29 January 2025

ESG is dead, long live ESG!

Giles Rafferty
All, Best Practice, ESG, IR

GILES RAFFERTY, Media and Financial PR As Trump 2.0 begins to coalesce, are the requirements for Companies to report on greenhouse gas emissions going up in smoke? A quick review of headlines such as: ‘Coalition vows to scrap emissions reporting as Trump prepares rollback’ – AFR, 2 January 2025, ‘Investor climate group suspends activities after […]

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28 November 2024

2024 a year of predictable unpredictability

Giles Rafferty
Activism, AGM, All, Analytics, compliance, Cybersecurity, ESG, Perception Study

GILES RAFFERTY, Media and Financial PR Whether it is ongoing climate change, Donald Trump having another tilt at the US presidency or the emergence of AI, these are all events that have been predicted. How they played out and what impacts they will have are very much subject to unpredictability. The recently published CSIRO/Bureau of […]

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31 October 2024

XCEND, a new force in Australian small to mid-cap registry services

Giles Rafferty
All, compliance, Registries

Author: BLAKE STELZER, Managing Director and CEO, XCEND As XCEND, the new kid on the registry services block, prepares to welcome its 100th register we talk to Founder, Blake Stelzer, about what sets XCEND apart.  Can you give me a little background on XCEND and the journey to founding the company? Certainly, my co-founder (Ann […]

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27 September 2024

A climate of change, voting at AGMs

Giles Rafferty
Activism; ESG, AGM, All, Disclosure, shareholder

GILES RAFFERTY, Media and Financial PR As we enter the October to November AGM season it is helpful to do a temperature check with the Proxy Advisor firms to get a sense of the issues they see as heating up and which are cooling down. Proxy Advisor firms offer comprehensive analysis of resolutions and guidance […]

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29 August 2024

The shape of activism in Australia

Victoria Geddes
Activism, All, Governance

VICTORIA GEDDES, Executive Director Activism in Australia is highly concentrated by sector, market cap and demand type. It is focused on the basic materials sector, in nano cap stocks and with two-thirds of demands on changes to the board. This is highly unusual in a global context where activity is more evenly spread across sectors […]

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