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大笔投资不赚钱
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这个纳税人拥有的银行6 [3 ]* U' `6 q
07-08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: M4 j$ s6 c+ j% S" a
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万 }* K& h8 l4 [# |0 G) z2 p5 k. {
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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) O& F, z1 [$ m2 h# Q QLiberal 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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+ x4 K1 F4 P2 X0 G1 g5 {Auditor 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.
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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.. x6 ], y6 u3 p0 t, l% p
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million., G% b" s s6 R! Z4 d- }7 S
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.* q! L! S: V5 `3 d7 a
$ X# e/ N4 ?. ]. F& yThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.+ Q7 ~5 V" ] P' z1 g
' y( a8 X' a, e" h RThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.! Q# M: ?8 P9 ]- M
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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“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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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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H4 D0 t2 t: \7 F7 sThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.2 }5 e% @2 T: B h8 r5 m
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.: j2 h$ s% ?, ]$ R7 ?3 ?
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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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# B, x' [ [# n1 a7 C6 Z2 FATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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