When the fund became part of the Tocqueville family in 2009, "people called usup to say, 'Please don't get rid of the shareholder letter when you go there, ' " Ms. Kotis says.
While the presidential motorcade was en route to a second fund-raiser, a small group of protesters could be seen holding up signs which read, "Please Teach Us English" in protest over California's Proposition 227.