Boardroom Knockout

How Singapore’s Investor Watchdog Fights for Minority Shareholders

Paperback, 280 pages

Published Jan. 1, 2024

ISBN:
978-981-9405-63-3
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Directors absconding with millions in their pockets, foreign agents looking to destabilise companies, and thousands of individuals staring at a lifetime of savings gone. For the Securities Investors Association (Singapore), or SIAS, these are the cases they have had to deal with on an almost daily basis. Founded by the indomitable David Gerald, the association was created in 1999 to fight for 172,000 investors in Singapore who had billions of their savings frozen by the Malaysian government. They have since grown to a movement of thousands that fights for and protects the rights of minority shareholders.

The association has fought many more rounds against other heavyweights in high-profile corporate scandals that have dogged Singapore’s financial sector. From the China Aviation Oil scandal to the meltdown of Hyflux to the Lehman Brothers minibond saga, SIAS has been in the thick of the action, representing minority shareholders who would have otherwise been …

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