By Rex Nutting “There’s something seriously wrong with an economy that nurtures a few billionaires but can’t sustain the middle class. Many factors have been blamed for the plummeting fortunes of the American middle class: globalization, technology, deregulation, easy credit,…
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The one issue Elizabeth Warren and some of Wall Street can agree on
By Portia Crowe “It doesn’t sound very sexy, but stock buybacks could become the next big issue in Congress – and on the Street. Some Democratic senators have started pointing to buybacks, in which publicly traded companies repurchase some of…
Multiple companies of concern
By Rosanna Landis Weaver “Multiple Companies of Concern Our primary focus with the blog this year is looking at the 100 companies that appeared on our overpaid list in our report, but the overpaid companies from last year are not necessarily…
Clinton’s executive pay comments show we’re still too focused on fairness
By Susan Holmberg “Hillary Clinton surprised many progressives earlier this week with her remarks on a model populist issue. “There’s something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker. There’s something wrong when American workers keep getting more productive…but that…
Clinton’s executive pay comments show we’re still too focused on fairness
By Susan Holmberg “Hillary Clinton surprised many progressives earlier this week with her remarks on a model populist issue. “There’s something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker. There’s something wrong when American workers keep getting more productive…but that…
Efforts to reform executive compensation follow the law of unintended consequences
By Cydney Posner “Remember how “say on pay” was supposed to put the lid on soaring executive pay? And just how has that turned out? According to a study conducted by ISS affiliates, (reported in Compliance Week ) the average compensation package…
Maximising shareholder value all the way to zero
By Ann Crotty “A meeting of high-profile investors and corporate executives held recently in New York heard from one CEO how the structure of his remuneration would allow him to make more in a few years than in his whole…
R100bn. splurge on share buybacks
By Ann Crotty “SA firms are major players in the global buyback mania, which, some say, is fed by executive greed. Nicolene Wesson is a changed woman. Gone is the haunted look that has clouded her face for much of…
On the unfinished business of financial reform
By Elizabeth Warren “Thank you all for being here today. We’re here to ask a critical question at a critical time: what are we to make of Dodd-Frank five years later? To answer that question, I think we should start…
At General Electric company, workers struggle to find footing as shareholders reap windfalls
By Owen Davis “General Electric’s decision to close its capacitor plant in upstate New York came as a shock to Mark Rock, 43, a 10-year veteran on the assembly line. “Honestly, I didn’t believe it because I’d heard it was…
