Why are so many company directors diverting their energies into pushing publicly-owned corporations to take up controversial social and political issues (like diversity, climate change and same sex marriage), rather than concentrating on their duty to make a quid for their shareholders?
One reason may be emerging from last weekend’s dust-up between a trade union leader and a union-dominated industry superannuation fund that is not (yet) doing his bidding.
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