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大笔投资不赚钱
# N! D6 N) g" o, F5 T反而发大笔的奖金( F/ v" X3 {& H6 u8 s9 S: w$ M
被政府调查质询/ f+ ?. a/ o; o; y* b/ j+ f2 X
这个纳税人拥有的银行# g: b$ y' E& C# U5 W/ `
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
, V7 ]4 l& \6 s2 m06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万0 U. c/ q$ f/ m5 e/ X: ?5 O3 \
7 t# C' E8 O8 X8 G$ a R- q# pEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.. `9 n+ Q5 o; s8 ?4 |" T
8 r; r8 _: b* \# V- v: f! g3 \! TLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.4 ^; t( R3 {2 k: Q$ `- D& L
t4 C# i; z1 C- d# g" D! I/ vAuditor 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.; I( O. a& G+ ~9 O6 I
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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.
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.1 ~% H8 i, B: H& M7 F) O
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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, l- b6 M, U* |& w+ K' xThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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! [9 u( P V& H+ RThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.% I3 g7 p: ~1 \. C
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.( }% E, Z' R6 d1 c+ y1 F. ~. h
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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' w& `" I" {- d9 X7 ^/ _MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.' p2 v) K- s+ y
( }- ^5 C& q5 y' b& aThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.9 q+ q+ o7 u |
" R; p/ G0 ^$ _“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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: B# ~9 F: @+ A; w+ PMacDonald 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.& U6 ]4 n, \9 x& e# F' q
/ |1 m/ B$ S5 VATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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