Author: Mak Yuen Teen

Three changes that would make Sias a much stronger outfit

The Securities Investors Association of Singapore (Sias) has played an important role in our corporate governance landscape. It was first off the blocks in recognising companies for corporate governance and transparency through awards, and initiated Corporate Governance Week five years ago to educate and focus attention on corporate governance.

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Too many cooks spoil the broth

THE role of the board in ensuring that a company has the appropriate strategies in place to deliver long-term value is often a matter of great confusion. This is not helped by generic advice offered by some “governance experts” and some corporate governance literature advocating that boards should be more “involved” in strategy and making vague references to the board’s role in developing or setting strategies.

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Truth about bribery, corruption risks

I FIRST got to know Richard Bistrong when he contacted me after my commentary in The Business Times on the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) bribery scandal (“Plausible deniability and graft by MNCs”, BT, May 21, 2014), in which I had quoted from his blog.

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