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: ...

And why would you want to do that? This is shareholder capitalism. The other part of the idea was that you need one firm metric to hold management to account. It’s tough for dispersed ...

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 ...

He said we've developed a "religion" of shareholder capitalism over the last 35 to 40 years and almost all the gains go to the "tippy top." Blodget made clear it's not terrible for people to be at ...

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 ...

The letter comes after increasing pushback to shareholder primacy in the last few years — a trend that Business Insider has been covering in our Better Capitalism series, and that has been ...

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.

Why? Well, the combination of the two constitute a violent regulatory swing that reallocates power away from shareholders and toward corporate insiders. Like Musk, conveniently. The story of ...

Central to Puzder’s account of the attempt to destroy shareholder capitalism is the role of the Big Three asset managers — BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), whose ...