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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] From Shareholders to CEOs: Trumpโ€™s SEC Agenda Reshapes Power Dynamics

Why Trumpโ€™s SEC Reforms Arenโ€™t Just About Red Tapeโ€”Theyโ€™re Rewriting the Rules of Capitalism

์ฃผ์ฃผ์—์„œ CEO๋กœ: ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ SEC ๊ฐœํŽธ์ด ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ ๊ตฌ๋„๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋‹ค

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ SEC ๊ฐœํŽธ์€ ๊ทœ์ œ ์™„ํ™”์—๋งŒ ๊ตญํ•œ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ , ์ž๋ณธ์ฃผ์˜์˜ ๊ทœ์น™ ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์“ฐ๋Š” ์ค‘์ด๋‹ค

๐Ÿ˜Ž ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด?

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๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

Donald Trumpโ€™s recent call to end quarterly earnings reports is part of a broader push by his administration and the SEC to tilt corporate governance power away from investors and toward executives. The proposed changes aim to reduce corporate disclosure and legal exposure, potentially weakening shareholder oversight in favor of managerial discretion.

๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ํ์ง€ํ•˜์ž๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€, ๊ธฐ์—… ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ„๋„Œ์Šค ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ์„ ์ฃผ์ฃผ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„ ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๋ ค๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€์™€ SEC์˜ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ์›€์ง์ž„์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ œ์•ˆ๋“ค์€ ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ์ •๋ณด ๊ณต๊ฐœ์™€ ๋ฒ•์  ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ์ค„์—ฌ, ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฐ์‹œ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์˜ ์žฌ๋Ÿ‰๊ถŒ์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The SEC has already made moves to allow arbitration clauses that prevent shareholder lawsuits and greenlit ExxonMobilโ€™s new voting mechanism that favors corporate management over activist investors.

SEC๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ์ฃผ์ฃผ ์†Œ์†ก์„ ๋ง‰๋Š” ์ค‘์žฌ ์กฐํ•ญ์„ ํ—ˆ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ , ํ–‰๋™์ฃผ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์—๊ฒŒ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ์—‘์Šจ๋ชจ๋นŒ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํˆฌํ‘œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์Šน์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

  1. Mandatory Arbitration (์˜๋ฌด ์ค‘์žฌ)
    A clause that forces disputes to be resolved outside of court, often reducing transparency and shareholder power.
    โ†’ ๋ฒ•์ • ์†Œ์†ก์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ์ค‘์žฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•์ œํ•˜๋Š” ์กฐํ•ญ์œผ๋กœ, ํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ฃผ์ฃผ ๊ถŒํ•œ์„ ์•ฝํ™”์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ

  2. Quarterly Reporting (๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ œ)
    Public companies must disclose financial performance every three months, a cornerstone of market transparency.
    โ†’ ์ƒ์žฅ๊ธฐ์—…์ด 3๊ฐœ์›”๋งˆ๋‹ค ์‹ค์ ์„ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ์ œ๋„, ์‹œ์žฅ ํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ถ•

  3. Activist Investors (ํ–‰๋™์ฃผ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž์ž)
    Investors who push for corporate change, often clashing with existing management.
    โ†’ ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์œ ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค๋กœ, ์ข…์ข… ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„๊ณผ ์ถฉ๋Œํ•จ

  4. Universal Proxy Card (ํ†ตํ•ฉ ์œ„์ž„์žฅ)
    A new voting system that consolidates shareholder choices on a single ballot, potentially empowering management.
    โ†’ ์ฃผ์ฃผ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ํ†ตํ•ฉ๋œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ์ œ๋„๋กœ, ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์— ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž‘๋™ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ

  5. Disclosure Rationalization (๊ณต์‹œ ๊ฐ„์†Œํ™”)
    Reducing the frequency and detail of corporate disclosures under the banner of regulatory efficiency.
    โ†’ ๊ทœ์ œ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋ช…๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ๊ณต์‹œ ๋นˆ๋„์™€ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์ค„์ด๋ ค๋Š” ์›€์ง์ž„

๐Ÿง  In Focus

The SECโ€™s deregulatory trajectory under Trump and new chair Paul Atkins signals a broader ideological shift: from shareholder capitalism to executive-led governance. By dismantling transparency and litigation avenues, the administration seeks to prioritize corporate stabilityโ€”but potentially at the cost of accountability.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์™€ ์ƒˆ SEC ์œ„์›์žฅ ํด ์•ณํ‚จ์Šค ํ•˜์˜ SEC๋Š” ๊ทœ์ œ ์™„ํ™”์˜ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ์ฃผ ์ž๋ณธ์ฃผ์˜์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„ ์ฃผ๋„์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ„๋„Œ์Šค๋กœ์˜ ์ด๋…์  ์ „ํ™˜์„ ์•”์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ๊ณผ ์†Œ์†ก ๊ฒฝ๋กœ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์ฒดํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ์šฐ์„ ์‹œํ•˜๋˜, ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ์€ ํฌ์ƒ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

While corporate leaders celebrate reduced oversight, institutional investors and governance experts warn of widening inequality between small and large shareholders, where access to data and influence is increasingly asymmetrical.

๊ธฐ์—… ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์€ ๊ทœ์ œ ์ถ•์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ธฐ๊ด€ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์™€ ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ„๋„Œ์Šค ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ํˆฌ์ž์ž์™€ ์†Œ์•ก ์ฃผ์ฃผ ๊ฐ„ ์ •๋ณด ์ ‘๊ทผ๊ณผ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์˜ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ "reduce compliance burdens"
๊ทœ์ œ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ์ค„์ด๋‹ค
"The SECโ€™s proposal aims to reduce compliance burdens for small businesses."
โ†’ SEC์˜ ์ œ์•ˆ์€ ์ค‘์†Œ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ๊ทœ์ œ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋ชฉ์ ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ "tilt the balance of power"
๊ถŒ๋ ฅ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ๊ธฐ์šธ์ด๋‹ค
"Critics say the rule changes tilt the balance of power from investors to executives."
โ†’ ๋น„ํ‰๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ทœ์ œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„ ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ธฐ์šธ์ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ "corporate capture"
๊ธฐ์—…์— ์˜ํ•œ ๊ทœ์ œ ์žฅ์•…
"There are fears of corporate capture at the SEC, where regulation serves managers more than markets."
โ†’ SEC๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์—…์— ์žฅ์•…๋‹นํ•ด, ์‹œ์žฅ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ทœ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์šฐ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ "shareholder democracy"
์ฃผ์ฃผ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜
"The rollback of disclosure laws undermines shareholder democracy."
โ†’ ๊ณต์‹œ ๋ฒ•๊ทœ์˜ ์ฒ ํšŒ๋Š” ์ฃผ์ฃผ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜๋ฅผ ํ›ผ์†ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ "short-termism vs. long-term vision"
๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ฃผ์˜ ๋Œ€ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๋น„์ „
"Reducing reporting frequency might curb short-termism, but at what cost to transparency?"
โ†’ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๋นˆ๋„ ์ถ•์†Œ๋Š” ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ฃผ์˜๋ฅผ ์–ต์ œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ์„ ํฌ์ƒํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

When disclosure dims and courts close, what happens to capitalismโ€™s social contract? Trumpโ€™s SEC may be rewriting not just rules, but the roles.

๊ณต์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์ค„๊ณ , ๋ฒ•์›์ด ๋‹ซํž ๋•Œ, ์ž๋ณธ์ฃผ์˜์˜ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๊ณ„์•ฝ์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฑธ๊นŒ์š”? ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ SEC๋Š” ๋‹จ์ง€ ๊ทœ์น™์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์—ญํ•  ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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