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Governing the Modern Corporation: Capital Markets, Corporate Control, and Economic Performance

Roy C. Smith and Ingo Walter

Print publication date: 2006

Print ISBN-13: 9780195171679

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2006

DOI: 10.1093/0195171675.001.0001

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Institutional Investors

Institutional Investors

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(p.121) 6 Institutional Investors
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Governing the Modern Corporation
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Roy C. Smith (Contributor Webpage)

Ingo Walter (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0195171675.003.0006

This chapter explores the critical role of institutional investors as fiduciaries and in the governance of public companies. These institutions have more frequently encountered agency conflicts as the complexities of their businesses (managing pension funds, mutual funds, and 401ks of various types for both corporate and individual accounts) and competitive pressures have increased. They are powerful players in exercising control rights. As an industry, they can make the difference between governance successes and failures.

Keywords:   institutional investors, corporate governance, public companies, asset management, pension funds, mutual funds

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