Featured
After extensive consultation with global investors, the ICGN releases two new best practice guidelines: ICGN Guidance on Political Lobbying and Donations and Model Contract Terms Between Asset Owners and Managers. Said Christianna Wood, Chairman of the ICGN Board of Governors: …
Continue reading
THE CONSOLIDATION OF WEALTH & POWER In the 1500s and early 1600s, exchange banks were formed in the Netherlands and in other parts of Italy to deal with currency exchange based on expanding trade. Privately owned financial institutions developed simultaneously …
Continue reading
The SEC granted Textron (TXT) no-action relief on March 7, allowing them to drop Ken Steiner’s proxy access proposal based on their decision that paragraphs 1-5 and 7 of the USPX proxy access template deal with “the inclusion of shareholder …
Continue reading
THE STIGMA OF USURY Consider the concept of money lending, perhaps the greatest engine for growth ever conceived. As far back as the ancient Sumerians and Greeks, the borrowing of goods in exchange for a return enhanced by a premium …
Continue reading
The Activist Investor – Why Companies Oppose Proxy Access discusses three possibilities: Directors and executives automatically oppose investors. The subject or the investor doesn’t matter. Anything investors want must be bad. Directors and executives are quite risk averse. Maybe there’s a …
Continue reading
A SELECTIVE HISTORY OF OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY To truly understand the symbiotic connection between money and the mind, it is essential to know from whence it came and how it developed as an integral component of the human experience. …
Continue reading
Francis H. Byrd asked several of us in the corporate governance industrial complex to make predictions for the 2012 proxy season and beyond. I urge you to read the Laurel Hill Advisory Group’s pdf, Predictions and Expectations for 2012. Just …
Continue reading
KNOWLEDGE OF MONEY IS POWER Addressing an intellectual and/or historical vacuum is good business. You are part of something bigger, so you need to develop a knowledge base of money history and economic theory, as well as awareness of the …
Continue reading
As Laura Berry mentioned at the conference, this is an event to recharge your batteries. It is great to learn what others are doing. Of course, the list of things I need to do grows exponentially every time I attend …
Continue reading
Consider the following statement: “The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn’t want to go …
Continue reading
Subscribe to The
Wall Street Psychologist
About Christopher Bayer, Ph.D.
Co-founder of TheShareholderActivist.comTM, Christopher Bayer, Ph.D., is "The Wall Street Psychologist." With his weekly blogs, research and special features, Dr. Bayer brings you inside the minds of The Street as few can.
Since the early 1980's, Dr. Bayer has practiced as a licensed New York psychologist and psychoanalyst, specializing in the treatment of financial services executives in the securities and banking industries. He has a long standing interest in shareholder education and shareholder activism.
read more...
Fundamentals
The Shareholder Activist's Mission
The Shareholder Activist is a network that empowers investors to exercise their rights as equity stakeholders. Our goal is to create a platform for responsible shareholder activism ensuring the viability and sustainability of companies we co-own. As an online community we provide tools, tactics, and techniques to hold companies to their stated mission. We advocate for shareholder and investor education.