The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is taking subsidiaries of pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Novartis to court over misleading marketing of the Voltaren Osteo Gel and Voltaren Emulgel pain relieving gels.
It is alleged that both firms claimed …
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Australia’s Financial Services Council (FSC) which represents the country’s fund management and pensions industry has launched an Internal Governance and Asset Stewardship Standard for investment managers and asset owners.
This is the first stewardship code introduced in Australia and the …
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Most of the largest Australian superannuation (super) pension funds are adopting some form of responsible investment according to a survey by the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA).
The RIAA said its Superfund Responsible Investment Benchmarking Report involved a detailed …
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Shareholders of Australian companies are showing their muscle in this year’s proxy season with significant opposition votes over the governance of retailer Harvey Norman and a rejection of executive pay at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
The Australian Shareholders …
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Australian entertainments group, Ardent Leisure, held its AGM just two days after an accident at its theme park Dreamworld in which four people died and two children were injured on a river rapids ride. The out-going chairman, Neil Banaves, …
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Mortgage Choice (ASX:MOC) chairman, Peter Ritchie, has resigned abruptly, raging at proxy advisors for “damaging Australian business” after another bruising shareholder revolt at last week’s AGM.
Close to 80% of the Australian firm’s independent shareholders voted against the …
Read MoreCG Watch 2016, a survey of 12 major Asia-Pacific markets and 1,027 Asian companies has ranked Singapore as Asia’s top corporate governance (CG) performer followed by Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Korea, China, Philippines and Indonesia.
The …
Read MoreWith the peak AGM season taking place in the next two months, Manifest’s analysis suggests investors may be concerned about the remuneration practices at some of the UK’s biggest companies holding their AGMs on 14th April.
Mining company, Rio Tinto …
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