Investors aren’t trapped in short-term thinking — but the SEC still wants semiannual earnings reporting.

The European Supervisory Authorities have each published advice to the European Commission on undue short-term pressure from the financial sector on corporations. The ESAs comprise the European ...

We're repeatedly told that the business world is suffering from a massive attack of short termism. That corporations only look as far as the next quarterly profits and that they skimp, even skip, on ...

Our partner, Xinhua China News Agency, recently shared a series of Instagram posts highlighting China’s development. What struck me was not just the ...

Eric Cantor worked with short-term thinkers in Congress. Got beat by short-term thinkers in 2014. And took a job in investment banking that handsomely rewards short-term thinking. The former House ...

More than ever, businesses are judged quarter-to-quarter, month-to-month and even minute-by-minute. In a world where information is available instantaneously, investors and business owners often react ...

I apologize for the intervening gap between my last Alpha Wounds post about the active quality of passive investment management and this one. Given the length of the wait, let me dive straight into ...

WASHINGTON — You’ve heard the criticism. Too many American corporate managers are addicted to “short-termism.” They postpone investments and other costs, sacrificing future performance for present ...

Short-termism, as usually defined by its proponents, is an ongoing trend of corporate myopia. In which corporate managers, driven by investor demands, focus on near-term earnings and stock price ...