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Ultimately, "long-sighted" shareholders should be able to outperform the short-sited ones, as long as they can retain control of the company. I wonder if there'
by frenchy 6y ago
Ultimately, "long-sighted" shareholders should be able to outperform the short-sited ones, as long as they can retain control of the company. I wonder if there's any way to form a sort of shareholders union to maintain the control of an organization by shareholders who plain to keep stock for a long time.
- Jolter 6y agoThe sibling comments by pdonis and nicoburns, about mutual funds, explain pretty well why the short-term investors will increase over time.
- cbhl 6y agoThe two-class stock structure (ala Facebook and Google) is one experiment in this, but being able to establish such a structure depends on investors' appetite for it during IPO-time.