kevin4u2

How are you guys getting comfortable with the derivative risk on Wells Fargo's balance sheet? Perhaps this quote from the 2009 annual report will help answer your question. ...all banks are not created alike. We’re not a hedge fund disguised as a bank. We’re not a proprietary trader (which produces no customer benefit) disguised as a bank. Nor are we simply a mortgage company or an investment broker or an insurance broker or a credit card company. What we are at our heart is community-based, and relationship-oriented. We serve our customers online, on the phone or at our ATMs, and we welcome them into our 10,000 stores. We greet them on neighborhood sidewalks. We have breakfast with them at the neighborhood diner. We serve alongside them on local chambers, Rotary, nonprofit boards, at community events. We worship with them in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. Many of our customers know our tellers by their first names, and we know them by theirs. We want our banking stores to be more than just storefronts, but like community centers where neighbors meet. Best Regards, Kevin