For the past few days, I’ve been down in Florida, a place I once called home, driving between St. Pete, Winter Park, Sarasota and Venice to speak to local chapters of the American Association of Individual Investors. Since I (and the rest of team footnoted) spend a lot of my time in front of our [...]
Too busy to read SEC filings…
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April 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Director pay: how high can it go?
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April 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We’re deep in the heart of proxy season, at least for the next few weeks (the deadline for companies on a calendar year is April 30), which means that each new day brings a crop of new and exciting disclosures about those Demi-gods who either run public companies or are lucky enough to be invited [...]
Trying to channel Steve Jobs…
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April 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Poring over as many proxies as we have been lately, we often come across familiar patterns, really language, that reminds us of something that we’ve read before. Part of that is undoubtedly due to the fact that the same handful of law firms, accounting firms and compensation consultants write most of what passes as proxy [...]
Inside a glass house at Morningstar…
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April 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Over the years, we’ve taken lots of companies (and their top executives) to task for things like over-use of the corporate jet, high-priced security services and even a taste for expensive maps. So if you saw one of us, for example, at a small executive airport about to board a Gulfstream V, it might make [...]
Putting Facebook’s revised S-1 to the test…
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March 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Given that we spend so much of our time delving into SEC filings — seemingly endless mountains of text that are particularly bountiful at this time of year — we’re always on the lookout for things that just might make our lives easier. So when we heard that some smart folks that we know were [...]
