Equity analyst Michael Webber was not physically present when shipowners wooed investors this week at a Florida financial conference, but one could be forgiven for sensing his spirit in the room.
It was, after all, an investment conference sponsored by Noble Capital Markets, not Webber’s Wells Fargo Securities.
But corporate governance quickly emerged as a theme and, when it does, Webber’s periodic “scorecard” — a ranking of public owners’ corporate practices — usually gets a mention.
