New look at City bonuses

[AtW]

Company directors/share-holders (not sure which) decide how to manage dividends... some companies decide to do big dividends, others decide on none at all.

Shareholders are ultimate owners of the company, when directors decide it's a good idea to spend most of profits on staff bonuses leaving shareholders bugger all then there is no point in such a company as it appears to exist to make directors/employees rich.

It's not like they are taking 10% of profits in bonuses, ffs - how can it even be called profit if such a vast some goes into cost based of employees? It's NOT a profit - only what's left and paid as dividend (or retained in company) is, and in this case it's not much.

[d000hg]

The shareholders allow it to happen, don't they?

[AtW]

The shareholders allow it to happen, don't they?

That's because shareholders are big pension funds etc, and they don't want to do anything active about these things, and the reason they invest is because BARC is in FTSE 100.

When I get some free time (after SKA's imminent success), I'll buy 1 share of BARC and give 'em hell on their next AGM.

HTH