Market Talk: Drop the canapés and put the heat on bosses

It’s agm season, so what can we expect this year?

Smurfit Kappa's Tony Smurfit and Liam O’Mahony at its AGM. Picture: Fergal Phillips

Annual general meeting season has rolled around again. It’s time once more for a dwindling band of shareholders to make their perennial complaints, indulge in free food in some of the country’s best hotels and generally miss an opportunity to put serious questions to directors, some of whom appear to want to be anywhere else.

Some spice has been injected into agms in recent years, with a number of revolts against excessive pay ...