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Meanwhile, Italy, now under the watchful eye of the International Monetary Fund, needs to move ahead with those pro-growth reforms in order to reassure the ECB’s shareholders that the central bank’s bond purchases are not money losers.
Not so in Europe, where the interests of a company's employees and their unions often come before those of its shareholders.
Many European firms have complex ownership structures, with large shareholders whose interests often conflict with those of the company - hardly the best way to take sound business decisions.
The Fund’s shareholders would have to agree to incur those costs.
If Greece cannot repay its debt, ESM shareholders will suffer a loss; and that risk is not priced into the interest rate Greece pays.
But, so far, the ESM has continuously posted profits, and any loss it does suffer will be spread among all shareholders – including, for example, Italy.
On the contrary, the Target system is essentially a collective insurance scheme: if a national central bank were to default, the loss would be shared among all ECB shareholders.
Moreover, given that organizations with more women in management achieve a 35% higher return on equity and 34% better total return to shareholders than their counterparts, greater gender parity would be a boon for the sector.
They should also strengthen the rights of minority shareholders and outside directors to prevent expropriation by founding families.
Corporate leaders must deliver for their shareholders, and shouldn’t bother themselves too much with what happens to the rest of society.
The fundamental purpose of drug companies is to produce profits for shareholders.
There are also massive agency problems in the financial system, because principals (such as shareholders) cannot properly monitor the actions of agents (CEOs, managers, traders, bankers) that pursue their own interest.
Moreover, the problem is not just that long-term shareholders are shafted by greedy short-term agents; even the shareholders have agency problems.
If financial institutions do not have enough capital, and shareholders don’t have enough of their own skin in the game, they will push CEOs and bankers to take on too much leverage and risks, because their own net worth is not at stake.
At the same time, there is a double agency problem, as the ultimate shareholders – individual shareholders – don’t directly control boards and CEOs.
These shareholders are represented by institutional investors (pension funds, etc.) whose interests, agendas, and cozy relationships often align them more closely with firms’ CEOs and managers.
Workers in the host country, such as software technicians and call-center operators, clearly benefit from BPO, but so do shareholders and company owners (whose profits grow) and consumers (who pay lower prices).
Rating agencies and shareholders are nervous when they hear that a stricter regulatory environment is not necessarily a disadvantage.
Shouldn’t shareholders take more of an interest?
Shareholders seem to take little interests in pay policy.
One answer is that European governments are large shareholders in the Fund.
And it requires IMF management to demonstrate that it can consistently make decisions based on program countries’ economic interest, not on the political preferences of powerful national shareholders.
As minority shareholders in firms whose managers are appointed by the Central Personnel Ministry, private actors cannot influence decision-making.
Only a few state-owned companies file International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) accounts and many have large numbers of subsidiaries, which can dilute benefits to shareholders, while offering opportunities for managers and other connected parties to enrich themselves.
That is a difficult challenge, because civil society organizations with the greatest interest in learning how to cope with the new pressures tend to specialize in specific development areas, such as the Millennium Development Goals, or sectoral issues, rather than having a broader view of how development finance institutions and their big shareholders operate.
Their activities, they proclaim, are aimed not just at maximizing profits for shareholders, but also at creating a better future for their workers, the communities in which they work, and the world more generally.
Higher leverage allows bankers to earn more money, but it can easily become excessive for shareholders – because it makes the banks more vulnerable to collapse – and it is terrible for taxpayers and all citizens, as they face massive downside costs.
The Fight for Shareholder Rights in RussiaMOSCOW: Abuse of shareholders by managers and majority owners cripples foreign investment in Russia.
No surprise, then, that improving corporate governance and protecting minority shareholders is becoming a concern of the Putin government.
Refusing shareholders entry to shareholders meetings, or striking their names off share registers – two popular gimmicks of a few years ago – are rarer nowadays.
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