BusinessWeek (Investing Section): September 23, 2009
http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/sep2009/pi20090923_783858.htm
CEOs and the Pay-for-Performance Puzzle
Many shareholders and corporate boards agree that our system of paying CEOs is broken. How best to reward good corporate chiefs and discourage bad ones?
By Ben Steverman
A highly skilled CEO is hard to find. Highly paid CEOs, however, are everywhere you look.
For decades, corporate boards, watchdogs, [...]
Productivity gains in 2Q due mainly to cost cuts
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090902/ap_on_bi_ge/us_economy_18
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, Ap Economics Writer
WASHINGTON – Companies managed to boost their workers’ productivity and their own profits in the spring mainly by slashing costs and capping their employees’ pay.
That was clear from revised government figures released Wednesday that provided further evidence that a tentative economic recovery [...]
Consumer Staples, Health Care Seen As Recessionary Havens
by Mary Ellen Lloyd, Dow Jones Newswires; 704-948-9145; maryellen.lloyd@dowjones.com
A year into the U.S. recession, the smart money on Wall Street says traditionally defensive sectors such as consumer staples, health care and telecommunications remain among the best bets.
That’s because it is businesses like drugstores, food producers, managed-care companies, and [...]
On May 25, Rutherford Investment Management was featured in the Oregon Financial section of Forbes magazine (Portland subscribers only).
