Singapore was an early focus of ACGA's advocacy work. Our efforts began in 2005 with a submission on proposed revisions to Singapore's original Code of Corporate Governance, published in 2001. Following the release in 2006 of our inaugural report on Asia's then antiquated systems of proxy voting, we held a roundtable on shareholder voting in early 2007 with two local professional associations. Later the same year we worked with local custodian banks on an original report critiquing the "two proxy card" system, which at the time was inhibiting the participation of fund managers in AGMs in Singapore. We recommended a number of changes to the company law and these finally came to fruition in 2014-16.

Over the years, ACGA has also responded to numerous regulatory consultation exercises on issues ranging from amendments to the Companies Act, updating of SGX listing rules and CG Code, and sustainability reporting. Our most recent submission focussed on dual-class shares.