Leading investors have called on company board directors to have more “skin in the game” by increasing their ownership of shares in the organisations they represent, as ASX 200 boards gear up for the annual general meeting season.
Mr Wylie argues that directors holding more shares in the companies they direct would introduce a greater “ownership mentality” in the boardroom, better aligning directors’ interests with shareholders. Mr Williams says this has two outcomes: “It requires directors to think more like shareholders rather than just guns for hire, and secondly it weeds out those people who are just there for the income.”
Australian companies found themselves sitting on a cash pile of almost $40 billion this year, after unwinding capital buffers built up during the pandemic, which are now fuelling a spree of acquisitions, buybacks and also record dividends.
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