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Are CEO’s Worth It…Apparently Not

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I cited a piece on CEO pay here. This piece lead me to look at what local CEO’s are paid and conveniently the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors produced the table below.   I reordered the data a little to simply show their 2011 Realised Pay to which I added the one and five year…

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Something Interesting

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Over the past few weeks I have noticed something interesting. A number of people I know are cancelling their subscriptions to various data and information feed as well as a few information related forums I know of. Their rationale is that they have grown tired of waiting for the market. If I didnt know better…

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CEO Pay

Surprise, surprise…the more they get paid the more damage they do to shareholders. Abstract: In this paper we examine the agency costs of seemingly excessive pay awards to CEO’s within the FTSE 100 in the last decade. Are CEOs taking a large proportion of the total pot (a big “pay slice”) more, or less, able…

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Fox News

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Interesting how events sometimes come together. In the US the election season has launched into full swing and I was cleaning out an archive image folder I have. If ever you wandered whether Fox News was by morons, for morons look no further.

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Stock Twats

I was going through one of my feed this morning and I noticed that it had picked up a piece called 5 apps every trader should have So I though why ot have a look, I like to clutter my smartphone up with stupid crap – particularly if its free. So I had a gawk…

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Opportunity Revisited

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Last week I posted this chart. The basic thrust of my post was that talk comes and goes, the way you or anyone else feels about the market waxes and wanes but market are great at telling you that something is happening. That is if anyone takes the time to shut up and listen because…

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