Social media at Governance New Zealand

Guidelines for participation in social media

Governance New Zealand currently has an active presence on the LinkedIn platform with the employment of other social media platforms currently under review. You can click on the icon below to follow us and to interact with us on a wide range of governance and risk management matters.

We welcome and encourage your involvement. It’s not only a good way to keep up to date with dynamic developments in the continually evolving world of governance and risk management, you can easily connect with your peers and experts to expand your networks.

To ensure everyone enjoys our time together we ask that you follow a few simple guidelines. (link to PDF of guidelines)

We thank you for your thoughtful participation!

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GPG focuses on cost cutting as restructuring plan is delayed by UK pensions regulator

30 August 2013

Guinness Peat Group [NZX: GPG]is focussing on cutting costs as an investigation by the UK pensions regulator delays its plan to wind up most of its investments and focus on threadmaker Coats.

30 Aug 2013

Boeing versus Airbus - Political backlash over BAE deal collapse

12 October 2012

Attempts to create a European giant to rival Boeing of the US have collapsed, amid investor anger at the handling of a multibillion-euro deal that would have transformed the world's defence and aerospace industry.

12 Oct 2012

Patents - Jury awards $1 billion victory to Apple

25 August 2012

Apple has won an emphatic victory in its US patent battle with Samsung, after a California jury found that the South Korean electronics group infringed a substantial majority of its contested design and user-interface patents.

25 Aug 12

S&P warns of $46 trillion refinancing challenge

11 May 2012

European companies could face serious challenges refinancing a wall of maturing debt over the next few years as the region's banks deal with the impact of regulation and fallout from the Eurozone debt crisis, according to a new report from Standard & Poor's.

11 May 2012

Fall of the mighty - Former Calpers chief accused of fraud

27 April 2012

This case is the latest step in a long-running investigation into abuses at Calpers, which has been seen as a champion of corporate governance, related to the payment of fees for access to the pension fund.

27 Apr 2012

GE suffers activist shareholder revolt

27 April 2012

Shareholders in General Electric have come close to winning a vote that would have given them more direct control over the largest US industrial group by market capitalisation against the wishes of its board.

27 Apr 2012

FMA releases results of stakeholder research findings

02 December 2011

The Financial Markets Authority has published on its website a report written by management consultants Oliver Wyman detailing the findings of local stakeholder research.

2 Dec 2011

CSIA Submission to EU: The EU Corporate Governance Framework

02 August 2011

In April 2011, the EU issued a Green Paper entitled The EU Corporate Governance Framework to launch a public consultation on possible ways forward to improve the corporate governance framework in Europe as part of its commitment to a single market.

CSIA [Corporate Secretaries International Association] believes that the various corporate governance frameworks in its member countries provide excellent comparative viewpoints from which to engage in this review.

2 August 2011

Contact Energy - Deputy Company Secretary

27 June 2011

Contact Energy and Future Step, a subsidiary of Korn/Ferry International, have invited CSNZ to advise Members & Affiliates of the opportunity of a new appointment of Deputy Company Secretary at Contact Energy in Wellington.

27 June 2011