All of this contributes to shareholder value".
Domestic pension funds and insurance companies, which occasionally did act as a brake on management, now own only 20% of the market, compared with 50% as recently as in 1991; foreign investors own 40%.Meanwhile, the modern emphasis on high-frequency trading (computers swapping shares with each other every millisecond) hardly contributes to shareholder engagement.
It is important to understand how corporate management evaluates potential investments and how a new or expanded plant contributes to ultimate shareholder value.
More importantly, she fails to explain how a single foreign shareholder in any way "contributes" to or "makes" a political expenditure when a corporation of which she owns a small fraction does so.
Bellevue-based truck manufacturer PACCAR engages in no voluntary disclosure--not even to tell shareholders whether the firm contributes to campaigns or not.
The setback, known as JPMorgan's "London Whale," contributed to an unsuccessful shareholder campaign last year to separate the jobs of chairman and CEO — duties that Dimon still holds.
The old orthodoxy and its concomitant allegiance to shareholder value have contributed in no small way to the current economic disorder, and so if we are to bring much-needed change to the way business is practiced, we must change the way it is taught.
He agreed to a one-time payment of $20.7 million, not $27.7 million over a decade, to settle state and federal accusations that the Summitville gold mine, run by a company in which he was a large shareholder, contributed to pollution of a nearby river.
She adopted it, to shareholder applause.
Jeffrey M. Kaplan, a lawyer at Kaplan & Walker in Princeton, N.J., said: "In a case of a regulator contributing to misrepresentations made to shareholders, you could have individual criminal liability.
In addition, Lord St. John said, "interventions" by executives of the News Corporation contributed to the unease of shareholders.
