This is the event of the year for the Association and certainly one of the key events for
the financial community in Singapore, as it honours and recognizes those public listed
companies which have demonstrated exemplary Corporate Governance and Transparency
practices throughout the year. In total, the annual awards are: the Singapore Corporate
Governance Award, the Most Transparent Company Award, Financial Journalist
Award and Best Retail Broker Award. This year, SIAS together with The Institute of Internal Auditors Singapore (IIAS) and Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, Singapore Management University (SKBI, SMU) will be launching the Inaugural Internal Audit Excellence Award.

Endorsement & Support

SIAS Investors’ Choice Awards have received endorsement and support from Singapore
Exchange (SGX), Standard & Poors’ (for Singapore Corporate Governance Award),
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Singapore Institute of Directors (SID), Institute of Chartered &
Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS), NUS Business School – Corporate Governance
and Financial Reporting Centre (for Singapore Corporate Governance Award), Securities
Association of Singapore (SAS), Investment Management Association of Singapore (IMAS),
Business Times, Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao and Chartered Financial Analyst Singapore
(CFA).

Participation

This event is graced by senior officials in the Stock Exchange and Monetary Authority of
Singapore, senior corporate leaders, leaders from the securities and finance industries, the
academia, institutional and retail and high net-worth investors and the local and foreign
media. About 1,000 guests are again expected as in the previous years to grace the occasion.

Some of the previous guests-of-honour include The Late Hon’ble Casper Weinberger,
former US Defense Secretary (Under President Reagan), 2001, Lee Hsien Loong,
DPM, Chairman, MAS, 2000, Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam, Former DPM, Co-ordinating
Minister for Security and Defence, 2003, Mr J.Y.Pillay, Chairman, Singapore
Exchange, 2003, Mohd Yusli Mohammad, CEO, Bursa Malaysia, 2004, Mr Hsieh Fu
Hua, CEO, Singapore Exchange, 2005 and Dato’ Dr. Ng Yen Yen, Deputy Minister
of Finance Malaysia, 2006, Mrs Lim Hwee Hua, Minister of State for Finance and
Transport, 2007, Mr S Iswaran, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Trade &
Industry, 2008 and Minister for Finance, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, 2009.

Media Coverage

This is a media event covered by both the print and broadcast media like BT, ST, LHZB, CNBC,
CNA, BBC, financial magazines like Pulses, Forbes, Business Week and other local financial
magazines are also invited.

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