Jamie Dimon said he may consider leaving JPMorgan Chase if shareholders vote to split his duties as chairman and CEO, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Jamie Dimon said he may consider leaving JPMorgan Chase if shareholders vote to split his duties as chairman and CEO, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Shareholders will vote later this month at an annual meeting in Tampa, Fla., on a nonbinding proposal to separate the chairman and chief executive roles after a more than $6 billion trading loss last year raised questions about risk oversight.
At first, Dimon said he would not comment publicly on what he would do if the vote went against him, but when pressed he added that the worst-case scenario would be to leave the bank, the newspaper said Saturday, citing sources that attended a private meeting at the company's New York headquarters.
Results of the vote will be announced on May 21, but it remains unclear what the board will do if the proposal passes.
Among the investors who attended last Monday's meeting, the Journal said, were top 10 shareholders Fidelity Investments and MFS Investment Management, as well as TIAA-CREF Asset Management and Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Proxy advisory firms Institutional Investors Services and Glass Lewis & Co. said that the losing "London Whale" derivatives trades that cost the bank $6.2 billion last year showed the board had failed in its oversight of JPMorgan executives. The firms also recommended that some board members not be re-elected.
