02 September 2017
The world's biggest investors rebelled more at company meetings globally this year compared with last year, as asset managers came under mounting pressure to tackle businesses over high pay, board diversity and bad management.
17 August 2017
By many measurements, today’s stock markets are overvalued. Yet amid the flood of central bank money, investors are struggling to work out when or if a crash will come and have rationalised the high prices.
24 May 2017
"High and unwarranted executive pay is an issue that needs to be addressed for the benefit of society as a whole." So said the
12 May 2017
Ahead of this year's shareholder meeting season, investors predicted more fiery and confrontational exchanges than in previous years, as they prepared to take a stand against high executive pay.
19 March 2017
The acquisition of Fortress, the US asset manager, for
13 February 2017
Several of the world's most powerful shareholders are planning to take even tougher action on excessive bonuses for company bosses in 2017 after investor protests over executive pay reached a five-year high last year.
13 February 2017
Twitter is a broad church. Its congregation includes autocratically inclined presidents sounding off to millions, and friends indulging in online banter. It should not come as a shock, then, that one pew is occupied by evangelists for a radically different ownership model.
12 February 2017
03 December 2016
Politicians have threatened to clamp down on business behaviour and boardroom pay for decades
28 November 2016
20 November 2016
The Hunger Games, the do-or-die series of teenage films, may be a model for corporate succession planning, according to some of
16 November 2016
The company that is changing driving owns no cars; the one that has the hotel industry on the run owns no rooms. Such are the standard tributes to the radical business models of Uber and Airbnb. Something else they lack, despite putative valuations of