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Australia is ripe for shareholder activism

  • Written by Shams Pathan, Senior Lecturer, Finance, The University of Queensland
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Compared to other developed financial markets, Australia’s conditions favour shareholders when it comes to engaging with the companies they invest in. This is not only because of the rules in Australia’s Corporations Act of 2001, but also because of the large and growing pool of superannuation savings.

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