After spending too many years trying to signal their virtue, companies are focusing once again on returns to investors.

The story of corporate governance over the past three decades has been the growth of the institutional investor. As retail money gushed into mutual funds, a formerly dispersed and pretty passive ...

You probably expect your investments to be put to work -- for you. However, that might not always be the case. Explore More: ...

Writing shortly before President Trump’s return to the White House, Peter Thiel hailed the election as an apokálypsis, an ...

In the Trump era, the 2019 US Business Round Table departure from maximizing shareholder value is looking like a bad bet.

rewarding a narrow group of shareholders with dividends and stock buybacks. Why are young Americans so skeptical about capitalism? In a recent (2022) Pew Research poll, only 40% of 18-to-29 year ...

But the wearing of the SDG badge, in Japan at least, does seem to confer membership of an undeclared club: the one that will try to do shareholder capitalism the Japanese way for as long as is ...

A group of 14 companies in the natural-products industry is coming together this week to join the Purpose Pledge, a nine-month pilot program that aims to ...

Oxfam reported that over the past two years nearly 800 million workers around the world saw their wages fail to keep up with ...

and favor monopolistic practices may deliver immediate stock market gains but undermine the social fabric upon which sustainable capitalism depends. To move beyond shareholder primacy, we must ...

The notion that shareholders are all that should matter ... Eventually, true to the spirit of capitalism, an industry of DEI consultants, marketers and HR professionals sprang up.

Fundamental to the success of shareholder capitalism is the alignment of investors’ financial interests with the success of the businesses they’re shareholders in, which in turn drives ...