Financial Times: Dialogue of the deaf
By Jane Fuller
Jun 15, 2004
What is the point of having meetings with shareholders to talk about corporate governance if there is no free and frank discussion of the alternatives?
This unsatisfactory state of affairs seems to be governing Royal Dutch/ Shell’s meetings with investors. Yesterday it was representatives of the Association of British Insurers who emerged disappointed from a meeting with Lord Oxburgh, acting chairman of the UK arm of the Anglo-Dutch oil group, and Sir Peter Burt, senior independent director.