Shareholders

NEW YORK — Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs. The head of a typical public company made $9.6 milli...

By the nature of WellPoint's core business, it is connected to some of the most intimate moments in its clients' lives. WellPoint is in a risky business and by not being fully transparent about how they participate in politics, they amplify their risks even more.

There are moral hazards and agency costs in the allocation of corporate funds. Experience has shown that executives will support policies that diminish shareholder returns. The term "capitalism" refers, after all, to the providers of capital.

Companies should get out of the political spending game and focus on doing what they were created to do: make a profit for their shareholders.

LONDON -- The chief executive of Aviva, Britain's largest insurer, has resigned following a shareholder revolt over executive pay, the company said Tu...

The shareholder revolt against banker pay seems to have fizzled out. Shareholders late last week rejected the pay plan for Sterling Bancorp, a New ...

* Shareholder proposal seeks end to campaign contributions * Company calls proposal imprudent * Comes amid time of risin...

By Katharina Bart ZURICH, May 3 (Reuters) - UBS became the latest bank to face the anger of its shareholders over exec...

* 99% Power groups says Wells Fargo excluded shareholders * Group wants to meet with CEO before May 9 meeting * Activist...

I doubt it. After years of not having to worry much about what their shareholders thought, the Citigroup vote was a wake up call for every corporate board of directors.

In a true democracy, our officials are elected by and held accountable to us, the citizen, the highest office in the land. By focusing on the issues that unite instead of divide, and organizing with other citizens who meet on common ground, we can reject the status quo and its servants.

What would pay look like if pay packages emphasized investment in the real economy over short term profits that emanate from the non-productive activity that got us into trouble in the first place? Citi might be a great place to experiment.

NEW YORK (AP) — A recently proposed $20 million settlement of shareholder claims by Bank of America Corp. over its 2009 acquisition of Merrill Lynch...

* Lawsuit follows rejection of CEO Pandit's pay package * Directors accused of breach of fiduciary duties April 20 (Reut...

* Ex-chairman says pay plan not explained well * Plan by board lost in advisory poll of shareholders * Barney Frank prai...

Citigroup shareholders seem to have started a trend. After the resounding rejection of Citigroup's compensation plan earlier this week, shareholder...

The vote against Vikram Pandit's proposed pay package isn't binding on Citigroup. But it's a warning shot across the bow of every corporate boardroom in America. Shareholders aren't happy about executive pay.

Are we better or worse off economically, socially and politically with shareholders in that pre-eminent a role? Is there a balance point? Have we, in a world of activist hedge funds and high-frequency trading, overshot that point?

* Economic advisory group fingers boards, execs, shareholders * Regulators warned against interfering in corporate strategy ...

Historically, corporations were understood to be responsible to a complex web of constituencies, including employees, communities, society at large, suppliers, and shareholders. But in the era of deregulation, the interests of shareholders began to trump all the others.

NEW YORK -- Goldman Sachs made a move to court unhappy shareholders by shaking up its board. But Tuesday, a union group said it wasn't enough....

We are a nation of corporations, but our press and our conventional politics do not in any systematic way make visible the effect of corporate actions on the country. Let us as citizens make up for that significant omission.

By Deepa Seetharaman March 6 (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co Chief Executive Alan Mulally was awarded shares in the No. 2 U.S. automaker wh...