Our VISION
To be the PREMIER service entity in ENHANCING shareholder activism and PROTECTING minority interests.
Our MISSION
To lead in the development of KNOWLEDGEABLE as well as VIBRANT minority shareholders and delivering
our services EFFECTIVELY, EFFICIENTLY and ECONOMICALLY, thereby contributing to the overall
development of the CAPITAL MARKET.
Our GOAL
To achieve CREDIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY through
the provision of our products and services by 2009.
Our OBJECTIVES
To achieve our VISION, MSWG’s objectives
are as follows:-
- To become the FORUM on minority shareholders’ experiences in the context
of the Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance and the Securities
Commission’s Disclosure Based Regime and the Capital
Market Masterplan, and thereafter to build databank on minority
interests and corporate governance matters and to conduct
continous on-going research on those subject matters.
- To become the THINK-TANK and RESOURCE CENTRE for minority interests
and corporate governance matters in Malaysia and thus, become
the centre and focal point of knowledge on these subject
matters which will be made readily accessible and available
from our computerized databank.
- To DEVELOP and DISSEMINATE the educational information of corporate governance.
- To become the PLATFORM to initiate collective shareholder activism on unethical
or questionable practices by management of the public listed
companies. MSWG will:-
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Evaluate events and activities with the
view to offer sound and independent advice or unbiased
informed opinion;
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Establish direct dialogues and communications with management
of public listed companies concerned; and
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Raise legitimate concerns on relevant issues and ask
key questions professionally to the respective management
of public listed companies and vote at the AGMs and EGMs
on behalf of the members and clients as their proxy holders.
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- To INFLUENCE the
decision making process in public listed companies as the
leader for minority shareholders’ legitimate rights
and interests.
- To continuously MONITOR for breaches and non-compliance in corporate governance
practices by public listed companies, that may be detrimental
to the rights and interests of the minority shareholders
and to disclose current practices to stakeholders and publicise
such matters. Hence supporting the government’s drive
for globalization and foreign investment.
- To INITIATE where appropriate, reports to regulatory authorities and
in doing so, transforming MSWG into an effective deterrent
of such events or activities that can be against the interests
of the minority shareholders.
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Our MANDATES
Our PUBLIC
MANDATE is to
inform the investing public and be a voice for minority shareholders.
Our MEMBERS/SUBSCRIBERS MANDATE is to deliver
the appropriate services and products to members/subscribers in
return for entrance fees, subscriptions fees and user-charge fees.
As an industry-driven investor group, we are bound by our Articles
of Association to benefit our members. We fulfill this members’
mandate by providing “tools” to our institutional investor
members as well as to other institutions of the investment community,
such as brokers and fund managers, who are subscribers to our services.
The “tools” (or services) we provide help our members
and subscribers exercise their shareholder rights and perform their
institutional investor responsibilities as minority shareholders.
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