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January 24, 2022

Capital One Financial Analysts Reduce Earnings Estimates for Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB)

Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB) – Investment analysts at Capital One Financial reduced their FY2022 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for shares of Schlumberger in a note issued to investors on Friday, January 21st. Capital One Financial analyst L. Lemoine now expects that the oil and gas company will earn $1.78 per share for the year, down from their prior forecast of $1.83. Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB) last released its quarterly earnings results on Friday, January 21st. The oil and gas company reported $0.41 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.39 by $0.02. Schlumberger had a net margin of 7.44{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} and a return on equity of 11.90{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996}. The firm had revenue of $6.23 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $6.09 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.22 earnings per share. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 12.5{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} on a year-over-year basis.

Several other equities research analysts have also recently weighed in on SLB. Oddo Bhf began coverage on shares of Schlumberger in a research report on Thursday, October 14th. They set an “outperform” rating and a $44.50 price objective for the company. Barclays reiterated an “overweight” rating and set a $48.00 price objective (up from $38.00) on shares of Schlumberger in a research report on Monday, October 25th. Oddo Securities began coverage on shares of Schlumberger in a research report on Thursday, October 14th. They set an “outperform” rating and a $44.50 price objective for the company. Benchmark began coverage on shares of Schlumberger in a research report on Friday, November 19th. They set a “hold” rating for the company. Finally, Zacks Investment Research cut shares of Schlumberger from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $36.00 price objective for the company. in a research report on Wednesday, October 27th. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and thirteen have assigned a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $35.00.

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SLB opened at $36.36 on Monday. Schlumberger has a twelve month low of $21.23 and a twelve month high of $38.53. The company has a quick ratio of 0.93, a current ratio of 1.27 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.05. The company has a fifty day moving average of $31.82 and a 200-day moving average of $30.61. The stock has a market cap of $51.00 billion, a PE ratio of 31.08 and a beta of 2.29.

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. FMR LLC increased its holdings in Schlumberger by 39.9{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} during the 2nd quarter. FMR LLC now owns 24,128,312 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock worth $772,337,000 after acquiring an additional 6,878,959 shares during the period. Clearbridge Investments LLC increased its holdings in Schlumberger by 32,434.1{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} during the 2nd quarter. Clearbridge Investments LLC now owns 6,022,064 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock worth $192,766,000 after acquiring an additional 6,003,554 shares during the period. Deutsche Bank AG increased its holdings in Schlumberger by 31.0{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} during the 3rd quarter. Deutsche Bank AG now owns 20,260,955 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock worth $600,534,000 after acquiring an additional 4,796,866 shares during the period. Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund increased its holdings in shares of Schlumberger by 82,708.8{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} in the 2nd quarter. Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund now owns 1,858,230 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock worth $59,482,000 after buying an additional 1,855,986 shares during the last quarter. Finally, 1832 Asset Management L.P. increased its holdings in shares of Schlumberger by 447.4{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} in the 2nd quarter. 1832 Asset Management L.P. now owns 2,015,458 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock worth $64,147,000 after buying an additional 1,647,300 shares during the last quarter. 74.71{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

In other news, insider Dianne B. Ralston sold 12,885 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, December 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $31.04, for a total value of $399,950.40. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Insiders own 0.26{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} of the company’s stock.

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, April 7th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, February 9th will be given a $0.125 dividend. This represents a $0.50 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.38{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996}. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, February 8th. Schlumberger’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 42.74{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996}.

Schlumberger Company Profile

Schlumberger NV engages in the provision of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production and processing to the oil and gas industry. It operates through the following business segments: Digital and Integration; Reservoir Performance; Well Construction; and Production Systems. The Digital and Integration segment combines the company’s software and seismic businesses with its integrated offering of asset performance solutions.

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January 24, 2022

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance wants to shake up India’s retail supply chain

Pashuram Verma was astonished to find a salesman from India’s largest conglomerate standing outside the house his tiny kiosk in Mumbai, which sells every thing from bread buns and eggs to cigarettes.

The salesman mentioned he represented JioMart, the on the internet shop of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, India’s biggest business. He encouraged Verma to purchase goods from the ecommerce web-site and presented discounts on biscuits, which the shopkeeper ordinarily purchases from a distributor.

“My enterprise is far too compact for one thing like JioMart,” he demurred.

But the 11m retailers like Verma’s, acknowledged as kiranas, account for the wide bulk of India’s retail market place, which some estimates say is the fifth biggest in the planet. Reliance has by now upended the telecoms sector and muscled into retail but is now looking to provide mother-and-pop retailers, threatening to undermine a process that has existed for decades.

The steep savings provided by JioMart and rivals these types of as Udaan, the country’s initially enterprise-to-business on line system created to provide kiranas, are lousy news for the 450,000 distributors that characterize fast-going customer merchandise groups these as Hindustan Unilever and Nestlé. This community of salespeople has usually provided kiranas with purchaser products, going to the merchants on a weekly basis to take orders for replenishment.

“The whole fraternity is in distress,” reported Dhairyashil Patil, countrywide president of the All India Shopper Items Distributors Federation. “Their livelihood has been challenged.”

Mother-and-pop suppliers accounted for at the very least 85 for each cent of India’s fragmented retail marketplace, explained Kanaiya Parekh, a retail expert at consultancy Bain, including that they “are still by far the dominant force where ever you go”.

India’s retail sector was worthy of about $800bn in 2019-20 and is projected to achieve $1.5tn by 2030, in accordance to consultancy Technopak. Ecommerce represents much less than 5 per cent of profits in the place regardless of surging in the pandemic, in accordance to Bain.

Ambani has reworked Reliance from an oil refiner into a conglomerate spanning strength to telecoms and has become Asia’s richest person. His reshaping of the enterprise has integrated growing the company’s retail device, which comprises 1000’s of merchants, Reliance’s possess solution traces and its ecommerce unit.

Bhavin Satra’s kirana has commenced acquiring solutions from JioMart, which was introduced in spring 2020, for the reason that of the big special discounts. The shopkeepers purchase from the JioMart Lover application as perfectly as JioMart’s B2C keep — whichever has the better selling price. “It’s not about the provider, it is about the rate,” he stated, comparing JioMart to conventional salespeople. “It’s significantly, a great deal cheaper . . . almost 20 or 30 for every cent,” he believed.

While India’s mom and pop shops still dominate the retail market

Udaan was launched five yrs in the past and has 80 for every cent of the sector for on line sales to kiranas, in accordance to a report by prosperity supervisor Bernstein. But whilst Udaan was the initially mover, Patil said it was the arrival of larger participant JioMart that experienced unnerved the distributors.

“After the entry of JioMart, factors have long gone really south”, explained Patil. “This is rarely found that these businesses are obtaining deep pockets and undertaking capitalists are investing in these businesses.”

“So they are burning dollars,” he complained. “The ordinary distribution margin is 3-5 for each cent. And these people today are discounting 15 for each cent.”

The improvements pose a difficulty for massive client brands. “The total aggressive edge of rapidly-transferring client merchandise providers is the distributor network they have, even in today’s digital planet,” claimed Angshuman Bhattacharya, who sales opportunities the India customer merchandise and retail follow at EY, the expert expert services group. “Remember that ecommerce is between 3 and 8 for every cent. For most shopper providers, the remaining 92 is coming out of classic distributors.”

Looking for safety from what they allege is unfair pricing, the distributors have taken their struggle to the producers. Immediately after sending letters of grievance, Patil’s federation in January threatened to prevent promoting some merchandise designed by Hindustan Unilever and Colgate-Palmolive in Maharashtra, India’s 2nd-most populous condition.

A man wearing mask walks past a Reliance Jio store in Kolkata, India — Reliance disrupted the telecoms industry when it released Jio, a low-value operator that undercut rivals © Debarchan Chatterjee/NurPhoto/Getty Visuals

Hindustan Lever claimed it was committed to making certain distributors gain “a honest return on their investments”.

“General Trade (GT) carries on to be our biggest channel and our Distributors (Redistribution Stockists) are and will continue being our valued partners in our quest to serve the requires of our shoppers across India,” the enterprise included.

Colgate-Palmolive stated it was “committed to forging effective partnerships with our distribution network to provide consumers”.

Bhattacharya mentioned price tag parity was anything “companies will have to definitely operate in the direction of in terms of making guaranteed that no one is small-improved in the over-all process”. Both Hindustan Lever and Colgate-Palmolive achieved the federation and the strike was averted.

Kiranas also face on-line challengers that could steal their consumers. These consist of fast supply organizations this sort of as Dunzo, which bring every day essentials immediate to clients. Reliance Retail Ventures bought a 25.8 for every cent stake in Dunzo this thirty day period for $200m.

But kiranas also deliver, and many are providing their smaller-scale logistics capacity to huge companies. The mother-and-pop stores now undertake about a person-third of the every month deliveries for Walmart-owned Flipkart, the corporation mentioned in September.

Satra has started off marketing to buyers in excess of WhatsApp but other people continue to be sceptical about heading on-line. A number of streets away, Verma turned down JioMart and opened an account with Udaan but he has yet to put an order.

January 24, 2022

Aviva adds human rights to ethical investment drive

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LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Aviva Buyers will broaden its definition of sustainable investments this 12 months to include things like biodiversity and human legal rights so companies contemplate the “entire picture of sustainability”.

Bonuses awarded to business executives really should also reflect how effectively sustainability targets have been achieved, Chairman Mark Versey wrote in his yearly letter to 1,500 providers in 30 countries.

Corporations in which the asset supervisor has invested need to deliver tangible and transparent progress on a broader definition of sustainability this calendar year, together with human rights and biodversity, he claimed.

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“Simply reducing emissions but allowing for the destruction of the rain forest to continue on will do very little to reverse world-wide warming,” Vasey said.

“Organizations need to undertake an built-in method for highest reward.”

The subsidiary of insurance group Aviva (AV.L) manages 262 billion kilos ($354.62 billion) of property and will now rank biodiversity and human legal rights along with local climate and govt shell out when it selects investments.

“We assume all organizations to build local weather transition ideas, and companies in larger-impact sectors ought to current these for shareholder approval,” Versey reported.

Firms should begin building voluntary disclosures based on local climate-related requirements staying drawn up by the new Global Sustainability Benchmarks Board, which was launched at the COP26 world summit past November, he added.

“We recognise the normal is however to be thoroughly made and would help a phased method to reporting, with comprehensive compliance by 2024,” Versey said.

Company govt reward designs really should involve “sturdy, stretching and externally validated sustainability targets” that are evidently joined to business technique, he added.

Past June Axa Financial investment Supervisors reported it was increasing its palm oil financial commitment approach to exclude providers included in big land use controversies or in leading to biodiversity decline owing to soy, cattle and timber.

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January 23, 2022

Global stock markets record worst week in more than a year

Global equities endured their major declines in far more than a year as major losses in Netflix shares accentuated a market-off in tech stocks that spilled into other sectors.

Buyers have raced out of speculative corners of the market as the Federal Reserve moves to tighten financial disorders. Share declines have been specifically extreme in the US, wherever quite a few of final year’s superior-traveling tech organizations are listed.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index fell 7.6 for each cent this week, its biggest slide considering that the coronavirus pandemic rocked US money markets in March 2020.

The blue-chip S&P 500 index, the intently adopted barometer of the $50tn US inventory market, shed 5.7 for each cent about the previous week. A lot more than two-thirds of the companies inside of the index are now in a complex correction — or down at minimum 10 for each cent from their record high — including 149 stocks that have declined 20 for each cent or much more.

The FTSE All-Globe index of made and rising market place shares has fallen 4.2 per cent given that final Friday, recording its steepest weekly drop considering that October 2020.

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Amid the most difficult hit US shares was Netflix, which tumbled 22 per cent on Friday following the streaming group warned subscriber growth would gradual significantly. The decline shaved about $49bn from its valuation, or around the market place capitalisation of food items team Kraft Heinz.

Tim Skiendzielewski, expense director at Abrdn, the $700bn asset supervisor, claimed a weak start out to earnings year had knocked trader assurance just as markets had been exhibiting signs of recovery just after an previously promote-off.

“At a time when buyers were broadly hopeful that we’d observed a bottom and would get into an earnings period that would aid relieve investor fears and give a lift to the market, Netflix’s report did the opposite, sending jitters by the marketplace that items won’t pick up from a need point of view,” he mentioned.

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The drawdown in equity markets prompted quite a few investors to buy derivatives to hedge by themselves from even more declines. Volumes of fairness set solutions in the US, which can spend off if a inventory or index falls in benefit, surged higher than 30m contracts, the first time in background activity experienced ever crossed that threshold in a single working day.

Investors had been significant customers of puts on State Street’s $420bn SPDR S&P 500 exchange traded fund, regarded by the ticker SPY. Around 6m set contracts on the ETF have been purchased on Friday, including a lot more than 1m that expired right now.

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“Some type of contagion from tech to the rest was unavoidable at some position,” explained Luca Paolini, main strategist at Pictet Asset Management. “When you have these varieties of losses they influence sentiment and almost everything else goes down.”

The change out of extremely valued and quick-escalating organizations these kinds of as Netflix on Friday marked the most up-to-date stage of a pullback that has reverberated across world wide economical markets, as traders grapple with a US central lender that is dramatically shifting monetary coverage.

Traders be expecting the Fed to increase fascination fees four occasions this 12 months and to end other stimulus steps that experienced aided propel inventory marketplaces considering the fact that the start off of the pandemic. That pivot from the Fed has been acutely felt in the $22tn Treasury current market, the backbone of the global financial procedure and the market place that serves as a gauge for which all other belongings are priced.

Yields on Treasuries have shot greater this yr, prompting a strong inventory market place rotation out of tech shares and into shares of organizations whose fortunes are pegged to the economic rebound from the shocks of coronavirus.

Those people higher yields have damped the enchantment of so-termed development stocks, whose valuations are reliant on future earnings that will not be acquired for a lot of years.

Even as Treasury prices firmed on Friday, extending a rally that commenced in the earlier session, the so-termed 10-yr actual produce continued to increase, briefly hitting minus .54 for every cent, its highest level considering that February 2020.

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Other property that had been in vogue have also had a turbulent start out to the calendar year as serious yields have surged from minus 1.1 for every cent at the conclusion of 2021. Bitcoin, a really speculative asset that achieved an all-time high in November 2021, has fallen 17 per cent in 2022 while an index of unprofitable tech stocks collated by Goldman Sachs has shed extra than a fifth of its price about the exact same time period.

“The equity marketplace has turn out to be quite bearish [over the prospect that] the Fed will be compelled to act,” additional Jim Tierney, a fund manager concentrated on progress stocks at AllianceBernstein. “The Fed has under no circumstances in the very last 20 many years — in most of our investing professions — been hyper hawkish, but the sector now is pricing in the concept that they are going to have to be.”

Stock marketplaces also fell across Europe, with the regional Stoxx 600 fairness gauge falling 1.4 for each cent for the 7 days, its third consecutive weekly decline.

January 23, 2022

What CEOs are really saying when they lash out against ‘woke’ America

This week, when BlackRock CEO Larry Fink defended his firm’s attempts to keep companies accountable for their environmental and social impression, he integrated a nod to his critics who’ve accused him of forcing a liberal agenda on businesses.

“It is not a social or ideological agenda,” he wrote in his closely watched annual letter to clients. “It is not ‘woke.’ It is capitalism.”

Translation: Never be angered by this do-gooder solution, Wall Road — this is just what is good for small business.

To be positive, Fink, whose firm has far more than $10 trillion in belongings less than management, is not mistaken: Scientific tests display that organizations with solid environmental, social, and governance norms tend to accomplish superior financially more than the lengthy time period.

ESG, or socially dependable investing, is a new lens by which corporations can be evaluated by examining them on non-economic metrics, such as their impression on the natural environment (the “E” in ESG). The social factor considerations companies’ interactions with workers, suppliers and prospects — not just stockholders. And governance encompasses how a firm comports alone on this sort of matters as govt fork out, shareholder rights, management and even its personal inner controls.

The messaging all-around ESG arrives down to this: Is undertaking the suitable factor worthwhile in and of itself, or only if it can help the base line?

“It can be a very little little bit of both equally,” states Jon Hale, the head of sustainability investigate for the Americas at Morningstar. “Sustainable investing…is attempting to enhance corporations by saying, ‘Hey, acquire care of your ESG-linked issues that traders utilised to not truly prod you to do. But also, let’s imagine about your broader influence on the planet.'”

Redefining ‘woke’

Larry Fink isn’t really by yourself. Elon Musk, regardless of running a massively effective electric powered motor vehicle company, has also decried “wokeness” as a “untrue advantage.”

Portion of the challenge is the way the expression, which originates in Black American English, has been appropriated by White conservatives. Where by staying “woke” as soon as meant becoming notify to societal injustices, conservatives often wield the phrase now as a cudgel to disparage progressive suggestions pertaining to race, gender and the ecosystem.

From that cultural and political backdrop, it really is turn out to be relatively radical to propose that companies should really do the right thing simply due to the fact it is really the suitable factor to do.

But just two yrs back, the leaders of Corporate The usa did just that. The Small business Roundtable, the major advocacy group for American corporations, broke with a long time of custom in 2019, stating for the 1st time that firms have to provide all stakeholders — not just shareholders — ethically, morally and reasonably.

In other words, businesses need to do what is actually right mainly because it is really ideal, not only for the reason that it’s superior for company. And all those who do not like it can acquire a prolonged wander.

That was Apple CEO Tim Cook’s information, back again in 2014, when questioned by a outstanding climate-modify-denying group about Apple’s sustainability steps. In an exchange that turned heated, in accordance to witnesses, a consultant for the conservative believe tank Countrywide Center for Public Coverage Analysis pressed Cook dinner at a meeting to commit to a slender focus on profitability, even at the expense of Apple’s sustainability aims. In reaction, Cook dinner, maybe the most delicate-mannered CEO in Silicon Valley, became agitated and shot the question down.

“When we do the job on producing our devices obtainable by the blind, I don’t look at the bloody ROI,” Cook dinner said. Later, he additional: “If you want me to do things only for ROI good reasons, you ought to get out of this stock.”

Telling climate-modify skeptics to divest was a fairly bold shift in 2014. 8 several years afterwards, you might be not likely to find Cook shedding rest around using the ethical superior floor: Apple has because turn into a $3 trillion organization and Cook dinner himself been given almost $100 million in full compensation previous yr.

Just as investors’ obsessive emphasis with quick-expression gains served condition the shareholder-primacy era, they will also play a vital purpose in the changeover to the stakeholder capitalism period, according to Morningstar’s Hale.

“Nearly every single community firm today is involved about their ESG overall performance in a way that they have been completely not five several years ago,” he advised CNN Business. The standard is no for a longer time just what firms can get absent with lawfully, he reported.

“If you happen to be producing destructive impacts on the earth,” Hale added, “it influences your brand negatively.”

January 23, 2022

BofA Revamps Wealth Management Product Teams Under Sieg and Knox

(Bloomberg) — Bank of America Corp. revamped management across its wealth-administration company, putting additional duties on latest heads Andy Sieg and Katy Knox.

Selected products teams ended up moved less than Sieg and Knox to superior align with consumer requires, the executives reported Thursday in an interview. Modifications went into result straight away.

Sieg, president of Merrill Lynch, is now dependable for the expenditure alternatives and personal retirement teams. Knox, president of the non-public lender, adds responsibility for the wealth-management banking and lending tactic device and the have confidence in professionals workforce.

“These adjustments are about streamlining our prosperity-administration firms and pulling merchandise capabilities closer” to the device, Sieg mentioned in an job interview.

The adjustments come as desire for advisers climbs and banking institutions bolster enterprises that serve affluent clients. Lender of The usa documented document year-more than-calendar year progress across its prosperity management organizations, like a 12{21df340e03e388cc75c411746d1a214f72c176b221768b7ada42b4d751988996} jump in profits to $20.7 billion, and $4.3 trillion in client balances at the conclusion of 2021.

Financial institution of America’s revamp “is accelerating expansion we’ve presently observed and receives us nearer to customer shipping and delivery,” Knox said.

It also follows the advertising of Merrill’s prime performers at the close of previous year as veteran leaders Invoice Lorenz and Paul Lampert prepared for retirement. Lindsay Hans and Chandler Root had been named division executives in their location.

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Keith Glenfield, who continues to lead investment decision solutions team products and platforms while adding duty for particular retirement, joins Sieg’s leadership workforce. Chris Adam, head of private retirement, will report to Glenfield.

Artificial intelligence has been a driver for the firm as it seeks to grow shopper engagement. The different financial investment small business saw a document $18 billion of client flows final yr, in accordance to the corporation. In reaction to the demand, the company is organizing on using the services of far more AI specialists and adding products to the system.

Also becoming a member of Sieg’s team is Nancy Fahmy, who will continue to lead alternate investments and the specialty asset administration team, adding responsibility for ISG specialists. Brian Partridge, head of ISG experts, will report to Fahmy, whilst Chris Hyzy will keep on to lead the chief investments business which manages nearly $200 billion in CIO portfolios across wealth administration.

Below Knox’s expanded job, Randy Takian, head of wealth administration banking and lending, will go on to direct the staff. Belief professionals will report to Jeff Busconi, head of items, service and platforms for the non-public bank.

Keith Banking companies who was vice chairman and head of the expense remedies team considering the fact that 2017, was named main expense officer for Bank of America’s pension and reward strategy investments, which full over $22 billion, according to the firm. Banking companies will report to Paul Donofrio, previous chief financial officer and present vice chair who took obligation for the options.