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大笔投资不赚钱
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被政府调查质询4 w& x6 n0 w# j. Q1 ~, b: e
这个纳税人拥有的银行
* k4 J3 c3 A. D1 F' ]07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
7 @! G% e, U7 f ^+ Y却用2600万给员工发奖金: k# E% B8 X# r6 d5 z
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
- K$ W8 b% R% |06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万' y4 G# P, \5 J( ^. S
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.% p% C0 H _7 S( @/ V ~" c$ z
9 Q' d& S; G+ R. Q/ b) ~6 kLiberal 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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) \9 H2 S# Z) xAuditor 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 $262 million target.' Q" @2 X$ `1 j+ Z ?* ]
9 ^, a4 R8 V N) {2 U! EIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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7 j" Y5 ^# u) D9 _, OThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.; ^8 [( y/ s! F7 ~0 j% U
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.. H1 F* T- F+ l2 E, z" m4 ~; X$ c
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.5 m- T9 @' N/ _1 k `7 E: H
' c5 O( ?( Y$ N7 |1 i r& z“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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9 v! q+ c }; O/ ZMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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! {5 {" f( \7 N! D; d2 h2 lThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.; Y! Z/ m8 h* e( D9 J
. q4 C- g l6 B; n! A“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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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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ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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