Given the amount of time the media has spent poring through the results of investor votes at major companies during the last few weeks, it's startling that nobody spotted the latest apparent backer of Britain's 'shareholder spring'.
Here's the surprise fact: I've learned that Temasek Holdings, the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund, withheld its support from the re-election of six executive directors of Standard Chartered at its annual meeting last week.
I'm told that it's the first time since Temasek became a shareholder in the London-based emerging markets bank about seven years ago that it hasn't voted its roughly 18 per cent stake in favour of all Standard Chartered's AGM resolutions. Full story
