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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AGM Watch 2022 - Season Wrap-Up with Mike Robey and Lewis Gomes
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
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21 Nov 2022
Rachel Waterhouse - CEO of ASA | QAN & 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. Rachel Waterhouse is the CEO at the ASA and she is here to talk about the AGM season. This episode is focused on the outcomes at QAN and AGL.
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13 Oct 2022
AGM Watch 2022 - Overview with Fiona Balzer
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.
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