Ownership, activism and engagement: Institutional investors as active owners

T McNulty, D Nordberg - Corporate Governance: An …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Manuscript Type Conceptual Research Question/Issue We research two questions:
First, why do some institutional investors operate at a distance from organizations seemingly …

Short-termism, the financial crisis, and corporate governance

LL Dallas - J. Corp. l., 2011 - HeinOnline
The financial crisis of 2007-2009 was preceded by a period of financial firms 1 seeking short-
term profit regardless of long-term consequences. 2 Numerous market participants engaged …

The uneasy case for favoring long-term shareholders

JM Fried - Yale LJ, 2014 - HeinOnline
This Article questions a persistent and pervasive view about the proper objective of
corporate governance: that managers should favor long-term shareholders over short-term …

What's wrong with today's economics? The current crisis calls for an approach to economics rooted more on data than on rationality

SM Focardi, FJ Fabozzi - The Journal of Portfolio …, 2012 - jpm.pm-research.com
Focardi and Fabozzi argue that current mainstream economics is not a science in the sense
of the physical sciences, and they draw some conclusions from the point of view of asset …

An Impressionistic View of the'Real'Price of Gold Around the World

CB Erb, CR Harvey - Available at SSRN 2148691, 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
The “real” price of gold in the US is historically high, relative to its history as an actively
tradable asset. But what about the real price of gold in other countries? It turns out that, in …

[BOOK][B] Rational investing: the subtleties of asset management

H Langlois, J Lussier - 2017 - degruyter.com
THIS BOOK IS ABOUT bridging the gap between simplicity and complexity in asset
management. It is about providing nonprofessional investors with an understanding of what …

The political economy of finance and regulatory capture: Evidence from the US Congress

F Silano - 2023 - econstor.eu
The 2007-08 Global Financial Crisis is a watershed phenomenon that reshaped global
capitalism. Stemming from the argument that the Crisis was caused by deregulation, this …

Healthcare Sector Mutual Fund Returns: Using a Pragmatically Adopted Mutual Fund Evaluation Technique

MC Lafond - 2017 - search.proquest.com
A shift from the defined benefit plan to the defined contribution plan requires retirement
savers to self-manage their mutual fund portfolios within tax-deferred retirement plans. Many …