Stakeholders need to show up if they are to fully exercise their rights as shareholders, vote on resolutions and interact with the company's directors. But at any given company's AGM, it is typical for only 10 per cent of its shareholders to show up, says Jeremy Goh, academic director of the Centre for Corporate and Investor Responsibility, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at SMU.

The Business Times

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