The last of my notes from the Society’s 2015 National Conference in Chicago, 6/24-27/20015. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. Sorry to be posting so long after the event but I still find them useful… and going through my notes may help you remember some of the more interesting points if you attended or get some sense of what went on […]
Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST), which operates membership warehouses, is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 1/29/2015. ProxyDemocracy.org lists the votes of 6 funds from 5 fund families. You can also find votes from CalSTRS and OTPP. I voted with management 36% of the time and assigned them a proxy score of 36. […]
The March/April edition of The Corporate Board contains several excellent articles. I e-mailed a couple of quotes from their ‘Spoken & Written’ section to a CEO who needs a real board, instead of a rubber stamp. (more…)