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)

Couple comments
First, I again say I really dislike the panoply of templates which greet an earnest editor coming to the talk page .... Maybe it's worth it for the uninitiate, but it seems almost an insult to a semi-seasoned (but "non-organizational" on the whole, if one will) editor.

Second, to this article (but also many others; though I've just noticed the problem for the first time here), the Euro symbol "€" reads extremely poorly with many numerals following without space after it, as in "€9.4 millio" and others in this article. I know my eyes are weakening but it's often really hard to make out what the lead number is. It does work better with a space but that's of course logistically impossible (line breaks, for one reason at least, I imagine). Other fonts may be better but we're not going to change the main Wiki font. We could with effort change perhaps the particular Wiki rendition of the "€", but even that's daunting.

I'll try to find a more specialized page on which to follow up on this latter concern but wanted to note it here for now. Comments (on alternatives, for instance) of course welcome. (Or feel free to take it and run with it. Let me know if you do, and would.) Thanks.

I don't think I've found a Wiki forum to address the templates, yet, though I have voiced my gripe to some extent before. Building up a head of steam. Again, comments welcome, here or at my talk page. Swliv (talk) 14:36, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

What's his religion?
I think the article should mention something about his religious background, as other articles do and since it's informative and interesting to know. He might be Christian, but his last name and the fact the he got an award form the American Jewish Committee (here) may indicate that he's Jewish. Help anyone? Yambaram (talk) 15:23, 30 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Yeah, Yambaram, that is full right. But think about! What is His Religion? The answer is here: Mammon. That is the only real existing faith. And it was said in the Holy Script that a few jewish people believe the same, but that are exceptions. Money is the only religion in the world because money does not exist. But all people believe in it. Thanx for your attention. Tri-l (talk) 19:33, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

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