Pigs at the Trough, 1st Edition by Adam Schwab - ISBN: 9781742169903
Paperback
The past decade has seen a period of unparalleled growth in executive remuneration. But while CEO pay exploded, shareholders looked on helplessly as some of Australia’s best-known companies self-destructed. When the fall eventually came, executives were well protected. Shareholders and creditors were not so lucky.

Pigs at the Trough, 1st Edition

Lessons from Australia's Decade of Corporate Greed

  • Paperback

    264 pages

  • Release Date

    5 March 2010

Summary

The past decade has seen a period of unparalleled growth in executive remuneration. But while CEO pay exploded, shareholders looked on helplessly as some of Australia’s best-known companies self-destructed. When the fall eventually came, executives were well protected. Shareholders and creditors were not so lucky.

From Telstra’s enriching of Sol Trujillo to the toppling of Eddy Groves’s ABC Learning Centres and the untold accounts of the billions lost by the collapsed Babcock & Brown,…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781742169903
ISBN-10:1742169902
Author:Adam Schwab
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd
Imprint:John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:264
Edition:1st
Release Date:5 March 2010
Weight:413g
Dimensions:15mm x 156mm x 231mm
A-Format
B-Format
Pigs at the Trough, 1st Edition by Adam Schwab - ISBN: 9781742169903
156 × 231 mm
C-Format
A4
mm / in
About The Author

Adam Schwab

Adam Schwab was a corporate lawyer at one of Australia’s largest firms before becoming a founding director of diversified accommodation and services group AJ Capital. Since 2004, he has also been a financial journalist and business commentator for Australia’s largest and most influential online publication, Crikey, a business contributor to Fairfax publications, including The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and has advised some of Australia’s leading fund managers on corporate governance and remuneration issues. Go to for more information on Adam Schwab.

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