VEA Vice Chair Nell Minow writes on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation about the Labor Department’s review of ERISA fiduciaries and ESG under the Executive Order issued last month by President Trump. She wrote: ERISA, the 1974 law that governs pension funds, recognizes that the third parties who manage…
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Trump’s Push to Ease Wall Street Rules Hindered by Missteps
President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to loosen Wall Street’s leash, but some of regulators’ most meaningful efforts to revamp post-crisis constraints on big banks are running into problems. Take the Volcker Rule, which restricts banks from making risky market bets with their own money. Under Trump, federal agencies sprinted to rewrite it, issuing an…
Trump and Warren are Both Wrong
Jesse Fried says that Senator Warren and President Trump both want to weaken shareholder oversight, Senator Warren with her legislative proposal and President Trump in asking the SEC to review elimination of quarterly reporting: In the absence of any solid evidence that shareholders harm firms, the case for weakening investors has been based on myths,…
‘Eye-popping’ payouts for CEOs follow Trump’s tax cuts – POLITICO
Some of the biggest winners from President Donald Trump’s new tax law are corporate executives who have reaped gains as their companies buy back a record amount of stock, a practice that rewards shareholders by boosting the value of existing shares.A POLITICO review of data disclosed in Securities and Exchange Commission filings shows the executives,…
Why corporate America [foolishly] loves Donald Trump – The Economist
When it comes to gauging the full costs of Mr Trump, America Inc is being short-sighted and sloppy…. The trouble is that companies are often poor at assessing nebulous risks, and CEOs’ overall view of the environment is fallible. During the Obama years corporate America was convinced it was under siege when in fact, judged…
Major Rollback of Dodd-Frank Signed into Law
President Trump has signed the biggest rollback of bank rules since the financial crisis in a major repeal of provisions of the Dodd-Frank legislation. The new law eases restrictions on all but the largest banks, raising the threshold to $250 billion from $50 billion under which banks are deemed too important to the financial system…
AT&T, foreign corporations risk legal action for payments to Michael Cohen firm – MarketWatch
The payments made to the personal attorney of President Donald Trump raise questions as to whether these companies violated anti-bribery rules, experts in federal bribery laws say.The lawyer for the adult film star suing the president revealed that three companies, AT&T, Switzerland’s Novartis and Korea Aerospace Industries, made payments to Michael Cohen. Each company has…
This is What Would Happen if We Rolled Back Regulations to the 1960’s | HuffPost
VEA Vice Chair Nell Minow responds to President Trump’s initiative to roll back federal regulations to the 1960’s. I’m a passionate supporter of the free market, an entrepreneur who has helped start four successful companies, and an advocate for shareholders as the foundation of capitalism. But there are some things the free market cannot do…
‘No President in the U.S.’ Leads $53 Billion Fund to Sell Stocks – Bloomberg
A leadership vacuum in the world’s biggest economy has driven the largest private-sector pension fund in Finland to cut the weight of U.S. stocks in its 45 billion-euro ($53 billion) portfolio.“It seems as if there is no president in the U.S.,” Risto Murto, chief executive officer of Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Co., said in an…
