Boardroom Agenda
U.S. Banks’ $100 Billion Legal Tab for Financial Crisis Exceeds Combined Profit
The six biggest U.S. banks, led by JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp., have piled up $103 billion in legal costs since the financial crisis, more than all dividends paid to ...
How Activist Investors Are Taking Executives’ Scalps at Big Companies
Activist investors from Carl Icahn to Daniel Loeb and Bill Ackman are ratcheting up their campaigns, increasingly targeting America's biggest companies and seeking the ouster of chief executive ...
Nasdaq Shutdown Forces SEC’s White Into Fight With Market Perils
A three-hour shutdown of the Nasdaq Stock Market marks the first test of Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Jo White's ability to push through stronger technology safeguards for ...
Warren Buffett’s Pension Fund Management Advice: Saft Column
Here is Warren Buffett's pension fund management advice in a nutshell: Be patient, buy only a few things, ignore the stock market until it becomes irrationally optimistic, at which point sell. A ...
Corporate Risk-Taking Unrelated to Top Exec Pay at Banks
Cutting or regulating the paychecks of top executives won't avert future economic crises and recessions because the source of corporate risk taking and fraud typically emerges from non-executive ...
Family-Run Companies Deliver Better Returns
Investors seeking less volatile returns from their stock portfolios are turning their attention to family-owned firms that play for pride as well as profit. In the wake of the 2007-09 financial ...
AIG Expands D&O Side A Capacity to $100M
American International Group, Inc. announced Thursday that it is now offering globally up to $100 million in limits for Side A directors and officers liability insurance. Side A insurance responds ...
Best-Paid Women in S&P 500 Settle for Less with 18% Gender Gap
Even the few women who've managed to advance to the C-suite don't get equal pay. Last year, of the five best-paid executives at each of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index companies, 198 were women, ...