Because shareholder pressure has forced companies to go wherever they can reap superior short-term returns.
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The insurer did not give a reason for Mr Moss's departure, but analysts said shareholder pressure was behind the move.
Shareholder pressure is pushing exchanges to look for new sources of revenue, in new asset classes or in foreign markets.
The expected smaller gain in compensation also reflects intensified shareholder pressure about executive pay, particularly when it seems unrelated to performance.
And on Monday a spokesman said chief executive Werner Seifert's post was safe, despite giving way to shareholder pressure over the LSE issue.
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Having stockpiled cash, banks face shareholder pressure to find new borrowers.
With no need to pay dividends (state firms do not have to make any transfers to central government) and little shareholder pressure to ensure that their investment is cost-effective, Chinese firms went on a capital-spending binge, concentrated in industries such as aluminium, steel, car production and cement.
Does Hartmut Mehdorn, the head of Deutsche Bahn whose contract ends in 2008, really want to saddle his successor with the kind of problems faced by Mr Obermann at Deutsche Telekom: shareholder pressure on one side and powerful unions, plus a legacy of state ownership on the other?
Separately, Vivus has now succumbed to shareholder pressure and begun holdings talks with large drugmakers to market its Qsymia diet pill, which has so far failed to live up to its promise, despite becoming the first commercially available prescription diet pill to be approved by the FDA in more than a decade.
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With e-books eroding its brick and mortar business, pressure from shareholder activists was said to have prompted the move.
On Monday, Wamu said it had stripped its chief executive of the chairman's title, splitting the roles and making a number of other changes to its board after pressure from shareholder activists.
R. 1965 would remove the pressure of the current shareholder cap for small banks and bank holding companies.
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As pressure has mounted to extract shareholder value and keep costs in check, so the strategic role of the CFO has increased in importance.
The plan's backers hope that fresh funds and cannier investment will give the Tokyo stockmarket a lift, by putting pressure on companies to improve shareholder value.
But perhaps the biggest pressure is likely to come from shareholder ire.
Activist investors are stepping up the pressure on military contractors to bolster shareholder returns, even if that means abandoning strategies aimed at making companies more resilient for the long term.
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