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The Motley Fool
February 25, 2008
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Risk, Rot, and the Road to Recovery It's high time shareholders demanded better corporate governance from boards.   |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Greed's Deadly Consequences As 2008 draws to a close, it's a good time to contemplate this crazy year and one of its major themes: unbridled greed, unfettered by conscience. |
The Motley Fool
March 10, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Mozilo's a Pretty Sorry Guy Countrywide's CEO fails to apologize for the right thing to the wrong crowd. |
The Motley Fool
December 5, 2007
Morgan Housel |
3 CEOs Who Should Go Nobody is perfect, but these guys should be shown the door. Now. Read on about Angelo Mozilo... James Tobin... John Mackey... |
The Motley Fool
September 18, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Google Does More Do-Gooding Google does have its heart in the right place, as its new philanthropic arm illustrates. |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2008
Rich Duprey |
A Backhanded Defense of CEO Pay Congress is hosting a tete-a-tete for the heads or former heads of Countrywide, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup to discuss how they could reap such windfalls in the face of their company's failures. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Heck of a Job! Here's a Bonus! Shareholders need to start pushing back on compensation policies. |
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? |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
This Billion-Dollar Question Is Still Up in the Air The estate tax is in limbo. |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Ditching Dysfunction in Corporate America In Corporate America, too many management cultures function like a collection of fiefdoms, with little or no accountability to shareholders. To correct this, we need an investor insurrection. |
Fast Company
February 2009 |
CEOs Who Risk Big for Big Paydays Research shows that incentivizing CEOs with large pay and stock-option packages doesn't always have the intended effect of aligning their interests with shareholders. |
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
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
December 21, 2007
Brian Richards |
Be Like a Billionaire A new study shows that giving can make you wealthier. |
The Motley Fool
April 8, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Corporate Boards Need to Wake Up One of investors' biggest problems -- whether they know it or not -- has been a tendency toward ineffective, entrenched boards of directors that don't do their primary job, which is to look out for shareholder interests. |
The Motley Fool
November 1, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
How Charities Do Good Charities have a few lessons for the business world. |
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 21, 2009
Roger Thompson |
Excessive Executive Pay: What's the Solution? In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2005
Jennifer A. Liptow |
White Paper Oh, Woe (What a $10 Million Nest Egg Brings): Many wealthy individuals haven't taken the basic steps necessary to protect their assets, leaving their legacy and their families' financial security to chance. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Financial Crisis: The Greatest Hits The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's report, two years in the making, is a 623-page tome of everything you could ever want to know about the financial crisis. |
The Motley Fool
September 19, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Will the Government Destroy American Capitalism? The law of unintended consequences is still stronger than any bailout package or regulation, and the more strongly the government intervenes, the bigger the problems it may cause. |
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2007
Bill Mann |
Don't Invest With Dirtbags In a week when failed CEOs at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup got to leave with their eight- and nine-digit severance packages intact, individual investors would do well to pay attention to the details about how management pays itself in good times and bad. |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Few Self-Made Millionaires Many millionaires admit that they couldn't have done it without others. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
October 30, 2003 |
Merrill CEO: We're Hiring Stan O'Neal, chairman and chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch, says the company is accelerating its hiring of financial advisors. |
Reason
October 2005 |
Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business A debate featuring Milton Friedman, Whole Foods' John Mackey, and Cypress Semiconductor's T.J. Rodgers in which these men lay out their personal vision of the social responsibility of business. |
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
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. |
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
August 18, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Foolish Book Review: The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism Even the most unapologetic capitalists might do well to wonder what's gone wrong over recent decades. The many ethical issues make John C. Bogle's book The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism a timely and important work. |
Fast Company
June 2002
Robert Simons |
Memo to: CEOs Business is at a crossroads. Scandal and recession have cast a pall on the way CEOs go about leading their companies. Three distinguished professors send this memo -- Five Half-truths of Business -- as a wake-up call... |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2009
Stacy Schultz |
Manage My Wealth Most affluent individuals do not like the term "wealth management," a new study by SpectremGroup reveals. |
U.S. Banker
April 2008
Karen Krebsbach |
Lost Billions in Subprime? You Need a Performance Bonus. The heads of financial-services firms' compensation committees have a lot of explaining to do for approving the lavish pay and severance packages of executives of firms that lost billions in the subprime-mortgage meltdown. |
Registered Rep.
June 22, 2011
Charles Paikert |
Wealth Managers Must Make Changes to Attract High-Net-Worth, Industry Reports Wealth managers need to make key changes in the way they do business to stay competitive, two major studies of the industry have concluded. |
The Motley Fool
October 19, 2010
Ilan Moscovitz |
A New Era for Investors Management and boards must be accountable to us, the owners of the companies employing them. That's called capitalism. |
The Motley Fool
August 24, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Bank of America Tosses Countrywide a Lifeline A $2 billion investment will help keep Countrywide Financial chugging along. Though helpful to Countrywide, the investment wasn't an overly bullish note for the stock. |
The Motley Fool
May 20, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Which Companies Are Swimming Naked Right Now? Sometimes, things are even uglier than they appear in the banking sector. |
U.S. Banker
June 2006
Rebecca Sausner |
Corporate Governance: Ready, Aim and Fire: Shareholders Get Armed A fairly new proposal on the ballot at some institutions includes moves to require an advisory shareholder vote on compensation committee pay reports, with Merrill Lynch, Countrywide Financial and U.S. Bancorp facing votes on this issue. |
The Motley Fool
March 12, 2009
Morgan Housel |
4 Years of Wealth, Up in Smoke A report by the Federal Reserve says that U.S. household net worth fell 18% in 2008, sending us back to just below the same wealth level as 2004. |
Registered Rep.
January 27, 2011
Charles Paikert |
Consumer Confidence Rising, But Investors Still Skittish Measures of consumer and investor confidence are rising rapidly, but wealth managers say their clients aren't completely on board yet. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Re-examining Stock Options as a Way to Compensate Executives Now that an underperforming stock market and the excesses of Enron have focused new attention on the use and abuse of stock options as a way to incentivize senior managers, what changes, if any, should companies make in their design of compensation packages? |
U.S. Banker
July 2011
Phil Angelides |
Four Steps to Reinvent the Financial Industry Have we learned the lessons of the financial crisis? The answer lies somewhere between no and not enough, says the author, who is a former chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. |
Registered Rep.
November 9, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Feeling Poorer, HNW Gifting Dropped in 2009: Survey Says Bah, humbug. The latest study of charitable giving among America's high-net-worth households shows a marked decline in generosity. |
The Motley Fool
December 29, 2006
Brian Richards |
Congrats on Your Profits. Now Give Them Away. Donating appreciated stock makes tax sense for you and shares your wealth with those less fortunate. |
AFP eWire
November 23, 2010 |
Wealthy Gave in Large Number in Downturn, Though Gift Size Decreased According to a recent study by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch, high net worth households in the U.S. continued to support charitable organizations in 2009 at levels that were remarkably consistent with those seen in 2005 and 2007. |
Financial Advisor
November 2008
Joseph J. Cohen |
Harness Giving Talking with your clients about their philanthropic pursuits and how they go about them should take place in the context of a larger discussion about their overall long-term desires for their wealth. |
BusinessWeek
February 24, 2011
Moore & Harper |
Bank Pay Rules Won't Tame Wall Street Experts say proposed pay rules aren't likely to discourage recklessness on Wall Street because holding periods are too short. |
AFP eWire
April 18, 2005 |
Major African-American Wealth Transfer Projected A recent report projects that the wealth transfer from African-American households via estates in the 55-year period between 2001 and 2055 will range between $1.1 trillion to $3.4 trillion. |
The Motley Fool
June 28, 2006
Bill Mann |
Talk About a Competitive Advantage! Berkshire companies should market that 31% of their profits are destined for charity. |
AFP eWire
June 30, 2008 |
Donors Who Mean Business High net worth business owners are dedicated donors who have incorporated philanthropy into their financial plans and will give steadily despite the economic environment. |
