In my opinion, the best method for a CEO to make shareholders richer is to be good at wheeling and dealing. CEOs like Brian Dalton and Kevin Mcarthur (Tahoe and ex-Goldcorp CEO) are very good at valuing assets and structuring deals. These CEOs are good at shuffling paper around and making deals in a way that more wealth accrues to their shareholders. They look for undervalued assets and sell shares/assets when they are overpriced.
I guess I learn something new every day. Even the senior miners will pay money to shill companies to promote their stock. A site called The Gold Report has a list of the companies that they cover on their front page (scroll down if you don’t see it). There are some big names on there like Goldcorp and Nova Gold.
Disclosure: I own a lot of companies that ‘sponsor’ The Gold Report. Northfield Capital owns Goldcorp, Premier Gold, Queenston, etc. Altius owns Alderon and Millrock. I own Pinetree as well (they own a few hundred stocks; chances are, many of them sponsor The Gold Report). Sigh…
