YS Up - Governance and Boards

About YS Up - Governance and Boards

An easy to understand educational podcast covering hot topics in governance, risk, latest regulatory changes and issues keeping directors and executives awake at night. A practical guide to assist in navigating the complex regulatory minefield, increased public scrutiny, erosion of trust, climate change, modern slavery, non-financial risks, systemic cultural problems and other challenges facing companies in Australia in 2020 and beyond. Are you a company director, secretary, board member, C-Suite, executive or senior manager with an interest in governance, risk and regulatory change? Then this is the podcast for you!

Publisher

3YS Owls Governance Consultants, Ainslie Cunningham and Deb Anderson

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 May 2020

Latest episode

27 Jan 2021

Latest episodes

35 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Jan 2021

   Start-Up Capital, Investment Management, Micro-To-Mid-Cap Listed Entities with Martin Pretty

   In this episode of YS Up Governance and Boards Podcast, 3YS Owls Governance Consultants, Ainslie Cunningham and Deb Anderson interview Martin Pretty. Martin is the Founding Director & Investment Manager of Equitable Investors Pty Ltd. Equitable Investors is an independent investment manager focused on identifying listed investment opportunities and engaging constructively with the people behind them to maximise shareholder value. Its directors have over 50 years of combined professional experience in investment markets, focused on those market segments in which higher total returns are most likely to be found, being micro-to-mid cap listed companies, larger strategic opportunities, unlisted growth opportunities & mezzanine or alternative financing. We explore with Martin his entre into the business world through the lens of a journalist, Equitable Investors investment philosophy and their Dragonfly Fund, ESG reporting and investing and the world of finance, equities research and investments. "So my time in both on the research side and working with Thorney Investments, I guess what I learned from working with the people that I worked with was that the best opportunities in the way I see the world, everyone's got a different view, but the way I see the world is when you invest in smaller businesses with a lot more upside in terms of the potential growth and value uplift for those businesses, you can get to know the businesses and get close to the people running those businesses, rather than sitting there at a screen and just reading ASX announcements and not really having the context of what's behind them and the quality of the people with real ambitions driving it. And also, part of that philosophy is to get involved and where you can, assist the company, communicate with the company to ensure that they're focused on the things you believe they should be focused on, or they're aware of the opportunities that you can see. I believe that over time we've seen that that's paid off in spades in terms of being not necessarily an activist investor, not trying to oppose current regimes or break things apart, but to be involved and be constructive and try and collectively work for value maximization. So that's probably the philosophy behind Equitable Investors and our fund, Dragonfly Fund." - Martin Pretty Summary of episode · Working as a journalist for the Australian Financial Review and Investorweb · Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting and investing · Microcaps · Debt v Equity · Capital raisings including convertible...

2. 

   16 Dec 2020

   Corporate Governance from a Global Perspective with Peter Turnbull AM

   In this episode of YS Up Governance and Boards Podcast, 3YS Owls Governance Consultants, Ainslie Cunningham and Deb Anderson interview Peter Turnbull AM. Peter is an experienced non-executive director and chair of listed public companies, and has extensive governance experience as a former president, fellow and life member of the Governance Institute of Australia and is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. We explore with Peter his extensive career working for Regulators in Australia and overseas, his executive, NED and Chair roles and the wealth of experience gained over his career to date in the energy and technology commercialisation sectors. The skills required to gain a non-executive director board role, the importance of risk management, keeping governance simple, people and open and transparent communication in every business, Peter's extensive contribution to Governance both nationally and internationally, executive remuneration, culture and so much more. "Look, it's nice in the sense that we're a global community. I see a lot of the things that we grapple with and talk about here. For instance, Canada, the UK, people are talking about the same things in most countries. The Chartered Governance Institute has nine divisions around the world. We have about 30,000 members and a 120-year history. It gives you a really good vantage point to see what others are doing, and talking about, and worrying about. They're very similar. Some of the things we've talked about here already, they're the same sorts of things. Particularly during 2020, how do we hold virtual meetings? What are the regulators prepared to do and not do? Will some of these things become permanent? Exactly the same, particularly in the UK, Canada, but even Africa. They're talking about the same sorts of things in Southern Africa and Zimbabwe. It's really great because we can... At the global level, we share a lot. We share what our different regulators are doing. We share many of our own solutions that we've come up with. We try not to reinvent the wheel, so to speak each time. That's one of the things I'm really trying to encourage as president at the minute. Make sure we're sharing what we've already done and invented and rolled out. But it's a very high level of discussion on the same sorts of things around the world." - Peter Turnbull AM Summary of episode · Peter's appointment as a Member of the Order of Australia in June 2020 (as announced in the Queen's Birthday 2020 Honours List), for services to business administration and corporate governance institutes · General vantage point of Peter's global view on governance and being very involved as a Chair/Director and in the global governance community · Learnings from 2020 and the key risks for 2021 · Strategy and risk management · Ways that a board can reconnect with middle management · <a href="https://asic.gov.au/about-asic/news-centre/news-items/asic-guidelines-for-investor-meetings-using-virtual-technology/"...

3. 

   9 Dec 2020

   ESG, CSR & Modern Slavery Reporting with Nicholas Bernhardt, CEO Informed 365

   In this episode of YS Up Governance and Boards Podcast, 3YS Owls Governance Consultants, Ainslie Cunningham and Deb Anderson interview Nicholas Bernhardt. Nicholas is the CEO and Co-Founder of Informed 365, an Australian based tech company that specialises solely on better sustainability outcomes. They develop customised real-time digital platforms with predictive capabilities and unlimited analytics functionality to provide improved visibility and transparency and to allow their clients to make better, more informed decisions. We explore with Nicholas ESG, CSR and Modern Slavery reporting and the diagnostic tools that are offered by Informed 365, and some of the stunning statistics around the number of people living in slave-like situations. "You might know that last year, October 2019, the Property Council launched an Australian-first shared platform for their members to combat modern slavery. It was not the usual Stockland, Mirvac, Lendlease tackle modern slavery in their little silos. They do that collaboratively. Modern slavery is a non-compete space. Let's face it. We all want to eradicate it. Well, not all. The perpetrators don't want to eradicate it, but normal, healthy, sane people want to eradicate modern slavery. It was good to see an industry organisation take the lead and say, "Look, we're just going to do this because it will be much more efficient, and the impact will be a lot greater." - Nicholas Bernhardt Summary of episode · Modern Slavery Reporting · Modern Slavery Act 2018 · Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) Reporting · Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) · Supply chain management · Some corporate examples of the 'poster child' in terms of CSR: Patagonia, Outland Denim, Property Council of Australia · Connecting devices, data and databases to produce meaningful information · Web-Based Platform Solutions Provider of Supply Chain Management, Business Intelligence, Climate Change Adaptation/Resilience and CSR Certification · Department of Home Affairs · CIPS · Climate change · Workplace Health and Safety · ESG Investing · Treasury Wine Estates · <a...