Comments on: Activist flushes out Nomura and investor weakness http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2012/06/04/activist-flushes-out-nomura-and-investor-weakness/ Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:49:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: thoma http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2012/06/04/activist-flushes-out-nomura-and-investor-weakness/comment-page-1/#comment-9324 thoma Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:32:09 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/?p=11902#comment-9324 Jamie D got a free pass on this one and a $23 million bonus. Let shareholders not their proxies control companies then the greed will subside Jamie D got a free pass on this one and a $23 million bonus.

Let shareholders not their proxies control companies then the greed will subside

]]> By: jbeaudette http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2012/06/04/activist-flushes-out-nomura-and-investor-weakness/comment-page-1/#comment-9317 jbeaudette Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:03:59 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/?p=11902#comment-9317 Reading this I can't help but wonder why this column has not investigated further. This kind of thing is typical sokaiya practice... A little oldschool for yakuza perhaps, but it was still the first thing to pop into my mind. Even the serious proposal doesn't sound serious. Japanese business culture has always placed importance on seniority instead of merit and suggesting otherwise is indeed a joke. Reading this I can’t help but wonder why this column has not investigated further. This kind of thing is typical sokaiya practice… A little oldschool for yakuza perhaps, but it was still the first thing to pop into my mind.

Even the serious proposal doesn’t sound serious. Japanese business culture has always placed importance on seniority instead of merit and suggesting otherwise is indeed a joke.

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