Fun and games at the JP Morgan Chase annual meeting

Jamie Dimon will keep his jobs as chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co.  According to the LA Times shareholders overwhelmingly voted him back onto the board as well as approving executive compensation packages. Shareholders voted only 40% in favor of a nonbinding proposal to split the jobs of chairman and CEO. Final vote tallies will be filed later with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

But shareholders at the bank’s annual meeting in Tampa, Fla., took the opportunity to confront Dimon about the company’s recently disclosed $2-billion loss and 12% stock plunge.

Larry Evanoff, 54, a retiree from Tampa, said he was concerned “about what controls are in place to prevent an incident like this from happening in the future. It seems like the risk management at some level would have brought this to someone’s attention” earlier, he said during the meeting.

During the shareholder meeting, Dimon reiterated that JPMorgan’s mistakes were “self-inflicted” and that “this should have never happened.”  But, he added, “no clients were affected. No customers suffered as a result as our mistakes.”

Find out more at http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-jpmorgan-dimon-chairman-20120515,0,2674432.story