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Strike for shareholders: bonuses despite the loss of billions – Deutsche Bank reveals a crazy system

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Bonuses despite billion dollar losses – Deutsche Bank reveals a crazy system

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Deutsche Bank again makes billions in losses

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Deutsche Bank recorded a loss of 5.7 billion euros for the past year. While revenues fell again, costs rose to more than 25 billion euros, among other things due to the restructuring of the group.

Deutsche Bank reports a billion dollar loss – for the third time in five years. But while shareholders suffer, management is rewarded with millions of bonuses. That is not in the interest of the owners.

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OThere is no doubt that being the head of Deutsche Bank is hardly subject to amusement tax. In the past year and a half Christian Sewing may have felt his salary to some extent as compensation for pain and suffering. The pressure on him from investors and supervisors was as high as the public criticism that was pounding against him due to the persistent misery of his institute.

But even if the management makes every effort: The success has so far been lacking. For 2019, the institute had to report the third billion loss within five years. This is a tragedy for the shareholders: Not only that the papers are barely worth anything and their shares have been watered down due to numerous capital increases. The shareholders hardly get any dividends.

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But the board of directors: the bonus is rewarded. In this way, management has achieved all key figures and is therefore fully entitled to its variable remuneration. This is a joke in the face of a loss of billions – even if it was caused by restructuring. All in all, the members of the Executive Board are to receive variable remuneration of EUR 13 million. That’s about half of the bonuses from the previous year.

At that time, however, the bank had reported a profit for the first time in years. In the previous years, when losses had also been incurred, the board had voluntarily waived this. An insane system reveals that management is entitled to the entire performance-related remuneration despite the loss of billions. This can hardly be conveyed to small shareholders. It doesn’t help much that the majority of the owners have agreed to this – these are mostly institutional investors.

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