As part of my strategy to learn more about how corporate annual general meetings are held to beef up my corporate governance experience, I have started making it a point to attend annual general meetings (AGMs) of the companies that I have invested.

So far, I have attended last year’s DBS and SPH annual general meetings and they were useful exercises in seeing how different blue-chip companies conducted their annual general meetings.

Also, one of my targets is to position myself to be experienced and qualified to become an independent director of a listed company when I am near to retirement age as this could potentially provide a second “career” of sorts when my career as an internal auditor may plateau at some stage near the official retirement age in 20+ years’ time.

Key Highlights of the Singapore Exchange Ltd AGM

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