AGM Watch: Recent Episodes
Philip Muscatello
Do you feel powerless as a shareholder? You’re supposed to be part owner of a business yet how can you have a say in how the company is run? Each year the Australian Shareholders’ Association or ASA, monitors the performance of most of Australia’s ASX200 companies - protecting the rights of retail shareholders with a dedicated team of company monitors. These volunteer members meet with company chairs and directors, and attend AGMs to ask questions of importance to members and retail shareholders.ASA has 110 volunteer monitors – who come from a wide range of backgrounds. Many have expertise and life experience that contributes to their analysis of company performance – whether governance, financial or operational.The ASA also aggregates voting intentions, representing approximately 4 billion dollars of shareholder value with the ASA nominated as proxy. This is AGM watch where we talk with company monitors and what they’re looking at this AGM season. AGM Watch and the ASA - looking out for your interests.
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Each year the Australian Shareholders' Association monitors the performance of most of Australia’s top 200 companies - protecting the rights of retail shareholders with a dedicated team of volunteer company monitors.
In this episode we're joined by Mike Robey, Company Monitoring Committee Chair for Victoria, and Lewis Gomes, the NSW Company Monitoring Chair.
We spoke about:
- The Telstra AGM and the challenges it faces
- The shape of the Telstra restructure and the role of holding companies
- Vicky Brady’s appointment as CEO
- How the holding company structure is being implemented at ANZ.
- BHP & RIO have been star performers despite their attempts to divest out of fossil fuels.
- SEEK and voting against the remuneration report.
- SEEK's investment arm and how is this affecting operations?
- Why Goodman Group a successful company with an outrageous remuneration report
- CBA - Great results and excellent internal culture/leadership but poor management of its AGM
- Origin Energy - a tale of two companies
- The struggles of Lend Lease
Each year the Australian Shareholders' Association monitors the performance of most of Australia’s top 200 companies - protecting the rights of retail shareholders with a dedicated team of volunteer company monitors. Fiona Balzer is the Policy and Advocacy Manager at the ASA and she is here to talk about the upcoming AGM season. This episode is focused on the outcomes at QAN and AGL.
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Each year the Australian Shareholders' Association monitors the performance of most of Australia’s top 200 companies - protecting the rights of retail shareholders with a dedicated team of volunteer company monitors. Fiona Balzer is the Policy and Advocacy Manager at the ASA and she is here to talk about the upcoming AGM season. This episode is focused on 3 of the more interesting meetings - ASX, The Star and AGL.
Each year the Australian Shareholders' Association monitors the performance of most of Australia’s top 200 companies - protecting the rights of retail shareholders with a dedicated team of volunteer company monitors. Fiona Balzer is the Policy and Advocacy Manager at the ASA and we chat about the AGM Season that's just been.
We discuss:
Voting against Westpac’s remuneration report.
17 “strikes” for companies we monitor. The top 3 were Dexus 66%, Link Administration 63% and Rio Tinto 61%.
Virtual & Hybrid meetings
And all the fun and games of the Blackmores AGM
Julieanne Mills is the ASA's volunteer monitor for Blackmores. She's speaking about the upcoming BKL AGM on October 27, 2021.
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Patricia Beal is the ASA's volunteer monitor for Healius. She's speaking about the upcoming HLS AGM on October 21, 2021.
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Mike Robey is the ASA's volunteer monitor for Telstra Limited. He's speaking about the upcoming TLS AGM on October 12, 2021.
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Mike Muntisov is the ASA's volunteer monitor for Tabcorp. He's speaking about the upcoming TAH AGM on October 19, 2021.
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Peter Gregory is the ASA's volunteer monitor for ASX Limited. He is speaking about the upcoming ASX AGM on September 29, 2021.
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Each year the Australian Shareholders' Association monitors the performance of most of Australia’s top 200 companies - protecting the rights of retail shareholders with a dedicated team of volunteer company monitors. Fiona Balzer is the Policy and Advocacy Manager at the ASA and she is here to talk about the upcoming AGM season.
We talk about:
The latest impacts of COVID
Legislation regarding hybrid AGMs
The increasing importance of ESG
BHP chief executive Mike Henry's remuneration
In this final episode for the year, we cover some of the highlights (and lows) from the 2020 AGM season. Each year the Australian Shareholders' Association monitors the performance of most of Australia’s top 200 companies. Fiona Balzer is the Policy and Advocacy Manager at the ASA.
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Carol Limmer is the ASA's volunteer monitor for Westpac. She is speaking about the upcoming WBC AGM on December 11, 2020.
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Claudio Esposito is the ASA's volunteer monitor for SEEK. He is speaking about the upcoming SEK AGM on November 19, 2020.
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Don Adams is the ASA's volunteer monitor for Woolworths. He is speaking about the upcoming WOW AGM on November 12, 2020.
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Kelly Buchanan & Mike Sackett are the ASA's volunteer monitors for Flight Centre. They are speaking about the upcoming FLT AGM on November 5, 2020.
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John Campbell is the ASA's volunteer monitor for South32. John is speaking about the upcoming S32 AGM on October 29, 2020.
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Mike Robey is the ASA's volunteer monitor for JB Hi-Fi. Mike is speaking about the upcoming JBH AGM on October 29, 2020.
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Carol Limmer is the ASA's volunteer monitor for SGR. Mike is speaking about the upcoming SGR AGM on October 22, 2020.
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Allan Goldin is the ASA's volunteer monitor for Qantas. Mike is speaking about the upcoming QAN AGM on October 23, 2020.
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Lewis Gomes is the ASA's volunteer monitor for CBA. Mike is speaking about the upcoming CBA AGM on October 13, 2020.
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Mike Muntisov is the ASA's volunteer monitor for CSL. Mike is speaking about the upcoming CSL AGM on October 14 2020.
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Mike Muntisov is the ASA's volunteer monitor for Transurban. Mike is speaking about the upcoming Transurban AGM on October 8 2020.
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Each year the Australian Shareholders' Association monitors the performance of most of Australia’s top 200 companies - protecting the rights of retail shareholders with a dedicated team of volunteer company monitors. Fiona Balzer is the Policy and Advocacy Manager at the ASA and she is here to talk about the upcoming AGM season and especially, what it means for members who want to make sure that their savings and super is invested in companies that are acting ethically.
We talk about:
The impact of COVID this yearEnsuring that virtual meetings are close as possible to physicalBoards being stretched thin due to directors having been hit with challenges at the same time in multiple companiesConduct issues – companies dealing with sexual harassment and bullyingConduct and consequence management after the Banking Royal CommissionExecutives sharing the pain equally during the COVID crisis?
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Do you feel powerless as a shareholder? You’re supposed to be part owner of a business yet how can you have a say in how the company is run?Each year the Australian Shareholders’ Association or ASA, monitors the performance of most of Australia’s ASX200 companies - protecting the rights of retail shareholders with a dedicated team of company monitors. These volunteer members meet with company chairs and directors, and attend AGMs to ask questions of importance to members and retail shareholders.ASA has 110 volunteer monitors – who come from a wide range of backgrounds. Many have expertise and life experience that contributes to their analysis of company performance – whether governance, financial or operationalThe ASA also aggregates voting intentions, representing approximately 4 billion dollars of shareholder value with the ASA nominated as proxy.This is AGM watch where I’ll talk with company monitors and what they’re looking at this AGM season.AGM Watch and the ASA - looking out for your interests.
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