Word: investors
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...privatization of Social Security could recharge America's future. The central idea is to take a portion of the tax every worker pays into the Social Security system and put it into a savings account that each individual can decide how to invest. By turning every American into an investor, and a government safety net into a system that rewards judicious risk and individual initiative, Republicans believe they can change how Americans see every question from free trade to capital gains--tax cuts. "If we succeed in reforming Social Security, it will rank as one of the most significant conservative...
...serial dealmaker, Simon is just starting to focus more attention on his company's organic growth. Only a few months ago, Hain finally hired an in-house vice president of investor relations. (Hain's share price has always got a bit of a boost because of a widely held perception on Wall Street that Heinz, which owns about 16% of Hain in a fairly hands-off role, may eventually take it over entirely.) And Simon has handed off much of the day-to-day management duties to a coterie of seasoned, mass-market-foods veterans, most notably Carroll, formerly head...
...speaker, Richard Koppes, a former CalPERS general counsel, delivered a blunt message. "Your friends think you're unfocused and too political," Koppes said. "They say you're beginning to damage the corporate-governance movement." CalPERS president Sean Harrigan, a grocery workers' union boss and an architect of the institutional investor's bare-knuckle strategy, got a more pointed message two weeks ago from the state personnel board he represented at CalPERS: it replaced him with Republican real estate developer Ronald Alvarado...
...that Harrigan and CalPERS didn't open the door to criticism. During most of the post-Enron era, CalPERS was above reproach, suing to hold WorldCom executives accountable for investor losses and helping lead popular, triumphant crusades for boardroom and executive-suite overhauls at the New York Stock Exchange and Disney. But earlier this year, CalPERS moved from the spotlight to the hot seat when it withheld support from Coca-Cola director and shareholder hero Warren Buffett because Coke's independent-auditor policy was allegedly too lax. At the time, John Castellani, head of the prestigious Business Roundtable, said...
...first appeared atop an employee’s desk in 2002, amid a bitter dispute with an external fund manager who called the University a “vulture investor...