Key points in the article “Revival requires a broad spread of demand” in last Monday’s Financial Times might have come from a member of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets, the Marathon Club or indeed UKSIF. Instead, the piece was by Kemal Derviş, until recently head of UNDP and a former Turkish government minister.
The points were:
“A central problem in many markets has been short-termism and herd behaviour.”
“Part of the fundamental rebalancing will have to involve a regulatory framework and corporate governance that ties rewards to longer-term performance.”
“The crisis should teach us … not to underestimate the potential damage from events deemed unlikely or hard to predict. The costs of the financial crisis may pale in comparison to some of the long-term risks attached to irreversible global climate change, pandemic diseases and nuclear weapons proliferation.”
“A crisis can also be an opportunity for fundamental improvement. If this one teaches us that robustness is as important as efficiency in human affairs, it will have been such an opportunity.”
Yes, Yes, Yes and Yes!
The points were:
“A central problem in many markets has been short-termism and herd behaviour.”
“Part of the fundamental rebalancing will have to involve a regulatory framework and corporate governance that ties rewards to longer-term performance.”
“The crisis should teach us … not to underestimate the potential damage from events deemed unlikely or hard to predict. The costs of the financial crisis may pale in comparison to some of the long-term risks attached to irreversible global climate change, pandemic diseases and nuclear weapons proliferation.”
“A crisis can also be an opportunity for fundamental improvement. If this one teaches us that robustness is as important as efficiency in human affairs, it will have been such an opportunity.”
Yes, Yes, Yes and Yes!
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