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Theory suggests that large shareholder monitoring may have a significant impact on several aspects of firm behavior, including a firm’s operating profitability, corporate investment policy, and choice of financial and executive compensation policies. Most of this is done through influencing the board through its appointed Board of Directors.
Large shareholders use their influence over firm behavior in several ways. They may affect operating decisions by monitoring management. This can result in improved project selection and investment levels, and possibly reduced waste
CEO pay is perhaps the most obvious potential source of conflict between management and owners. Whether CEOs are paid excessively and set their own pay is a question which has been subject to considerable debate and academic research
For example, BlackRock, which is the largest shareholder in HSBC, even influences the wealth management software that HSBC will use (Alladin developed by BlackRock)
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