Talk:Josef Ackermann

Interesting Ommissions

I would strongly advise anyone looking through this article (as with all wiki articles) to view the diff pages.

Here are some blindingly obvious observations (so blindingly obvious that, to overlook them, would surely indicate a high degree of criminal immorality) :

1) Josef Ackermann is chief executive of Deutsche Bank and chairman of the Institute of International Finance board (surely, I DON'T have to explain what this means?). This is stated at : http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0d7c533e-0664-11dd-802c-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1

2) "Since his joining the company the revenue and size of Deutsche Bank has increased greatly due in large part to his contributions." By how much has the revenue increased? Without dabbling in any kind of scientifically objective analysis of the economic factuality of this assertion (which I doubt to be worth doing given how probably subjective it is), what are the real terms increases in revenue? And, by the way, is it not the case that revenue can often be (and often IS) a dishonest statistic to indicate the performance of a company or bank - what about the PROFIT? I suspect some obviously dishonest and underhand reporting is occurring here (if you are going to lie/mislead - at least put some effort into it!).

3) How much are the "substantial number of employees" which have been laid off?

4) Finally, I will leave you with the most important and unanswered questions left unanswered within this article : a) How much does he get paid? b) How much are his net assets worth? c) Are his bonuses correlated to the profit that the companies which he is associated with make - or is there no impetus for him to maximise the profit of the companies that he works for due to a lack of a "performance related pay" structure?

That's enough for now (maybe more comments are worthy dependent upon knowledge of his PAY).

DontShootTheMessenger ouch (talk) 20:19, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't know if all of those are relevent issues, but I will criticize this page for reading as though it was written by someone in Dr. Ackermann's office or Ackermann himself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.116.4.20 (talk) 05:15, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

I agree the article did read like it was written by a loyal employee of Josef. So I've made a few changes. In particular I've removed a statement without a citation. As CEO Ackerman is answerable to the shareholders. They are effectively his bosses, who could have him replaced. One of the main roles of the CEO is to help the share-price. So I think it is worth mentioning how the share price has done since he became CEO. Josef was happy to accept the credit for the bull-run (stock-price increase) between 2002 and 2007. However, if he wants to be consistent, we should accept the blame for the huge falls from mid 2007.

218.191.238.151 (talk) 09:48, 28 September 2009 (UTC)