Comments on: TIAA-CREF http://crookedtimber.org/2003/11/19/tiaa-cref/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Fri, 25 May 2012 00:14:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tim Buchman http://crookedtimber.org/2003/11/19/tiaa-cref/comment-page-1/#comment-8530 Tim Buchman Sat, 14 Feb 2004 19:15:52 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=604#comment-8530 Well, you can read a report on the 2003 CREF Annual Meeting at http://crefwatch.home.att.net if you like. The big news turned out not to be that there was over an hour of discussion of Socially Responsible Investing. Rather, it was that the meeting had to be rescheduled, the proxies resent (at our expense, of course), and this avoided a challenge to the November ballots being printed in the wrong order! The news for 2004 is that a rescheduling of the meeting to June, 2004 was stealthily announced on your Oct-Dec 2003 Statement of Account. That means the deadline for submitting pesky proposals passed on February 12, 2004. Now there's a rumor it will be moved to Charlotte, NC to further reduce attendance. Does shareholder (i.e. Participant) democracy look so bad now? Well, you can read a report on the 2003 CREF Annual Meeting at http://crefwatch.home.att.net if you like. The big news turned out not to be that there was over an hour of discussion of Socially Responsible Investing. Rather, it was that the meeting had to be rescheduled, the proxies resent (at our expense, of course), and this avoided a challenge to the November ballots being printed in the wrong order! The news for 2004 is that a rescheduling of the meeting to June, 2004 was stealthily announced on your Oct-Dec 2003 Statement of Account. That means the deadline for submitting pesky proposals passed on February 12, 2004. Now there’s a rumor it will be moved to Charlotte, NC to further reduce attendance. Does shareholder (i.e. Participant) democracy look so bad now?

]]> By: Mac Thomason http://crookedtimber.org/2003/11/19/tiaa-cref/comment-page-1/#comment-8529 Mac Thomason Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:14:06 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=604#comment-8529 Glenn Reynolds is trying to influence TIAA-CREF policy now? Glenn Reynolds is trying to influence TIAA-CREF policy now?

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