Good-looking CEOs mean hot stocks

Attractive CEOs give their company’s stocks a boost in the early days of their tenure, finds a study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

By Staff | January 3, 2014 | Last updated on January 3, 2014
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Attractive CEOs give their companies’ stocks a boost in the early days of their tenures, finds a study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

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They also enjoy higher salaries and get higher premiums in takeovers, the Globe and Mail reports. The researchers looked at 677 CEOs of S&P 500 companies and rated their facial attractiveness. Boosts in the companies’ fortunes were linked to CEOs’ television appearances.

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