Rapporter og tendenser

Profil af det nye bestyrelsesmedlem I Europa. 38 procent er kvinder: Konsulenthuset Heidrick & Struggles har kortlagt profilen på de nye europæiske bestyrelsesmedlemmer sidste år. ”Of the 503 independent seats filled on the boards of CAC 40, DAX 30, ISEQ, AEX 25, PSI 20, IBEX 35, and FTSE 250 companies in 2018, 62% went to current or former CEOs and CFOs. Some 352, or 70%, of those seats were filled by directors with previous board experience. Some 191, or 38%, went to women. Some 61, or 12%, of the 503 seats were filled by appointees with experience in cybersecurity, and 121, or 24%, by appointees with digital or social media experience. Some 182, or 36%, of new seats went to people from countries other than the country where the company’s headquarters are located.
• Nearly half of the seats, 49%, were filled by people with substantial experience in financial services, including 9% with experience in financial risk. Comparative findings: The percentage of non-national appointees varied widely by country—from a high of 62% in the Netherlands to a joint low of 32% in Spain and the United Kingdom.”

Guide: Sådan håndterer du de mest almindelige spørgsmål til et job interview: Konsulenthuset Korn Ferry har udarbejdet en guide om, hvordan man som jobsøger forholder sig til de mest almindelige spørgsmål ved en jobsamtale. ”You don’t need to be a world-class mountaineer to stand out in a job interview. Here’s my advice on how to nail the most common interview question: 1. Take a risk to get personal. Most people are so eager to show off all the work projects they’ve been involved in. Don’t worry. There will be time for that: the interviewer has reviewed your resume and will ask you plenty about your expertise.

“Tell me about yourself” is an invitation for you to share a very short anecdote or some brief personal information that will allow the interviewer to know something about your life outside of work. 2. Don’t be boring: Everyone has something interesting to share about themselves. I’ve heard people talk about everything from being a world-class sushi chef to an ice carver. It’s also important to tell it in a way that makes you memorable: you finished your first triathlon, you participate in competitive sports, you served in the Peace Corps, you’re an accomplished cellist, you’re writing your first detective novel. If the information showcases a unique facet of yourself —and especially if you can link it to what you can bring to yournext job — then go for it.”

Nu kommer de amerikanske aktivitsfonde til Europa, fordi amerikanske aktier er blevet for dyre:Amerikanske børsadvokater på Harvard Governance Blog om de seneste tendenser indenfor aktionæraktivisme: ”Shareholder activism has become an accepted strategy across global markets to bring about change. Increased activism in Europe and Asia may be driven by relatively high equity prices in the U.S., the presence of global institutional investors on targeted companies’ registers, the resolution of a number of local macro issues that decrease uncertainty and a continued warming to a shareholder-centric model of corporate governance.

Many larger companies in the U.S. have addressed vulnerabilities by updating their corporate governance practices to be in line with the broader market. As a result, activists have migrated to seek new opportunities in markets where poor corporate governance practices may be used as a lever with shareholders.” For example, Lazard recently noted that campaigns against non-U.S. targets accounted for 45% of global capital deployed in the first half of 2019, compared to 37% in the first half of 2018. “

US tilsynschef: Vores kapitalmarked lever af Main Street investorer, og vi skal gøre alt for at beskytte dem:Herhjemme kunne de danske myndigheder og
NASDAQomx godt lære noget af betydningen af private investorer på børsmarkedet, med henblik på at formidle risikovillig kapital til udvikling af virksomheder og nye arbejdspladser: ”On May 8, 2019, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton testified to the Senate that “[o]ur first goal, which has been a priority of mine since I became Chairman, is focusing on the interests of our long-term Main Street investors.

” He went on to say that “the question we ask ourselves every day: how does our work benefit the Main Street investor? Each proposal or action we take is guided by that principle.” Clayton also stated that: ”Main Street investors’ continued participation provides the lifeblood for our capital markets, as at least 52 percent of U.S. households are invested directly or indirectly in the capital markets… This level of retail investor participation stands out against other large industrialized countries.”