To Drive Change, Should Investors Divest or Engage?
Investors and academics debated exit versus voice.
To Drive Change, Should Investors Divest or Engage?Why banks pay ever-larger dividends
Investors use the payments as a proxy for financial strength
Paying regular and increasing dividends allows banks to signal confidence about their solvency.
Eric Floyd, Nan Li, and Douglas J. Skinner, “Payout Policy through the Financial Crisis: The Growth of Repurchases and the Resilience of Dividends,” Journal of Financial Economics, November 2015. Chart reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
Investors and academics debated exit versus voice.
To Drive Change, Should Investors Divest or Engage?The pandemic’s impact on venture capital has been far milder than might have been expected.
COVID-19 Has Left Venture Capitalists Down but Not OutBanks get less oversight than other types of companies, in large part because there’s no mechanism investors can use to discipline management if they need to, research finds.
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