When a company – a trading empire, no less – downgrades the corporate governance code it follows because it feels it is unsuited to Asia, investors should sit up. Jardines has long ticked few governance boxes yet has been accepted as well-run. But by changing its London listings to the so-called standard category (where governance rules are less stringent than in the premium category), the group is sending the wrong message.
當某一家公司——其實是一個貿易帝國——降低自己的公司治理標準，只因爲它覺得這套標準不適合亞洲時，投資者應該警惕。怡和集團(Jardines)歷來在公司治理方面很少達標，但仍被公認爲經營有方。然而，該集團將其在倫敦上市的股票改爲所謂的「標準類」（該類別的公司治理沒有「高級類」嚴格），此舉發出了錯誤的資訊。
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