Most investors like the feeling of security that comes with owning the shares of companies that are doing well and where the outlook is bright. It’s a lot harder to stick with or buy into companies which are facing problems and are underperforming.
If we discovered a business leader had amassed their fortune not only by making a tidy profit on the goods or services they sold, but by pilfering the earnings and savings of innocent members of the public – people not even connected in any way to their business – we would be outraged. There would be demands for justice: compensation for the victims, and prison for the perpetrator.
Metropolitan Police officers have warned they are losing the confidence to do their jobs after a colleague was convicted of assault for arresting a woman during a fare evasion row.