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These findings have intrigued firms, investors, and corporate-governance experts ever since they were made public, and have led shareholder advisers to develop governance-based investment products.
That law prevents any shareholder who controls more than 20% of voting shares in Volkswagenwerk GmbH (VW) from casting more than 20% of the votes in a shareholders' meeting.
It also decrees that a majority of more than 80% of shareholder votes is required for important decisions in the company.
Consider Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal, the second-largest shareholder of Fox News’s parent company.
They buy Russian stocks, but only for the sizeable dividend yields – not for shareholder influence.
Managers’ increased focus on maximizing shareholder value won many adherents when the idea was introduced in the 1980’s: the impersonal discipline of financial markets would force companies to become more productive and innovative.
Moreover, because maximizing shareholder value is a poor incentive for workers and middle managers, companies’ boards have increasingly centralized power around chief executives, thereby encouraging a “heroic” form of leadership that is detached from the rest of the enterprise.
An executive’s inability to cash out shares and options for a substantial period would tie his or her payoff to long-term shareholder value.
The following day, the corporate lawyer Martin Lipton, a longstanding critic of shareholder activists, released a memo entitled “The New Paradigm for Corporate Governance.”
Reducing the face value of mortgages and providing the upside – in case home prices were to rise in the long run – to the creditor banks is another way to convert mortgage debt partly into shareholder equity.
If a shareholder dislikes, say, how GM’s directors are running the company (and, in the 1980’s and 1990’s, they were running it into the ground), she is free to nominate new directors, but she must pay their hefty elections costs, and should expect that no one, particularly not GM, will ever reimburse her.
Firms and their managers are subject to competitive markets and other constraints, but not to shareholder authority.
Under the agreement, which US President Barack Obama’s administration shepherded through tough negotiations, America would remain the IMF’s largest single shareholder, retaining its veto over major decisions.
Over the longer term, however, the upward trend in dividends and share buybacks as a percentage of corporate investable funds is a symptom of mounting shareholder pressure on corporations to focus on short-term returns at the expense of long-term investments.
In a recent McKinsey survey of 1,000 top executives and corporate directors, 63% reported that shareholder pressure to realize short-term returns has increased over the last several years.
In France, a law adopted in 2005 requires that severance pay for company managers now be subject to a shareholder vote, and the EADS scandal has spurred consideration of further legal changes.
The second mutation stems from excessive shareholder dominance, which has been on the rise for more than three decades.
Now, the Bank should make some other important shifts: It should reframe its mission and undertake new tasks, while its biggest shareholder, the United States, should rethink its role in the organization.
Although equitable shareholding was not China’s preferred route, it did not force the matter.By contrast, China is the AIIB’s largest shareholder by a wide margin, holding a 26.6% stake, compared to India’s 7.7% and Russia’s 6%.
By contrast, China is the AIIB’s largest shareholder by a wide margin, holding a 26.6% stake, compared to India’s 7.7% and Russia’s 6%.
The worry is that China, as the AIIB’s largest shareholder and contributor, will dominate the bank and distort its decision-making.
Effectively, society becomes a shareholder in every corporation, and the dividends are distributed evenly to all citizens.
According to a directive issued in 1989, “An insider is one who, due to his relationship to the company as manager, director, employee, or major shareholder, possesses inside information (material non-public facts) and knowingly uses such inside information to acquire or dispose of securities to which the information relates for his own account or another.”
According to a recent analysis by GOVERN (of which I am Managing Director), the state is a significant shareholder in 89 of the region’s 100 largest listed firms – and a majority shareholder in 34.
The average holding duration for each shareholder is three years.
European banks have been operating on a great deal of debt and very little shareholder capital – the essential buffer against potential losses.
We are emerging from a period when companies, under pressure to meet shareholder expectations, favored profitability and growth, even if it meant taking undue risks and losing public confidence.
In 2003, Rosneft became an oil giant by grabbing most of Yukos, after that oil firm’s head and chief shareholder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was arbitrarily prosecuted and imprisoned for embezzlement and tax evasion.
Those who take advantage of the current ethical fugue for personal or shareholder gain will have to answer for it when the political pendulum swings back to sanity.
Trust-busters argue that such “Chinese walls” always break down under pressure, owing to huge shareholder demand for universal banks to boost profits at the expense of a sound commercial banking core.
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