Corporate Political Speech is Bad for Shareholders

They cite the need to deliver high returns for shareholders, implying that tighter regulations undermine shareholders interests.

Protection of shareholders

No Shareholders Spring

In many but by no means all countries, the primary corporate objective is to maximize the long term return to shareholders (shareholder value).

The police, for example, claimed that the company declared that their major shareholders accounted only for 64 percent of the company's shareholders, but that, in reality, the major shareholders at Seibu actually owned 88 percent of the company's shares.

Direct injury to shareholders

Should Shareholders Be Kings?

You'll be a member of a democratically controlled investment opportunity who's primary role, after return to investors, shareholders, members, is returned to the community.

In a financial restructuring, shareholders typically get wiped out, and bondholders become the new shareholders.

The alternative may be too expensive for shareholders and citizens alike.

Growth is demanded by shareholders.

That's what the shareholders own.

The fundamental purpose of drug companies is to produce profits for shareholders.

Don t confuse saving bankers and shareholders with saving banks. America could have saved its banks, but let the shareholders go, for far less than it has spent.

Draft article 11 Protection of shareholders

So we'll all be equal shareholders.

Last night. An emergency shareholders meeting.

Major shareholders such as institutional investors should not have privileged access to information that is unavailable to minority shareholders.

Draft article 12 Direct injury to shareholders

Well, ownership gives voting rights to shareholders.

Well, ownership gives voting rights to shareholders.

Such managers can be expected to use their influence to obtain and maintain rules that weaken the rights of dispersed shareholders and make it difficult for shareholders to replace them.

In this situation, without safeguards for minority shareholders, the latter group may be adversely affected.

Thus, around 4  of Latvia's inhabitants are shareholders.

How will this affect the next shareholders' meeting?

In the past, bank executives bonuses were often based on accounting measures that are of interest primarily to common shareholders, such as return on equity or earnings per common share.

In such countries, rules are supposed to limit the controlling shareholders power to advance their interests at the expense of minority shareholders.

At the same time, there is a double agency problem, as the ultimate shareholders individual shareholders don t directly control boards and CEOs.

In the interest of protecting minority shareholders, the principle of equality of disclosure should be practiced, such that all shareholders receive information equally.

5 reward for return...

For banks and their shareholders, it looks a case of heads they win, tails we lose.

Shareholders seem to take little interests in pay policy.

Don t confuse saving bankers and shareholders with saving banks.

Their speculative frenzies ruined shareholders, customers, and the economy.

But the shareholders of Arcelor have made their choice.

This information is of particular interest to minority shareholders.

I'm not selling laptops. OK? I have no shareholders.

And we do have an obligation to our shareholders.

That assumption would be valid only if the municipal law of the State gave foreign shareholders unreasonably weaker rights than those granted to national shareholders.

Diamond apparently forgot that the continued existence of any bank with a balance sheet that is large relative to its home economy and its ability to earn a return for shareholders depends entirely on maintaining a good relationship with regulators.

The common shareholders in financial firms do not have an incentive to induce executives to take into account the losses that risks can impose on preferred shareholders, bondholders, depositors, and taxpayers. Consequently, governance improvements that make directors more focused on shareholder interests cannot be relied on to tie executive payoffs to the interests of shareholders and non shareholders alike.

This makes it more worthwhile for businesses to invest in expanding their capacity, thus trading away cash they could distribute to their shareholders today for a better market position that will allow them to reward their shareholders in the future.

a return for the insolent ,

I longed for your return.