Bay Point, CA. 94565
September 30, 2014
Secretary
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Office of the Secretary
270 Park
Avenue
New York,NY10017
(also via corporate.secretary@jpmchase.com)
Re: Shareholder Proposal on International
Policy Committee
Dear Secretary:
Enclosed
please find my shareholder proposal for inclusion in our proxy materials for
the 2015 annual meeting of shareholders and a letter of my shares ownership. I will continuously hold these shares until
the 2015 annual meeting of shareholders.
Should you have any questions, please contact me at 1-925-643-**** or zhao.cpri@gmail.com.
Yours
truly,
Jing
Zhao
Enclosure: Shareholder proposal
Letter of Jing Zhao’s shares ownership
Shareholder Proposal on International Policy Committee
Resolved: shareholders recommend that JPMorgan Chase & Co. (the
firm) establish an
International Policy Committee
with outside independent experts to assist the Board of Directors in advising the
firm's policies and overseeing the firm’s practice regarding environment, human
rights, social responsibility, business ethics, regulations, legitimacy, and
other international policy issues that may affect the firm's operations, performance,
reputation, and shareholders’ value.
Supporting Statement
“Virtually
half of the CIB’s revenue today stems from international business activities
and has grown at a compound annual growth rate of 5% since 2010. More than 60%
of our clients are international. Of our total employees, close to 60% are
based in offices through EMEA, Asia Pacific andLatin
America.” (Annual Report 2013 p.42. CIB=Corporate & Investment
Bank, EMEA=Europe, Middle East and Africa.) ”What we can predict is that we are going to
have tough global competitors.” “Today, there are four very large rapidly
growing Chinese banks. They may be operating under less restrictive rules than
we are. They are ambitious, and they have a strategic reason to go global
(following their rapidly growing Chinese companies overseas).” (ibid. p.18) “By 2025, emerging regions are expected to be
home to almost 230 companies in the Fortune Global 500, up from 85 in 2010. Of
the 230 emerging region companies, 120 are expected to be in the China region.”
(ibid. p.24)
Although
the firm has a “J. P. Morgan International Council” (ibid. p.348), most of the
council members are not qualified or unable to perform their job. For example, the Chairman of the council Tony
Blair misled the UK and the US to the disastrous Iraq War in 2003; Council
member Tung Chee Hwa was forced to resign from Hong
Kong’s Administrative Head because Hong Kong’s people did not trust him, and it is a violation to serve a foreign commercial firm as
current Vice Chairman of National Committee of the Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference; Council member Gao Xi-Qing has the same ethical and regulatory problem as Vice
Chairman and President of China Investment Corporation. That is why although “[w]e’ve
been in China for 93 years” (ibid. p.42), the public only noticed the firm from such
unethical practice as the widely reported “daughters & sons project” to
bribe Chinese high government officers. This kind of
practice gravely undermines the firm’s legitimacy doing business in China. In the
case of the largest IPO on September 19, 2014, the firm facilitated the
corrupted conglomerate Alibaba to the U.S. market (for example, its main inside
investors include former Chinese President Jiang Zemin’s grandson; its boss
openly praised Deng Xiaoping for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen massacre).
Without
an international policy committee, the
firm under one CEO-Chairman cannot legitimately and ethically deal with today’s
complicated international affairs affecting our business. It is time for the
firm now to replace the merely decorative J. P. Morgan International Council
with an International Policy Committee.
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