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Who Should Actually Have Say on Pay?

Harvard Business Review

That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. Malkiel argues that most of the gigantic growth in asset-management-industry profits since 1980 "is likely to represent a deadweight loss for investors." Which makes sense — most asset managers have a shared interest with CEOs in keeping top-of-the-scale paychecks high.

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Sustainability in Financial Services Is Not About Being Green

Harvard Business Review

Not surprisingly, as Jean Rogers, the Executive Director of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), points out in a Greenbiz blog , "It''s no surprise that banks and financial sectors are the institutions least trusted by U.S. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.".