Anavex Life Sciences Corp (AVXL)

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If Missling REALLY cares about long-term shareholders, then he wouldn't let the stock price bleeding down like this and take 400K stock options for himself.

Anavex Life Sciences Corp has an outstanding Board of Directors comprised of individuals with many years experience in various fields. There are seven others beside Christopher Missling on the Board, one of which is Tom Skarpelos who is the founder of Anavex Life Sciences and the largest shareholder. Mr. Skarpelos hired Dr. Missling and gifted him many thousand shares of his own stock at that time. One would think that Mr. Skarpelos would be very careful in managing his investment here.

Granting of options would be a board action so stating "...take 400k stock options for himself" is misleading to say the least.

In my opinion, this award is most likely due to a financial milestone and not an annual award, otherwise there would have been options awarded to other Anavex employees as well and not just the CEO and Treasure.