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AU Financial Review
3 days ago
- Business
- AU Financial Review
More directors are pushing back on shareholder critics, TCorp says
Powerful chief executives of major ASX-listed companies are strong-arming their boards into opposing shareholders who highlight issues around a firm's governance or even potential conflicts of interests, according to NSW's $120 billion sovereign wealth fund TCorp. An increasing number of directors were comfortable saying that 'they think shareholders have got it wrong' when challenged, TCorp's head of investment stewardship Alexis Cheang told AFR Weekend.
AU Financial Review
23-05-2025
- Politics
- AU Financial Review
Aussies in turmoil as Trump bans overseas students from Harvard
Nobel laureate and Harvard alumnus Brian Schmidt says Donald Trump's move to ban the world's best university from enrolling students from overseas is a 'profound escalation' of the president's culture wars that will trigger a global response. 'This is a major escalation that is absolutely violating the autonomy of Harvard and presumably other universities across the United States, and I suspect it will create a major backlash, both legally and within the higher education community of the United States and globally,' Schmidt told AFR Weekend.
