Investing & Finance·Opinion Rating the AGMs – how the old Barlow’s unbundlings stack up March 18, 2025 by Ann Crotty It’s AGM season for the old Barloworld stable of companies; Spar and Nampak get top marks but the original scores a ‘fail’ Read More
Energy & ESG·Investing & Finance Shareholders stonewall RMH non-execs’ pay March 7, 2025 by Ann Crotty A group of disgruntled shareholders have blocked RMH non-executive directors’ pay – for only the third time in JSE history Read More
Investing & Finance Spar doubles down in bid to nail ex-execs March 3, 2025 by Ann Crotty The dubious decisions of its previous leadership continue to haunt Spar. But it hasn’t given up its efforts to reclaim damages from them Read More
Investing & Finance Shareholder revolt rocks Barloworld’s AGM February 24, 2025 by Ann Crotty Barloworld’s board has been slammed for its handling of a controversial buyout bid. Its AGM provided a glimpse into just how angry shareholders are Read More
Energy & ESG·Opinion How to stay off the AGM sh*t list January 10, 2025 by Ann Crotty You don’t want to get onto Ann Crotty’s corporate sh*t list. So here’s the Currency guide to holding a better AGM in 2025 Read More
Energy & ESG·Investing & Finance·Opinion Rupert’s class-act AGM December 2, 2024 by Ann Crotty Currency’s AGM scoring system gives Remgro an ‘A’ but FirstRand a ‘D’. Read More
Investing & Finance·Opinion Rating the AGMs: Shoprite good, Sasol okay, Truworths woeful November 20, 2024 by Ann Crotty It’s impossible to know how many Shoprite shareholders live in the town of Brackenfell in the northern suburbs of the Western Cape. It’s not Read More
Energy & ESG·Investing & Finance How Sasol went rogue on its climate ‘plans’ November 18, 2024 by Ann Crotty Has Sasol gone rogue? And more importantly, do its major shareholders even care? On Friday, the petrochemical giant endured another tense AGM – though, Read More
Investing & Finance·News The death dash November 12, 2024 by Ann Crotty It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a time when shareholders and consumers didn’t care a jot about fatalities in the mining sector. Read More
Opinion·Pleasure Democracy by a thread — fear and fascism at the sectional title AGM November 6, 2024 by Jono Hall There is nothing to sour you on the concept of democracy quite like actually having to live in one. Look, before you get the Read More