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The more money you have in a company as a % shareholder, the louder your words become, I don't think the op needs to worry about that anytime soon
If you are worrying about CEO comp, then buy BRK-B shares, CEO Buffett pays himself $100k, no dividends, re-invest everything it earns, and minimum on GA costs, corporate office has less than 20 people, you can't get more efficient than this, that guy still eats at Burger King for god sake.
The words on wall street is if you pay a good CEO 1% more to gain 10% on the returns, it's well worth it, that 1% could mean $10 million dollars.
What I think is absurd is the idea that companies need to grow YoY it's seen as a "failure"
If a company makes $4.2 billion in profit in 2012 but only $4.15 in 2013, it's "a bad sign" -- forgetting the fact that they still made 4.15 billion....
As far as CEO salary, as others have mentioned, it's pennies per stockholder, if that.
People don't understand the law of large numbers. This was a funny discussion when oil was trading above 140 and people were calling for them to cut exec comp
If you don't like the comp paid to a CEO of a company your own do something. If you can't get it done your fellow owners don't agree with you
The last thing I would want to do if I'm invested in a successful company and stock is throw out the CEO because of the bonus or pay raise awarded by the board of directors. No thanks!
Now if the company and stock are going downhill and he/she still gets a new bonus or pay raise, then I would like to see it happen, but in all honestly, I could care less because it only takes one click to sell it and move on.
Shareholder value is the goal. If the CEO enhances it and with salary results in a higher net value. Pay them!
Apple without Steve Jobs or Tim Cook is worth? I suspect Apple shareholders are glad they don't know.
never confuse good companies with good stocks. personally i want to make money , if high ceo pay does the trick ,great.
if not i am off to another company.
if i buy individual stocks i do not really care about buying a buisness as much as i buy it as a trading vehicle. warren buffett i am not. good companies can make dull stocks many times and just never pay off because of lack of coverage by analysts. ..
Rising inequality is estimated to have knocked more than 10 percentage points off growth in Mexico and New Zealand over the past two decades up to the Great Recession. In Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States, the cumulative growth rate would have been six to nine percentage points higher had income disparities not widened, but also in Sweden, Finland and Norway, although from low levels. On the other hand, greater equality helped increase GDP per capita in Spain, France and Ireland prior to the crisis.
The paper finds new evidence that the main mechanism through which inequality affects growth is by undermining education opportunities for children from poor socio-economic backgrounds, lowering social mobility and hampering skills development.
In example Finland has much lower inequality than America and also has much greater social movability. It seems that these two are connected
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