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Their speculative frenzies ruined shareholders, customers, and the economy.
These countries understand the dangers of climate change, as do ExxonMobil’s global shareholders, who, just this week, rejected that company’s attempts to ignore the impact of climate change on its business.
The bankers’ pursuit of self-interest (greed) did not lead to the well-being of society; it did not even serve their shareholders and bondholders well.
If managers had to choose between fulfilling the expectations of shareholders and meeting their social and ethical responsibilities, their companies would probably collapse.
But it can be very difficult when the demands of, say, the company’s shareholders conflict with the interests of its employees, customers, or local communities.
Only when a company has gained the public’s confidence – its “license to operate” – can its management create long-term value for all stakeholders, including shareholders.
Indeed, managers’ irresponsible focus on advancing shareholders’ immediate interests, thereby maximizing their own bonuses, contributed significantly to bringing the global financial system to the brink of collapse in 2008.
Clearly, Putin wants to end this robbery of state assets, and minority shareholders are up in arms, but the insatiable Abramovich wants Gazprom, and Voloshin yearns to become its next CEO.
Splendid, but the Meltzer Commission would shrink the World Bank, returning unused capital to shareholders – a major resource transfer to the rich.
And we have done all of this with nearly a 300% return over ten years and a 19% return on equity, demonstrating that it is possible to employ a development-focused agenda that delivers for shareholders and stakeholders.
And, when they do get it, the state cannot possibly know that reinvesting in the same enterprise will be more beneficial than, say, paying out dividends that shareholders could then use to finance a new venture.
The late Indian management guru C.K. Prahalad suggested in his bestselling book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid that businesses could make healthy profits by serving the poor – and so satisfy their shareholders while promoting social development.
Increased resolution authority will help, but only a little: in the last crisis, US government “blinked,” failed to use the powers that it had, and needlessly bailed out shareholders and bondholders – all because it feared that doing otherwise would lead to economic trauma.
Through pension funds, investment funds, and arbitrage (or hedge) funds, shareholders became well organized and seized power in developed countries’ firms.
Failure to do so leads, over time, to terminal organizational weakness, owing to lost credibility amongst employees, shareholders, customers, and communities.
Aberdeen Asset Management and Royal London Asset Management were among a group of shareholders who strongly objected to BP’s proposed 20% increase in compensation for CEO Bob Dudley in a year when BP made record losses, and they joined 59% of investors in rejecting the package.
Similarly, 54% of Renault SA’s shareholders, which include the French state, opposed CEO Carlos Ghosn’s €25 million ($28 million) remuneration package at the company’s AGM in April.
But these cases go beyond the companies robbed and the shareholders betrayed.
Similarly, it might help to have accounting firms be selected by minority shareholders or paid by the stock exchange, rather than by a company itself.
As active, engaged shareholders, institutional investors can use their ownership (and, in the case of large investors, their public voice) to help persuade companies to adopt climate-safe policies.
In practice, this would mean that transactions between a listed SOE and the state would not be subject to the approval of minority shareholders.
A listed SOE could therefore continue to perform social obligations unrelated to its core business, with shareholders unable to interfere.
In any case, if listed SOEs are included in global indexes, investors would be exposed to companies that can transact with their government owners, without consulting other shareholders.
While it may seem excessive to require the Saudi government, which owns 95% of Aramco, to consult with the remaining shareholders, an LSE Premium Listing usually requires just 25% equity.
Large public corporations are less common in most developing economies than they are in developed economies; but for those firms that do regularly distribute dividends in developing economies, payouts to shareholders have been increasing, even when profitability has remained roughly the same.
In this context, “resolution” means that a bank’s managers are fired, shareholders are wiped out, and unsecured creditors can suffer losses.
In any case, new SDR allocations require the support of 85% of votes within the IMF’s board, which appears unachievable in the foreseeable future, as major shareholders are opposed.
As shareholders’ equity is the only real buffer against losses in these corporations, this means that a 4% decline in their assets’ value would completely wipe out their shareholders – taking the companies to the brink of insolvency.
The decisions made in that room have an impact beyond the company, so it is not just shareholders who hold board members accountable for their choices.
If AT&T had to be a monopoly, it had to be a monopoly that benefited society at large, not just its shareholders, through breakthrough research.
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