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Medtronic, Inc. filed its proxy late last week, and we found the high-dollar salaries one might expect at such a high-profile company: Chairman/CEO William Hawkins got a total compensation package of more than $9.6 million, for example. But was another interesting section as well. It seems that the company required Christopher O’Connell to move from California [...]
In the 8-K that real estate investment trust Entertainment Properties Trust (EPR) filed yesterday, the company reported that last Friday it resolved its legal disputes with Louis Cappelli. The settlement – which included numerous agreements – terminated the pending lawsuits and restructured the company’s investments with Cappelli and his affiliates. The dispute was a doozy. [...]
The news this morning that existing home sales slipped 2.2% last month is a cold reminder that the housing crisis is still with us. Most of us, anyway — at the rarified heights of the executive suite, the economics sometimes look a little different. That’s illustrated by the real-estate fortunes of John Schappert, an in-demand [...]
A lot of us like a good mystery, but most of us probably prefer the ones in a book to those in an SEC filing. When we looked at the 10-K that Forestar Group Inc. (FOR) filed yesterday, we noticed an interesting example that illustrates an important point: Shareholders need transparency and full disclosure in [...]
Along with the daffodils and the start of baseball (and one of these days, warmer weather) comes another rite of spring: the Chairman’s letter. While Warren Buffett’s annual letter is always held up as an example, most of them — as we footnoted last week — are either full of happy-talk or a long boring [...]
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