Publications
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While you were sleeping: On-market share purchases for employees
Ownership Matters investigated the listed company practice of buying shares on market to fulfill employee equity schemes and catalogued the cost to companies and the impact on shareholders in the context of minimal, delayed, disclosure by companies.
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Wrong Way, Turn Back: Pay in the Contracting Sector in 2012
A detailed study of the pay practices of listed companies engaged in construction and contracting in the S&P/ASX 200. Contact us for a copy. …
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Institutional proxy voting in Australia in 2012
In a report commissioned by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors, Ownership Matters comprehensively reviewed the voting system in Australia in 2012.
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Waiting for Godot? Executive Pay Alignment in the Property Sector in 2012
Ownership Matters forensically examined the sectoral trends and misalignment of pay practices across the A-REIT sector over the past 5 years. To download the report, click on the following link: Property Pay Practices 120928 …
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Briefing paper on ‘two strikes’ one year in
Ahead of the 2012 AGM season, Ownership Matters prepared a paper that considered the operation of the two strikes regime in 2011 (its first year of operation) and its approach to board spill resolutions in 2012 and beyond.
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Speech at the ASIC Summer School 2012
Dean Paatsch spoke at the ASIC Summer School in February 2012 on corporate governance from the perspective of institutional shareholders. Their expectations of directors, the governance practices of listed companies, and the increased monitoring of corporate behaviour by individuals and private businesses.
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Capital raisings in 2008-2009
Simon Connal and Martin Lawrence published this report in August 2010 after comprehensively reviewing every capital raising by companies in the S&P/ASX 200 in 2008 and 2009. It calls for improved transparency and fairness in equity capital markets. Download This document is free to…
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Governance in listed infrastructure funds
Martin Lawrence prepared this prescient paper with a former colleague, highlighting the governance deformities of these externally managed vehicles and the traps for unwary securityholders. This report was widely credited with hastening the demise of these entities.