The European Supervisory Authorities have each published advice to the European Commission on undue short-term pressure from the financial sector on corporations. The ESAs comprise the European ...

Semiannual earnings reporting tries to “fix” a problem that the market’s success stories have already solved.

We're repeatedly told that the business world is suffering from a massive attack of short termism. That corporations only look as far as the next quarterly profits and that they skimp, even skip, on ...

Eric Cantor worked with short-term thinkers in Congress. Got beat by short-term thinkers in 2014. And took a job in investment banking that handsomely rewards short-term thinking. The former House ...

More than ever, businesses are judged quarter-to-quarter, month-to-month and even minute-by-minute. In a world where information is available instantaneously, investors and business owners often react ...

In this article from Directors & Boards, SEC Chair Jay Clayton talks again about short-termism and discusses his views on ESG disclosure, particularly disclosure regarding human capital management. In ...

I apologize for the intervening gap between my last Alpha Wounds post about the active quality of passive investment management and this one. Given the length of the wait, let me dive straight into ...

WASHINGTON — You’ve heard the criticism. Too many American corporate managers are addicted to “short-termism.” They postpone investments and other costs, sacrificing future performance for present ...

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. While a ...

Short-termism, as usually defined by its proponents, is an ongoing trend of corporate myopia. In which corporate managers, driven by investor demands, focus on near-term earnings and stock price ...