Enhancing Jon Corzine in the filings…
Unlike Wikipedia, where a person’s bio can be changed with a few simple keystrokes, prompting all-out edit wars, SEC filings move quite a bit slower. Subtle changes usually take place quarterly, or even yearly, as opposed to second by second. That’s mostly because attorneys and others have to review those words to make sure that...
Enhancing Jon Corzine in the filings…
Unlike Wikipedia, where a person’s bio can be changed with a few simple keystrokes, prompting all-out edit wars, SEC filings move quite a bit slower. Subtle changes usually take place quarterly, or even yearly, as opposed to second by second. That’s mostly because attorneys and others have to review those words to make sure that...
Enhancing Jon Corzine in the filings…
Unlike Wikipedia, where a person’s bio can be changed with a few simple keystrokes, prompting all-out edit wars, SEC filings move quite a bit slower. Subtle changes usually take place quarterly, or even yearly, as opposed to second by second. That’s mostly because attorneys and others have to review those words to make sure that...
Our top ten perks of the 2011 proxy season!
Best of lists are normally the type of thing that you read in December or early January, when the news cycle is slow. That’s when we normally run our Worst Footnote of the Year contest. But some things are on a different schedule, like proxies, for example. And now that practically all of the 2011...
The new golden parachute: Apple’s iPad…
If two data-points make a line, according to the old reporter’s saw, three make a trend. And by that measure, we’ve seen more than enough executives heading out the door with company-issued iPads to make it a trend. So let’s make it official: If you’re shown the door to the executive suite, you can snag...
Introducing the corporate time machine…
It’s not enough that shareholders underwrite the cost of many executives’ personal flights on the corporate jet, green fees, and country club dues. It now appears that some companies have invested in time machines. At least, that’s one explanation for some of the curious applications of time that we’ve noticed in recent SEC filings. Take,...
Introducing the corporate time machine…
It’s not enough that shareholders underwrite the cost of many executives’ personal flights on the corporate jet, green fees, and country club dues. It now appears that some companies have invested in time machines. At least, that’s one explanation for some of the curious applications of time that we’ve noticed in recent SEC filings. Take,...
Lots of eye candy in Abercrombie PowerPoint…
Here at footnoted, we spend most of our time reading SEC filings — lots and lots of SEC filings. And while there are certainly plenty of interesting tidbits buried in those filings, most filings tend to be pretty dull affairs visually speaking. So imagine our surprise when we came across this PowerPoint presentation that Abercrombie...
Footnoted goes to the dogs!
We’re chest deep in proxies today (really, all week) and even with both the brain behind footnoted and the baby working around the clock, Sonya, Theo and me are still not really managing to keep up with all of the filings that are coming in. Rather than outsourcing to India, where Morningstar has a...
Charlie Sheen and the SEC filing…
April Fool’s Day may be right around the corner, but this is not a joke. Time Warner (TWX) has decided that the little matter of Charlie Sheen suing Warner Bros. for $100 million, which you no doubt have heard about unless you were, um, dead, is material enough to mention in an SEC filing. Here’s...
Tightening the belt (or not) at Allergan…
When tough times hit, and companies and individuals alike cut back on spending, usually discretionary and big-ticket items are the first to go. As you might imagine, that can be bad news for a lot of companies — particularly one marketing breast implants, Botox and the modern equivalent of stomach stapling. And so it is,...
Jack in the Box loses count…
Some might remember the huge dust-up that happened back during the 2008 election when John McCain wasn’t sure about the number of houses that he owned with his wife, Cindy. Given the economy and the rising number of foreclosures, it wasn’t too surprising that the Obama campaign turned McCain’s comments into this TV ad. We...
