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Shareholder Primacy versus Shareholder Accountability

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William W. Bratton

ClientEarth-Shell: English Court Rejects Climate-Focused Shareholder Derivative Suit

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Umakanth Varottil

Why Stock Market Short-Termism Is Not the Problem in the US (or the EU) - A review of Mark Roe’s book

Mark Roe, one of the most prominent voices in the short-termism debate, recently wrote an excellent book titled Missing the Target. Why Stock Market Short-Termism Is...

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Muddy Waters’ Answer to the French Woerth Report on Shareholder Activism in Europe

On October 2, 2019, a parliamentary mission from the French Finance, General Economy and Budgetary Control Commission submitted a report about the development of activism in Europe. This...

7 February 2020

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The Threat of Intervention

One of the fundamental issues in modern corporate finance is the problem of separation of firm ownership from control. The gap between management and shareholders is potentially wide, and the...

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Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos

Shareholder Sustainability Activism in the Netherlands

The present and the future generations depend on a sustainable society. Companies have a large impact on our society and play a large role in achieving sustainability goals. In this...

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Christoph Van der Elst

Institutional Investor Voting Behavior: A Network Theory Perspective

It is received wisdom that institutional investors have insufficient incentives to cast informed votes because they compete on relative performance. If BlackRock invests in the monitoring of one of its...

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Alessandro Romano

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