More say by minority shareholders does not always mean better decisions

Provost’s Chair Prof Ke Bin from the Department of Accounting at NUS Business School noted that it is critical to identify effective control mechanisms that can strengthen protection for minority shareholders and therefore, increase such shareholder value. He also shared on the findings of a joint research on equity offering proposals submitted pre- and post-regulation which suggest that mutual funds play a key governance role in deterring management from submitting value-decreasing proposals.

• The Sunday Times, 29 April 2018, Invest, pB15