The Qantas board looks set to be spared a humiliating spill motion at the airline’s upcoming AGM, after an influential proxy advisory firm recommended shareholders vote in favour of the executive remuneration report.
Last year the remuneration report was voted down by a resounding 82.9 per cent of shareholders, angered by large salaries and bonuses for executives who oversaw the trashing of the Qantas brand.
The result prompted a review of corporate governance at Qantas, and led to the decision to deny former CEO Alan Joyce $9.26m in bonuses, and slash other executives’ short term bonuses by a third.
Rene Rivkin was found guilty of insider trading over the purchase and sale of Qantas shares across consecutive months in 2001 for a profit of just c.$2,665 for which he was fined $30,000 and did gaol time. Makes one wonder.Thanks @cove
Story in today's Oz
Qantas AGM shaping up to be less fiery affair after support from influential proxy advisory firm
A bit of it
Ah rubbing shoulders with the well healed of the terror fraternity. Not so many now of-course.Mrscove is the real Qantas shareholder even though the shares are jointly owned. She got them for us in the float all those years ago.
We now don’t fly with QF internationally because they are not good enough. It may change but Qatar is coming.
Chicken feed even then and I look at the more substantial trades in more recent times. Not asking for comments as any allegations could be misguided.Great memory @prozac. I do wonder who got Rene’s worry beads.
Insider trading is still a crime but very few have ended up in prison.
I do hope you are enjoying the stock markets going up and down.
I’m in this boat too with quite a few WEB shares, though I’ve made a fair bit of money on them over the years with their ups and downs so not totally concerned. Glad though I sold some at $8 fairly recently, even though they went higher than that.Took a hit on Webjet yesterday.their web beds profitability tanked.
Sold out of FMG today. Happy with the 16% profit + dividend over the 2 months since purchase.I'm buying FMG.
FLT got of easy then, only a 20% dropTomorrow is 19.10 ie the 37 year anniversary of ‘Black Monday’ (strictly speaking Black Tuesday here as that is when our markets opened and the axe fell)
More than 40% drop in value in one day here.
As long as he is off the self-medication.We have lots of GDG shares that have been on a tear recently. They are outperforming in the retirement and annuity sectors. Grant Hackett is the CEO. That is Generation Development.
Today WAM went ex dividend so the share price adjusted by the cash amount plus the franking credit.
Meanwhile Qantas apologized for sacking baggage handlers…..about 3 years late…