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Hubris delivers Macquarie a pay protest

The first strike by shareholders is a wake-up call for the management, which must now restore investor confidence or risk the prospect of another showdown next year.

The view from the top may be blinding, but even the so-called Millionaires Factory isn’t immune to scrutiny. Macquarie Group’s hubris is now colliding with its growing litany of regulatory failures.

At Thursday’s annual shareholder meeting, the bank was slapped with its first-ever remuneration report strike after shareholders were urged by two leading proxy firms, CGI Glass Lewis and Ownership Matters, to vote against multimillion-dollar executive pay in response to the company’s ongoing compliance and risk-related breaches.

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