What's Lazy At JPMorgan Is The Stock Price, Not Institutional Shareholders

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Mark Melin
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JPMorgan’s chief imperial commander, Jamie Dimon, has a reputation around the office as a man possessed with performance. Senior bankers are said to avoid the executive lunchroom because they might be confronted about a performance shortcoming or otherwise subject themselves to a dressing down in front of the troops. And yesterday, institutional investors now also know this sinking, deflating feeling. Dimon called JPMorgan’s shareholders “lazy” yesterday, characterizing them as “bad investors” as a move is underfoot questioning the direction of a bank that some think is undervalued and has had some run-ins with the law as of late. JPMorgan shareholders think…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.