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The Motley Fool April 12, 2004 Salim Haji |
Higher Pay and Lower Taxes Results from two new studies: corporate CEOs continue to get pay raises, and most corporations pay little or no taxes. |
The Motley Fool May 2, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Insane CEO Pay As investors, it can often be sobering to take a hard look at management compensation information in a company's proxy materials. Should shareholders say enough's enough? |
The Motley Fool May 28, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
CEO Pay: It Just Makes No Sense Let's let the laws of supply and demand work. |
The Motley Fool April 15, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
CEOs: Do the Right Thing! 2008 was a bad year for shareholders and workers. Some CEOs made out like bandits, though. |
The Motley Fool April 2, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
The Truth About CEO Compensation While CEOs fulfill very important roles, they should remember that they are employees, too. They must answer to shareholders, instead of their own greed and hubris. |
The Motley Fool April 14, 2004 Bill Mann |
Did Buffett Say "I Don't Sell"? A reader picks up a seeming contradiction from the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffet. |
The Motley Fool May 28, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Conflicts of Interest Linger Many CFOs may not know enough accounting to do their jobs right. |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2005 Rich Smith |
Stupid CEO Tricks When it comes to executive compensation, you don't always get what you pay for. If your company is too busy making its CEO rich to make you rich, then it might be time to find a better investment. |
The Motley Fool April 18, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
11 Companies Rewarding Failure Investors, take a closer look at compensation, and ask yourself whether the CEOs of the companies you own are earning your respect and confidence -- or just earning more than they deserve. |
Entrepreneur February 2009 Chris Penttila |
CEO Salaries in the Crosshairs Pay-for-performance structures are enjoying a resurgence. |
Job Journal February 25, 2007 Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros:Sports Stars Can't Compete with Overpaid CEOs Can America bring it's high-flying CEOs down to earth? |
BusinessWeek April 18, 2005 Louis Lavelle |
A Payday For Performance Compensation is less outrageous this year, except for CEOs who delivered. Our survey of 367 CEO pay packages showed that: Total CEO pay was up smartly, to an average $9.6 million... CEO raises and total pay once again dwarfed those of the average worker... etc. |
The Motley Fool July 21, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
CEOs Fail Candor Test Companies with CEOs who are up front with shareholders may outperform others. Here are some firms that fared well. |
The Motley Fool March 8, 2004 Bill Mann |
Warren Buffett: World's Greatest Sandbagger Berkshire's performance in 2003 was magnificent. Bill Mann reviews the letter from the chairman. Each year, Warren Buffett puts pen to paper to tell Berkshire Hathaway shareholders exactly what he thinks about his company's performance over the past year. |
The Motley Fool September 27, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Big, Beefy Billionaires Every single one of those names wouldn't be on the list if it wasn't for the stock market. Public opinion ultimately priced their companies. |
The Motley Fool December 3, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
A Modest Proposal to Reduce CEO Pay Let's have some Dutch auctions for CEO jobs. |
The Motley Fool July 9, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
Lunch: $25,000 Per Person Warren Buffett helps the needy in San Francisco. |
The Motley Fool November 6, 2007 Morgan Housel |
Is Your CEO Worth It? Knowing what the head honcho does behind the scenes makes a big difference to investors. |
Knowledge@Wharton May 21, 2003 |
Do Shareholders Have the Clout to Rein in Excessive Executive Pay? What can/should be done about extravagant pay packages for CEOs and other executives, which sometimes result in huge pay increases even while the stock is falling? |
The Motley Fool January 8, 2007 Rich Duprey |
Is CEO Pay Really Out of Whack? Their companies' performance may be faltering, but CEOs' pay packages sure aren't. Is this a new era of corporate greed? What does it mean to shareholders? |
HBS Working Knowledge September 13, 2006 Jay W. Lorsch |
Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do Compensation committees are under pressure to keep CEO pay high, even as shareholders and the media agitate for moderation. The solution? Boards of directors need better competitive information and an ear to what shareholders are saying. |
The Motley Fool November 17, 2010 Alyce Lomax |
More Signs of Inflation: CEO Paychecks? CEOs could be making more than ever -- or not. |
The Motley Fool July 26, 2011 Brian Stoffel |
Invest With These CEOs Who Only Earn $1 Here are three CEOs who have decided to buck the trend, working for a yearly salary of just $1: Steve Jobs, Apple... John Mackey, Whole Foods... Larry Page, Google... |
The Motley Fool September 3, 2004 Chris Mallon |
Optional No Longer Expense-free option grants are a thing of the past, thanks to the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) new rule. |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2003 Mathew Emmert |
Warren, Show Me the Money Why Berkshire Hathaway should pay dividends. |
The Motley Fool March 9, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
The Other Buffett Succession Question Who will be investing's next great teacher after Warren Buffett? |
The Motley Fool October 12, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer |
Are Millionaires Paying Their Fair Share? Occupy Wall Street protesters want millionaires to pay their "fair share." But what does that even mean? |
The Motley Fool March 4, 2004 Salim Haji |
Buffett Sells. Should You? Warren Buffett is clearly not finding many opportunities to invest the U.S. stock market today. Despite the fact that he has $27 billion of cash sitting idle, concerns about valuation are driving him to sell some stocks and increase that pile of cash. In doing so, he is sending a strong, clear message not only about the specific stocks he is selling, but also about the U.S. equity market in general. |
The Motley Fool April 2, 2004 Whitney Tilson |
Coalition of the Greedy CEOs are fighting to keep the stock options gravy train rolling at shareholders' expense. Three cheers for the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which recently released its proposal to require companies to expense stock options. |
The Motley Fool March 3, 2004 Matt Logan |
The Coca-Cola Connection Despite a web of relationships between directors, Coca-Cola's board is the real thing. |
The Motley Fool September 4, 2007 Todd Wenning |
The Best Stock-Picking Strategy Here are the tried-and-true ways to pick the market's best stocks. |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Daily Walk of Fame: Corporate Heroes Let's take a moment to celebrate the good guys. Solid, well-run companies with smart, ethical, passionate management are far more likely to succeed over the long haul. |
The Motley Fool August 17, 2011 Alyce Lomax |
Those Poor Rich People Get out your tiniest violin: The cult of wealth is losing luster. Why would anybody in their right mind defend nasty, money-grubbing, selfish behavior? We've got to stop. |
The Motley Fool April 15, 2004 Mark Whistler |
Coca-Cola: Minor Burps? Contentious shareholder relations and management issues plague the soft-drink giant. |
The Motley Fool May 18, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
A Daring but Doomed Proposal What if shareholders decided how companies spent their money? |
The Motley Fool May 4, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Should You Invest Like Buffett? If you really want to achieve Buffett-like returns, let Buffett just invest for you. In other words, consider (after doing your homework on it, of course) buying one or more shares of Berkshire Hathaway. |
The Motley Fool June 7, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Derek Jeter's Life Lessons The shortstop's new book offers life advice that's good for investing, too. |
The Motley Fool March 8, 2007 Buz Livingston |
Dueling Fools: Berkshire Hathaway Bull Rebuttal Stay calm, investors. Buffett's eventual end won't be Berkshire's. |
BusinessWeek March 25, 2010 Silver-Greenberg et al. |
CEO Pay Drops, but...Cash Is King An exclusive first look at the 2009 compensation of chief executives at 81 big companies |
The Motley Fool January 19, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
A Great Place to Find Great Stocks Finding shared incentives among the people running the show can reveal some great places to find great stocks. |
BusinessWeek April 19, 2004 Louis Lavelle |
Executive Pay Top CEO paychecks in 2003 were, as usual, off-the-charts amazing. But the pace of overall raises for execs slowed considerably |
The Motley Fool June 24, 2004 Richard Gibbons |
Tech Stocks Not Worth the Risk The technology sector might look promising, but prudent investors should take a second look. Some investors swoon over technology's potential, but they might be overlooking some very real problems in the sector. |
The Motley Fool April 7, 2010 Alyce Lomax |
Those Poor, Poor CEOs! Corporate chieftains' pay drops for the second year in a row. |
The Motley Fool August 7, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Do CEOs Care What Shareholders Think? "Say on pay," where shareholders to voice their approval or disapproval of executive pay packages via nonbinding votes, is slowly gaining traction, and over many years we'll come to see many companies featuring it. |
The Motley Fool November 12, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Shareholders Are Winning ... Slowly CEO overcompensation is gradually being challenged in corporate America by shareholders, through resolutions and annual meeting proposals. |
The Motley Fool July 14, 2010 Julie Clarenbach |
Why Compensation Should Matter to You If you're an investor looking into a possible stock buy, what should you take note of regarding compensation? |
The Motley Fool June 12, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
What's Your Share? Here's a new way to look at a company as a possible investment: How much of the CEO's salary are you paying? |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2004 Bill Mann |
Buffett on White Mountains Berkshire Hathaway completes its warrant exercise to take a 16% stake in White Mountains Insurance. |
The Motley Fool May 28, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
The Good Word From Buffett Laura Rittenhouse, known for her research into the candor of CEOs, has just released a new book, 20 Buffett Bites, expanding on 20 lessons she found in a single letter of Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett. |
The Motley Fool October 4, 2004 Bill Mann |
Taking Advantage of the Terminally Stupid In a public filing, Concord unveiled a plan to buy back employee options at prices up to $4. The trouble is, with a $9 share price, options granted at $40 are worth basically nothing. |