Daniel Pinto, a co-founder of the New City Initiative, a campaign to promote better corporate governance, blames (institutional) investors for being too much focused on short-term moves in share prices (The Times, February 3 2014). The problem as I see it is that just one more 'initiative' will at best bring a marginal improvement - and even that at a glacial pace. Lack of coordination among all the proponents of better corporate governance - and lack of accountability linking major investment fiduciaries and the real investors, i.e. the man on the street - are the main obstacles to a real change in corporate governance.
(4 Feb 2014)
As John noted last week, the new T+1 settlement cycle commenced last
Tuesday and we did not end up in any sort of post-Y2K dystopian world. In
fact, the mo...
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