crosby
believes better collaboration and connectivity between intermediaries could solve the problem.
Making every vote count
If, as is sometimes claimed, mi...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Oct 2008
Dean Paatsch
argues that millions of Australian shareholders are unwittingly gambling with their ownership rights when they vote by proxy.
Betting by proxy
When Aristocrat’s major shareholder Paul Ainsworth voted by proxy against proposed takeover provisions at this year’s AGM, he couldn...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2008
Love them or hate them, it seems AGMs are here to stay.
Nichola Clark
provides some tips on how to get the most out of them.
‘Tis the season
Like Christmas, it comes but once a year. It involves a huge amount of preparation. There can be a few surprises. Some love it. ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2007
What to make of a negative non-binding vote?
What are we to make of the large negative advisory votes on remuneration at several major company Annual General Meetings (AGMs) in the last quarter of 2007? They were the key focus of press headlines on governance matters late in the year.
Readers will...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2007
David Gonski believes that directors and shareholders have been drifting apart, but he has some suggestions on how they can reconnect again.
Zilla Efrat
reports.
Reconnecting with shareholders
Directors needed to reveal more of their “humanity” in order to better engage shareholde...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2007
With the AGM season in full thrust, Anne Lampe searches for ways to stop a meeting from running off the rails.
How to avoid AGM chaos
It’s hardly surprising that annual general meetings can easily develop into a free-for-all on any number of concerns, including excessive executive remunerat...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 May 2006
Elspeth Arnold, Elizabeth Johnstone and Lisa d’Oliveyra from Blake Dawson Waldron attended more than 60 listed company AGMs to analyse the impact of the CLERP 9 reforms. The results of the survey are set out below.
Report card for CLERP 9
The companies surveyed included 45 S&P/ASX 100 c...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2006
Playing with a straight bat on remuneration
You have an obligation as a director to report to your shareholders on the remuneration practices and policies of your listed company in the remuneration report. Investors, as well as the market in general, have a genuine interest in the remuneratio...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Oct 2005
A shareholder-friendly financial report
More Australians are share owners than ever before, according to the 2004 ASX Share Ownership Study which showed that 55 percent of adult Australians (8 million people) now include shares in their investment portfolio, up from 51 percent last year (7.4 ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Oct 2005
The members’ voice
An outline of some of the issues addressed by AICD’s policy department, committees and taskforces over the past month follows:
Shareholder Friendly Reporting
The AICD/PricewaterhouseCoopers Shareholder Friendly Report was launched in September 2005. In November 2004 the AICD...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2005
Managing shareholder activism "requires directors to recognise the company stakeholders, communicate with them effectively and communicate with the company as a whole", says Michael Parshall, a partner at law firm, Clayton Utz. Appeasing everyone - satisfying no one?
By Ali Cromie*
Managing shar...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 May 2005
Some of the issues addressed by AICD’s policy department, committees and taskforces over the past month
The members' voice
Some of the issues addressed by AICD's policy department, committees and taskforces over the past month
ASA Exposure Draft - 'Shareholders' Expectations'...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2005
Two decisions, one in the Federal Court of Australia and the other in the New South Wales Supreme Court have seen very different results for the complaining shareholder. Contrasting decisions in favour of shareholders
Should company directors be overly concerned?
Two decisions, one in the Fed...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2004
As my friends and acquaintances are aware, I am partially deaf. I was diagnosed with nerve deafness in the mid-1970s after my parents took me to an audiologist to learn that my hearing was impaired in my left ear. Coping with childish phobias
As my friends and acquaintances are aware, I am partiall...