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AGM Watch

by 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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Episodes

AGM Watch 2022 - Season Wrap-Up with Mike Robey and Lewis Gomes

53m · Published 13 Dec 06:32

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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Rachel Waterhouse - CEO of ASA | QAN & AGL

17m · Published 21 Nov 20:38
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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AGM Watch 2022 - Overview with Fiona Balzer

27m · Published 13 Oct 22:01

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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Fiona Balzer - 2021 Season Wrap Up

17m · Published 16 Dec 04:35

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

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AGM Watch - Blackmores

16m · Published 21 Oct 08:00
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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AGM Watch - Healius

15m · Published 11 Oct 09:05
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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AGM Watch - Telstra

13m · Published 04 Oct 22:28
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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AGM Watch - Tabcorp Holdings

15m · Published 04 Oct 22:21
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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AGM Watch - ASX Limited

19m · Published 22 Sep 11:06
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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AGM Watch 2021 - Overview with Fiona Balzer

28m · Published 20 Sep 14:03

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

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AGM Watch has 24 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 7:25:52. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 20th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on March 28th, 2024 06:43.

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