Abstract
Board diversity of SGX-listed firms in terms of gender diversity, ethnic diversity and age diversity are all associated with significantly better company performance, yet less than 50% of boards display them. Only 7.7% of the companies researched display diversity in all categories, and those companies enjoy the highest performance levels – nearly five times higher than those without diversity. This report is a joint initiative between the Centre for Governance, Institutions and Organisations (CGIO) at NUS Business School and Board Agender with the aim of tracking boardroom gender diversity in Singapore on an annual basis. The report focused on Singapore-listed companies (SGX Mainboard and Catalist), and covered 4,629 directorships in 676 SGX-Iisted companies based on companies’ annual reports with financial year end between October 2012 and September 2013. The securities were actively trading as of 31 December 2013. The report also contained analysis of trends derived from the CGIO directors’ database covering 2008- 2013.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Singapore |
| Commissioning body | National University of Singapore |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |