Financial Incentives

One of the reasons we formed Cadence back in 2010 was to rid ourselves of the embedded conflicts of interest that are inherent in large, profit-seeking public firms. I’m not suggesting that profit-seeking is bad, after all, it makes our economy go, jobs available, and is a genuinely positive aspect of the American way of life. But what we see every day working in financial markets is that there are immense pressures put on public companies by shareholders and Wall Street to increase profits quarter after quarter to fuel rising stock prices. Stock options within public companies, in many cases…