Gillian Tan, Columnist

It's Time for Bank Hardball

Executives haven't truly been held accountable for mediocre returns.

April 12, 2017 at 6:28 PM UTC

Gillian Tan is a senior reporter covering finance and alternative asset classes including real estate, infrastructure, private equity, private credit, venture capital and sports business. She previously wrote an opinion column for Bloomberg and was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. She is a qualified chartered accountant.

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Wall Street's top executives should be pressed for substantive answers to harder-hitting questions about long-term performance.

That's a notion being trumpeted by well-known bank analyst Mike Mayo, who has never been one to shy away from criticizing the companies he covers. And boy, does he have a point.