By Lew Daly “In this election season, reining in Wall Street is clearly a burning issue for many voters. The passion for Wall Street reform is closely wrapped up with working class anger and anxiety driven by wage stagnation and…
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Recognition of AIR research, opinions, and people in the media and elsewhere
Shareholder proposals to exclude the impact of buybacks from exec comp metrics – will they become a trend?
By Cydney Posner “A recurring demand by hedge fund activists is that the target company return capital to its shareholders by buying back its own stock. Data compiled by S&P and Bloomberg shows that companies in the S&P 500 spent 95% of…
Paul Ryan just now realized he was ignorant about poverty
By Lynn Parramore “From the lips of Paul Ryan, Chief Spokesman of Blame-the-Poor politics, came a curious mea culpa just last week: He should not have referred to hard-working Americans trying to feed their families as “takers.” Oops!”… [Click HERE…
Stock buybacks stay popular despite criticism
By Luc Olinga “Confronted with a sluggish global economy, US companies have settled on a controversial tool that rewards shareholders and executives: share buybacks. First permitted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission in 1982, the use of share buybacks has…
Stock buybacks stay popular despite criticism
By Luc Olinga “Confronted with a sluggish global economy, US companies have settled on a controversial tool that rewards shareholders and executives: share buybacks. First permitted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission in 1982, the use of share buybacks…
Village of Brokaw lends its name to hedge fund bill
By Nora G. Hertel “The village of Brokaw could become the namesake of a federal policy seeking to curb the influence of outside investors who profit off struggling businesses. The Brokaw Act is inspired by and named after the village, which has…
Five stock poised to benefit from buybacks
By Steve Smith “Seven years into the bull market and there is only one main buyer that’s still driving up stock prices. We know individual investors still bear the scars of the financial crisis, and despite witnessing the major indices…
Five stock poised to benefit from buybacks
By Steve Smith “Seven years into the bull market and there is only one main buyer that’s still driving up stock prices. We know individual investors still bear the scars of the financial crisis, and despite witnessing the major indices…
High valuations on pharma stocks and high drug prices not justified
By Kevin Wilson “Wall Street has long had a love affair with biotechnology and pharma stocks, and their prices have soared in recent years. Profit growth has been tremendous in some cases, but not always because of good returns on…
Hillary’s Wall Street-friendly economic plan costs her Michigan
By Les Leopold “Billed as a major populist economic address, Hillary Clinton put forth her jobs program in Michigan. Wall Street is smiling. Team Hillary is crying.”… [Click HERE to read the full article]
