About one-third of investors have divested holdings in a company due to poor corporate governance.
According to a recent Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Personal-Finance Poll, more than half of U.S. adults (57%) say they invest in long-term financial service investment products, including an employer sponsored 401k, 403b, or a similar retirement plan (35%), individual retirement accounts such as Roth IRA or regular IRA (30%), mutual funds (25%), and individual company stocks (20%) or bonds (13%). Twenty percent say they invest in money market funds, while forty-two percent say they invest in none of these financial service products.