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Features Australia

Business/Robbery etc

7 December 2019

9:00 AM

7 December 2019

9:00 AM

It is not going away. Corporate leaders are increasingly stepping outside their legal requirement to serve the best interests of their companies (and thereby the shareholder owners) by sticking their noses into controversial social issues. Mounting pressure from activist groups, with agendas often far distant from the best interests of most shareholders, is evident in resolutions being put up, for example, at bank AGMs demanding the ending of funding of any fossil fuel companies, not just coal.

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