AGM/EGM

SGX to sharpen focus on ecosystem initiatives to sustain equity market growth

The bourse will also be expanding its product range to meet investor demand

Singtel expects Optus to be a key driver of the group’s Ebit. This will be supported by ongoing cost-reduction efforts, rational pricing in mobile and broadband sectors, and further streamlining of the product portfolio.

Optus’ performance in spotlight at Singtel AGM

Even as the Australian unit’s financials improve, shareholders are concerned about the recent A$100 million penalty for sales misconduct, among other issues

Shareholders did not raise a single question at the 53rd annual general meeting of Singapore Airlines.

SIA chairman Peter Seah redesignated as non-independent director after AGM

Redesignation is in accordance with SGX rule which stipulates that a director of a listed company will not be independent if he or she has served for an aggregate period of more than nine years

SingPost Centre was defined as “non-core” following a strategic review in 2023-2024, because the board did not think SingPost was a property company, notes outgoing chairman Simon Israel.

SingPost directors quizzed about CEO search and company’s future strategies at AGM

Decision over divesting SingPost Centre now lies with the reconstituted board, which will review whether the property is non-core to the group and is to be sold, says outgoing chairman

In June, OCBC made a S$900 million conditional exit offer at S$30.15 per share for the 6.28% stake in Great Eastern it does not own.

Great Eastern set to resume trading after delisting vote fails

Another resolution, which included a one-for-one bonus issue resolution, is passed

For instance, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management’s votes against management proposals in the 12 months ended June 2024 stood at 22.1 per cent, up from 19.8 per cent the year prior.

Management booted out as Japan’s shareholders flex their muscles in AGMs

[TOKYO] Japan’s annual general meetings in June saw a CEO voted out and an entire board of directors replaced in a sign shareholders are increasingly holding management to account and providing impetu...

New Tech Park at 151 Lorong Chuan, an asset in Sabana Reit's portfolio. The Reit's sponsor, ESR Group, is seeking to hold the Reit's upcoming extraordinary general meeting in abeyance.

ESR attempts to suspend Sabana Reit’s May 24 EGM

The meeting is to be held by Sabana’s external manager to consider resolutions raised by activist investor Quarz Capital and four other unitholders of the Reit

CDL executive chairman Kwek Leng Beng (right) and his son and group CEO Sherman Kwek at the AGM on Apri 23..

Fireworks at CDL AGM, but shareholders vote strongly in favour of all resolutions

These include the re-election of numerous independent directors as well as a share purchase mandate

As Singapore strives to make the stock market more vibrant, the nominee issue may be something that needs to be addressed – by legislation perhaps – rather than by ad hoc measures.
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More nominee shareholders, accounts could be detrimental to investor protection

The Dasin Retail Trust saga illustrates the challenge for a listed issuer to operate when stakes are held through nominee accounts 

A resolution tabled by minority shareholders fails to garner at least half of the votes during the Reit's EGM at New Tech Park (above).

Sabana Reit unitholders vote against resolution to initiate price discovery process at EGM

They had called for the meeting as they believe ‘significant costs’ have been incurred from the manager internalisation