Corporate governance: the great debate – Director Magazine

Corporate governance: the great debate – Director Magazine:

"“Corporate governance is fast-changing and organic, and this is about stimulating a debate,” explains Oliver Parry, the IoD’s senior corporate governance adviser. “This report began with us working towards a good governance index of listed companies and evolved into a focus point for debate on the issue.” Companies of all sizes, says

When CEOs Are Accidentally Overpaid - Bloomberg View

When CEOs Are Accidentally Overpaid - Bloomberg View:

great article focusing on this article by Kelly Shue

 "The difference in pay between different sections was larger than the difference within different sections.  Remember that these sections were randomly created. So Shue's finding means that human networks were a very important determinant of pay levels. She also found that when one

Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says - Real Time Economics - WSJ

Top-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says - Real Time Economics - WSJ: "“Compensation of CEOs has far outpaced that of very highly paid workers, the top 0.1% of earners,” write Mr. Mishel and Ms. Davis. “There are substantial rents embedded in executive pay, meaning that CEO pay gains are not simply the result of a competitive market for talent,” they say, citing earlier research

Women On Wall Street: Just A Tiny Portion Of Mutual Fund Managers Are Women

Women On Wall Street: Just A Tiny Portion Of Mutual Fund Managers Are Women:

From International Business Times:

"It’s no secret that the world of finance skews heavily male. But when it comes to mutual funds, the disparity is particularly stark: Women make up just 9 percent of mutual fund managers.

The data, compiled in a recent paper by Morningstar Research Director Laura Pavlenko Lutton, are

Malkiel: Smart Beta = Smart Marketing Doesn't Equal Smart Investing

Malkiel: Smart Beta = Smart Marketing Doesn't Equal Smart Investing: "In traditional index funds, stocks are selected and weighted according to each company's market capitalization. Smart-beta strategies weigh a portfolio's stocks on book value, cash flows and dividends, and then tweak portfolios by adding what Malkiel calls “a trick or tilt toward another factor, by weight, by value or by

What's Really Driving Income Inequality - Bloomberg View

Phenomenal article!:

What's Really Driving Income Inequality - Bloomberg View: "From 1978 to 2012, effectively all of the increase in wage inequality nationally has been due to increasing disparities from company to company. As the researchers note, “the wage gap between the most highly paid employees within these firms (CEOs and high level executives) and the average employee has increased only

An iconic chief executive vs. his company’s internal watchdogs

An iconic chief executive vs. his company’s internal watchdogs: "new details and allegations call into question how Liveris, close to presidents past and present, has been running the $58 billion company. The materials offer an inside look at how one of America’s largest multinational corporations conducts itself, and how its internal watchdogs battled their renowned chief executive over what

At long last, corporate boards step up - Fortune

At long last, corporate boards step up - Fortune: "The latest reminder is a Wall Street Journal report that federal bank regulators are grilling individual directors of major Wall Street firms, sometimes monthly, as well as sitting in on board meetings and even instructing boards to add members with specific qualifications. It’s happening at the biggest firms—JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America,

Datawatch: price of an iPhone 6 around the world | FT Data

Datawatch: price of an iPhone 6 around the world | FT Data: "The strengthening of the US dollar has reduced the competitiveness of the US compared to the rest of the world according to an analysis of prices conducted by Deutsche Bank. However it remains the cheapest place to pick up an iPhone. In Brazil an iPhone 6 costs almost twice as much as in the US — in the UK you’ll pay a 23 per cent

For investors, it’s a perfect time to go back to the basics - The Washington Post

Great stuff!! Way to go Barry!

For investors, it’s a perfect time to go back to the basics - The Washington Post: " I am going to suggest you take a different route: Focus on 10 basic, simple truths that many investors seemingly ignore. Some of you are unaware of these realities; others understand them intellectually but cannot act on your knowledge. These are the simple things that amateurs and

Dark pools in the news: looks at Wall Street's secret trading exchanges (Dark Pools)

A look at Dark Pools: http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/business/2014/09/26/cnn-orig-what-is-wall-street-dark-pool-paul-lamonica.cnn.html



and from Bloomberg:


"The biggest banks created the venues partly to avoid paying stock exchanges for processing trades between their clients. They’ve attracted scorn this year for allegedly letting the speediest traders feast on slower

So what is the CEO to average worker ratio? 511 or 4? Depends on what you report.

CEO Pay Continues to Rise as Typical Workers Are Paid Less | Economic Policy Institute:

NOTE:  This not as an argument against high CEO pay (have made that before), but to show how a study is done influences the reported findings.


We've all seen the headlines of how CEO pay is rising so quickly.

First from the Economic Policy Institute's

Same article:

"The CEO-to-worker compensation ratio

Active vs. Passive in Global Investing | Financial Planning

Active vs. Passive in Global Investing | Financial Planning:


"The S&P Report, called the SPIVA U.S. Scorecard, which also evaluated the performance of active vs. passive management for domestic funds and for bonds, found that in the international sphere over the past year 70% of global equity funds, 75% of international equity funds, 81% of international small-cap funds and 65% of emerging