a couple of concerns, page-5

Showman,

Very nice and noble of you to defend a fellow CEO, after all you will bump into him at annual conferences and all. While I agree with a lot of what you say particularly the defamatory language and the giving him time, you did not address the very real issue of perception.

It is very hard for a CEO to talk up his company while the fasmily business is a net heavy seller. H and P are a small boutique broker on a national scale. Boutique brokers attract and retain clients by the quality of their advice. Are you suggesting that H and P were advising their clientd not to sell UMC but the clients en mass ignored this advice? Stretches the imagination. Are you suggesting that H and P had no control over their clients actions? Why be a client of a boutique broker and not accept their advice? Commsec and Etrade would be cheaper.

Matthew Hogan may well turn out to be an excellent CEO who just can't hold an audience at an AGM and needs his father to speak up for him, ( My mother says wonderful things about me.) but he really should address the perception of saying one thing and doing another.

Pagarsi