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Concerto
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09-Jul-2011 09:10
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Noted in the one of the BT article on this matter is that they are stuck between balancing commerical interests and minority shareholders interests. Given they are a listed company, naturally they would like to have the good companies listed and the lousy ones off the rack. I believe that spending their money to check if the companies are really negative equity is even more far fetched.  Money like 12 million  was spend when it is  unsuccessful trying to swallow a exchange of a much larger country. (i would not comment much whether its directors is aware and approve such costly gamble.) It is more worth it as compared to feed people to monitor the dying companies and helping to secure liquidity and corporate governance for our investments.  Similiarly, when it  proposes new  rules and  wanted big companies to list on the mainboard, our local sme (majority of  cant meet the new rule)  will list  as a second class citizen in its own Singapore  exchange on  the second board. They are just being answerable to their shareholders. Should buy their shares instead. I think the regulationary work should be done seperately by an independent party backed by the governement. At least, l hope, the decisions made will not be influence and driven by commerical interests. I also understand the government bodies like MAS  don mind  paying  more to employe many good and smart people  in regulating the finance industry.  Singapore is one of the leading financial hub, but I don think we do in the stock market area. Maybe many regulatory problems we see today can be reduced and hope we have a better stock market image, retail investors are fairly taken care of  and more trading acitivity, higher valuations,  when  a new team  runs the show in the future  
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Laulan
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08-Jul-2011 16:33
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Forcing a company to be delisted without an exit offer based on the reason of negative assets given by the directors might not be the correct manner to allow delisting because there may be values in asset not retaken or in some cases hidden assets available not obvious to the untrained eyes.   I hope SGX knows that in the world of commerce due diligence must be taken to ascertain truthfulness as to whether a company has assets in any form say, goodwill for a company in a particular industry for instance.  There must be an avenue for shareholders interested to buy the business, or reverse takeovers or pumping in capital. Talking about Firstlink, a year ago before the company was delisted, it has approx cash position of $2million.  After delisted it report some $200K cash.  This kind of things happens with many delisted companies.  Sometimes we find SGX knows very little about the inside of the companies but yet it acts in a very draconian manner against minority shareholders' interest.  Where a company has alot of cash and about to be delisted, there is no way of stopping the company from using up the cash indiscriminately. The only way is to introduce some form of protection by creating some solid rules. |
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Concerto
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07-Jul-2011 11:15
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i guess retail guys can only look to the authorities to take a judgement whether they want to step in and help us. If not, we are always at the losing end. Continue to dream that there is a level playing field. But we need to tell them we are watching them closely so that our other investments will not be affected again by similar inconsistency actions.
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jamesng
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06-Jul-2011 22:07
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Do what you can as a retail investors????
Call to explore all options before delisting a firm
Observers say SGX appears unable to enforce exit offer rule
By FELDA CHAY
'In a mandatory delisting, the SGX has effectively taken away that right of shareholders to approve the delisting.'
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Concerto
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06-Jul-2011 21:38
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I saw the BT article that SGX told them that if the board said  they are negative equity, they need not do an exit offer. (Funny, cannot find this rule in the SGX rule book on their website. Any readers please tell me where to find this rule or it has been just inserted recently but not highlighted in the rulebook). But  for those delisted company board of directors who said they are negative equity, has that been independently verified by professionals or has SGX satisfied itself that  the dire situation is naturally or artificially created? Anyone or people close to such company able to check  if they are being wind up due to insolvency ie negative capital. For Firstlink investment, l noted the chairman only got less than 10%. How to find money to buy 90% of the remaining shares? Not shares suspended, the poor shareholders also cant sell.
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Concerto
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06-Jul-2011 21:18
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I believe the voice for asking clear and truthful explanation of what happened and why went wrong  and what should be improved  is getting louder. Laulan,  we are not alone, just wanting the wrong things or wrong people  corrected so that history will not repeat itself. See the following articles (titles only) today in BT.
by Mak Yuen Teen Call to explore all options before delisting a firm
Observers say SGX appears unable to enforce exit offer rule
By FELDA CHAY Allow delisting companies to re-list as Catalist stocks
 
By shareholder of General Magnetics
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Laulan
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06-Jul-2011 16:53
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I am thinking what I should do to help shareholders of delisted companies to get back something from these companies.  I can help once I am organized with supportive shareholders for future cases if co-operation is given by involved shareholders. It is not difficult.  If SGX cannot forced the companies, then we can actually obtain a court order to freeze the assets and sell them off for distribution.  Is this a good idea? |
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Laulan
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06-Jul-2011 16:46
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What about Firstlink investment?  No exit offer.  Shareholders all see-liow.!!! Directors tummy big big and every can have good feasts.
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pharoah88
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06-Jul-2011 16:33
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wIll  thIs  hAppen tO SAIZEN  ? ? ? ? |
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pharoah88
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06-Jul-2011 11:08
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In  2010 analysts  were  recommending JAPAN  PROPERTY  SHARES as  gOOd  deAl |
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pharoah88
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06-Jul-2011 10:59
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GOVERNANCE  NEGLECT  ? ? ? ? WHICH  MINISTRY  is  ACCOUNTABLE  ? ? ? ? bUt  electIOn  is  O V E  R  ? ? ? ? wAIt  fOr  fOUr  yeArs  ? ? ? ? WHERE  is  the  PEOPLE's  vOIce  In  ParLIEment  ? ? ? ?
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Concerto
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06-Jul-2011 10:28
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I believe they tried already, but due not lack of transparency of  what is been done, l  not sure they did their best or not. Anyway, hope to hear from them on their explanations of inconsistencies, and see if they can do something to those controlling shareholders who had escaped the rules without do what is needed under the rules.
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Laulan
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04-Jul-2011 13:40
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OMGosh.  Seeing and hearing such frequency of occurrences tells me that the listing rules are just rules and not enforceable on directors of delisted companies.  What is the point of setting up rules when they mean nothing?  Then flouting the rules will be to one's advantage without penalty.  If stealing is not an offence, everyone will become robbers in this world by the grace of rule makers.. | |||||||||
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Concerto
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04-Jul-2011 11:40
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BT has written another interesting article protecting the minority investors regarding. Please read the article today. SGX should solve the mystery of the missing exit offers Minority shareholders upset that companies seem to get away without making one By FELDA CHAY   |
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Concerto
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02-Jul-2011 10:16
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Thx andrew  for your thoughts. I understand companies like general magnetics has assets, but no delisting offer was made and was forced to delist. (see BT on thursday) I sympathise the shareholders and company stuck in between because of such rules and not consistently applied. For other markets, I believe they applied their delisting rules very consistently and clearly given that the trigger points are very objective.  i believe it  does not impose  controlling shareholders to make exit offer and plus must be reasonable somemore. Commerically, who would willing spend money and make an investment which is reasonable to minority shareholder and likely not reasonable to herself? I not sure if other more established markets have such jokes in their rules. If so, share this joke with me. If the company has nothing to distribute and hence can go scot free, then should state in the rules that shareholders only can expect a exit offer if there is money left in the company. Rule not applicable if company is empty or insolvent. They also never give good explanation for why they  allow the company to be delisted,  without an offer eg Japan Land and general magnetics. We are all guessing what happened. Even singapore govt explains the policies to the people and admit they are wrong publicly in certain policies and promised to improve. That should be the way to uphold the good reputation of singapore stock market, transparent and level playing field. |
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Andrew
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01-Jul-2011 15:19
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When SGX let a company delist without an offer means that the company has nothing left.  How to give you money when there is no money in the first ? Actually, SGX is more lean when come to US and EURO market. Lean to everybody, including you.   In US, if the stock fell below the USD 1 mark for 90 consective days,  delist.  Did not submit 10K on time....delist. The oni thing SGX don't have is that there is a pink slip OTC market.  Delisted company can trade in OTC market with a .PK added.    
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knightrider
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01-Jul-2011 12:53
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Isn't it suspended \??
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Hulumas
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01-Jul-2011 12:16
Yells: "INVEST but not TRADE please!" |
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Still no one selling leeeeeeeeeh!
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bluesky88
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01-Jul-2011 10:03
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Concerto, U got mail..check u mailbox!
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des_khor
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01-Jul-2011 00:17
Yells: "Tell me who is the God or MFT from this forum??" |
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Keep buying China gaoxian
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