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  • Keeping the engine room clean

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2013

    In her final column, Belinda Gibson outlines what ASIC is doing to uphold Australia’s market integrity. It has been my privilege to contribute to this magazine for over five years, but this will be the last, as my term as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) deputy ch...

  • The value of a culture of compliance

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2013

    Professor Bob Baxt reviews some recent court cases that highlight the importance of ensuring your companies have a proper culture of compliance in place. Directors, senior managers and officers of companies in Australia (referred to as directors here) are, of course, very familiar with spec...

  • Indian company law gets a revamp

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Mar 2013

    Praveen Gupta outlines some of the proposed reforms to corporate law that could change the way companies operate in India. Back in the 1950s, as a young republic, India chose to tread the socialistic path. Not surprisingly, the nationalisation of the following ensued: airline industry (1...

  • The Pike River Report – lessons for Australia

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Mar 2013

    Michael Tooma outlines the lessons Australian directors can learn from New Zealand’s Pike River Mine disaster that killed 29 miners in November 2010. At one level, the New Zealand report, Royal Commission on the Pike River Coal Mine Tragedy, reads like so many reports before it – another ...

  • The benefits of youth

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Mar 2013

    Domini Stuart finds out how four of Australia’s younger directors got their start in the boardroom and the lessons they’ve learnt since then. In the old days, Australian boards could be described as "pale, male and stale", consisting almost entirely of men over 60 with sufficient grey hai...

  • Managing mining’s many risks

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Nov 2012

    Tony Featherstone examines the many hurdles faced by mining boards and provides some tips on how directors can overcome them. Spare a thought for Australia’s resource sector. It faces a perfect storm of falling commodity prices, rising costs, new federal and state government taxes and roy...

  • 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 (...

  • NFP reform concerns

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Sep 2012

    In a recent address, Mission Australia chairman Ewen Crouch outlined his concerns about proposed NFP reforms. An edited extract of his speech follows. The Government has released an exposure draft of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Bill 2012, which will establish ...

  • Centro: a year on

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Aug 2012

    As directors sit down to review their companies’ accounts this month, Domini Stuart examines how the Centro case may have changed boardroom behaviour. Just over a year ago, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) hailed the Federal Court’s verdict against eight directo...

  • WikiLeaks: What can boards learn?

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Mar 2012

    Jacinta Cubis and Holly Lindsay argue that WikiLeaks holds valuable lessons for boards when it comes to whistleblowing. WikiLeaks first caught the world’s attention in April 2010 with the release of a leaked video filmed by US troops in Iraq. The video showed US combat forces targeting a...