A couple of articles announcing survey results that I find interesting and want to catalogue here:
From the Wall Street Journal, “Corporate-Governance Concerns Are Spreading, and Companies Should Take Heed.” Excerpt:
A study of more than 300 institutional investors around the globe, to be released next week, finds corporate-governance concerns are still very much on the rise. A surprising 63% of those surveyed believe corporate governance will be even more important to their firms over the next three years than it has been over the past three years.The study was conducted by Institutional Shareholder Services, an advisory service for big investors, and it included pension funds, mutual funds, hedge funds and other large money managers in North America, Europe and Asia. . .
Dennis Johnson, a senior portfolio manager at Calpers, says his firm has invested $4 billion with activist managers who focus on different corporate-governance measures in different markets with great success. “It’s one of the best-performing strategies in all of equity investing for Calpers,” he says.
From the Captive Daily Wire, Health Savings Accounts fastest growing area of the healthcare market, according to healthcare executive survey. Excerpt:
When asked which areas within the healthcare market they saw growing the fastest over the next year, thirty-six percent (36%) of healthcare insurance executives said they believed health savings accounts/high deductible plans will see the most significant growth, followed by mini-med plans (13%) and Medicare/Medicaid advantage plans (12%). This finding was from a survey conducted at the seventh annual American Re HealthCare Symposium.
(Access the latter survey here.)