The Rise of Fiduciary Capitalism
Subtitle: How Institutional Investors Can Make Corporate America More Democratic
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780812235630
Subjects: Capitalist or free market economies; Ownership & organization of enterprises; 21st century; Democracy; Investment Finance; Public Policy - Social Policy; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; International Relations - General; Business/Economics; USA; Economics - Theory; Government & Business; Business & Economics / Investments & Securities; Investment & securities; Investments & Securities - General; Stockholders; Corporate Finance; United States; Capitalism; Institutional investments
First sentence: In the United States the growth of institutional investors (public and cooperative pension funds, corporate and union pension funds, and mutual funds and bank trusts) over the past twenty-five years has concentrated a substantial amount of corporate equity into the hands of a relatively small number of fiduciary institutions.
Description: "The Rise of Fiduciary Capitalism chronicles the rise of fiduciary institutions - primarily public and private pension funds - which now own almost 50 percent of the equity of American corporations. In turn approximately 50 percent of Americans either own stock individually or more typically have an ownership or retirement interest in these instructions.

Hawley and Williams argue that, because of their extensive diversification of ownership, fiduciary institutions have become "universal owners" with a significant stake in a broad cross-section of the largest publicly traded firms in the economy."--BOOK JACKET.