Warren Buffet, in his widely anticipated
Funds are in dire need of "truly independent directors" who are willing to fire investment managers who overcharge on fees or fail to put shareholder interests first, Buffet said in his report, which went out this weekend. CEOs of fund companies are grossly overpaid, he added, holding directors, themselves richly paid, to blame. Buffet also referred to the sale of
The real "acid test" of whether current investigations into Wall Street and investment management firms will lead to meaningful change, Buffet said, is whether firms are willing to bring the pay scales of their chief executive officers back down in line with reality. "To date," Buffet wrote, "the results arent encouraging."
