… in its quarterly “flow of funds” report on Thursday, the Federal Reserve sharply revised its estimates of how much cash companies are holding on…
The Associated Press surveyed CEOs of the S&P 500, including their gross pay for 2011. They released the list of the highest paid CEOs this morning.
This factors in salary, perks, bonuses and all stock options and awards. The biggest gainer in the top…
Short-term corporate thinking has been blamed for many of America’s economic ills.
With little foresight beyond next year, management sometimes closes down plants and fudges accounting to make this year’s earnings look better and boost the stock price.
Often, it is simply because management is excessively rewarded by short-term incentives such as stock options.
While investors might benefit from these shenanigans in the short-run, a new study points out the long-term effects are frequently negative.
A new Harvard Business School study entitled “Short-termism, Investor Clientele and Firm Risk” has shown that short-termism is bad for investors increasing their risks without any corresponding increase in returns.
In other words, risk and the short-term thinking usually go hand in hand.
Breaking Down the Conference Call
The study used a very interesting method to find out which companies are short-term oriented or more risky.
Some years ago when I was doing some serious Russian language searching, Yandex was the only search engine that produced anything useful.
Russian internet firm eyes £1 billion IPO
Yandex, Russia (OMXR.EX – news) ‘s largest internet firm according t…
Why is everyone so overweight? I don’t think that fat guy wincing in pain got his flat screen TV. Not even sure what year this stoopid thing came from but people are idiots. Bunch of morons. Mixed signals. From everything I have heard the sheep m…