By Robert Trigaux, Times Business Columnist
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Maybe Dimons are forever.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon slid through Tuesday's annual shareholder meeting in Tampa as if he was coated with Teflon. He suffered a few scoldings from investors upset over the bank's recent $2.3 billion trading loss involving complex derivatives. But he evaded the verbal pummeling and shareholder blowback a bank executive of lesser stature might have received.
Nobody inside the highly secured investors' meeting called for his ouster. Shareholders even rejected a proposal to weaken Dimon's power by splitting his two titles, CEO and chairman, with another person.
Nobody could hear the few dozen protesters, outside chanting "hey hey ho ho, big banks have got to go," far from shareholders.
While some shareholders complained about the bank's trading loss, first disclosed last week, others used their chance to speak directly to ...