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大笔投资不赚钱
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被政府调查质询
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+ S. x. P) p* X4 R+ w8 K. s07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
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而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
5 f! U9 z+ r2 r% k' F v06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.1 u% p5 O/ \4 _; V* i0 Y i
; A! x, S3 G% @; b1 pLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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, p% T) W6 |* z9 pAuditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.1 h" i3 N5 B! m
/ f/ A: m# q$ @6 [Dunn’s annual report, released last week, said ATB earned a net income of $30 million in the 2007-08 fiscal year, a fraction of its $262 million target.+ ]- u; Z0 {0 e" V% K# H* a
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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g2 Q, l8 [& B/ M+ \5 i3 p* lThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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6 I: d4 l/ q8 l, a8 A* nThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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9 ^0 W) m3 V3 LATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south./ v1 h4 F9 |- l
, p1 d) a r* J* h$ p1 |7 s“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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6 u5 `6 |- U5 ~' m/ u# IMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.1 M" r/ k1 l5 O. T9 D# d6 g* T
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The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.
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' z7 A A# W5 j“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.* r# R; \( E! U3 r1 G
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MacDonald said he’s also worried about Dunn’s finding that criminal background checks on new employees are taking up to three weeks after they’ve been hired.
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( c2 }2 J9 J; HATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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