CSA AGM Review: Operational Excellence, Board Issues, and Chair Succession Practice
Explore significant topics from John Rennie FCIS' review of CSA's AGM, including board governance, operational excellence, shareholder issues, and more.
CSA AGM Review: Operational Excellence, Board Issues, and Chair Succession Practice
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Breaking news John Rennie FCIS, CSA
AGM Review • The Constitution • Postponing the meeting • Quaint terms/definitions in the notice of meeting • Operational excellence moment • Bad leaver or not? • The double negative
Board issues • Chairman succession practice • When to resolve, ratify or note • Board limits/temporary increase in the number of directors • Use of tablets for accessing board papers/annotation/discovery/destruction
Shareholder issues • Unclaimed dividends • Small shareholdings • Share gift/dividend direction plans • Australian shareholders association – revised voting policy • Off market transfers - SMSF
Keeping good companies - 2013 • February - Two strikes rule – playing by the rules • March – Trading on false information/insider trading • April – Defence costs under D&O policy • May – Company limited by guarantee that is a charity