The Finger Family, based in Houston, owns more than 1 million shares of Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and has risen to express its opinion about who should be the company's new CEO: someone from outside the company.
In a letter to the company's shareholders filed with the SEC, the Finger family raised a number of fantastic points about why promoting from within is a horrible, horrible idea. In a way, it's so obviously not the way to go that it's a tribute to the board's incompetence that this discussion even has to be had. But here are a few of the Finger family's points:
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