AGM bunching: Don't fight it, just step around it

APRIL is the time of the year when complaints about the bunching of annual general meetings (AGMs) generally become the loudest.

But trying to reduce AGM clustering is like trying to stay dry while water-skiing. It's futile, it gets in the way of the important things, and it's missing the point.

Bunching of shareholder meetings is not ideal, and it creates real problems. A recent study by corporate governance advocate Associate Professor…