1、Our rOur roadoad aheadahead WELLS FWELLS FA AR RGO&CGO&CO OMPMPANY|2ANY|2018 ANNU018 ANNUAL REPORTAL REPORT Cover:Wells Fargo customer Erik Gruber outside his new home in Philadelphia.Learn more on page 34.Contents 2 38 40 8 41 21 39 283 L E T T E R F R O M C H A I R O F T H E B O A R D L E T T E R
2、F R O M C H I E F E X E C U T I V E O F F I C E R A N D P R E S I D E N T S T O R I E S:O U R P R O G R E S S O N T H E R O A D A H E A D O P E R AT I N G C O M M I T T E E A N D O T H E R C O R P O R AT E O F F I C E R S B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S 2 0 1 8 C O R P O R AT E R E S P O N S I B I L
3、 I T Y H I G H L I G H T S 2 0 1 8 F I N A N C I A L R E P O R T S T O C K P E R F O R M A N C E 2 Dear Fellow Shareholders We are steadfast in our commitment to building and protecting the long-term value of the company.Looking back on my first year as chair of the Wells Fargo Board of Directors,I
4、am encouraged by the progress the company and our board have made as we build a better Wells Fargo for the future.Before I talk about the board,Id like to recognize the tireless efforts of our management team.Tim Sloan became CEO just over two years ago,and since then,with the full support of the bo
5、ard,he has been driving transformational change at the company.As CEO,Tims first priority was to initiate an extensive review to identify,understand,and resolve the problems of the past;to provide appropriate remediation to customers who were harmed;and to be transparent about our progress.We discov
6、ered a variety of issues,and even though the specifjc causes may have been different,some common themes emerged,such as the companys history of running businesses individually and the decentralized nature of certain control functions.I believe this review was necessary to help us serve our customers