{"id":2301,"date":"2013-09-18T17:06:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T08:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2013-09-18T17:06:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T08:06:43","slug":"institutional-investor-september-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2301","title":{"rendered":"Institutional Investor (September 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs the global recession and financial crisis recede in the rearview mirror, companies have been acting more proactively in using their balance sheets in ways that enhance shareholder value. But we think they can do more\u2026. By mid-2013, U.S. companies were sitting on cash that was equivalent to about 11 percent of their total assets, a three-decade high and earning almost nothing.\u201d Fortunately, there are signs of change. Companies \u201chave become more receptive to using debt to buy back shares, increase dividends and make acquisitions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs the global recession and financial crisis recede in the rearview mirror, companies have been acting more proactively in using their balance sheets in ways that enhance shareholder value. But we think they can do more\u2026. By mid-2013, U.S. companies were sitting on cash that was equivalent to about 11 percent of their total assets, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2684,2180,1717,1358,159,270,1357,1011,269,325,2563,8],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-acquisitions","tag-assets","tag-balance-sheets","tag-buybacks","tag-cash","tag-debt","tag-dividends","tag-financial-crisis","tag-recession","tag-shareholder-value","tag-shares","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}