Collectibles -- say, a mint condition Joe DiMaggio rookie card or a 1956 "bathtub" Porsche speedster -- have always been popular with the wealthy. But never more so than now, according to the annual "World Wealth...
What does integrity have to do with superior portfolio performance? A lot, say researchers in a study released in May, which found that advisors who demonstrate high levels of moral and emotional competency...
Why have just one broker/dealer relationship when you can have three or four? Only one-third of affluent investors work with a single b/d, while 35 percent of investors are now working with two b/ds, and another 35...
Oscillation Productions is selling a CD called Playing the Market, a compilation of compositions based on patterns found in the stock market and other economic data. The album released in 2006 features 11 tracks, such...
St. Louis will officially be home to the new Wachovia Securities, after Federal Antitrust regulators approved Wachovia Corp.’s acquisition of A.G. Edwards on Monday. Wachovia says the proxy detailing the ins and...
A New Jersey Appellate Court ruled in favor of Smith Barney’s deferred compensation plan on June 15, reversing a lower court’s decision that said the firm’s Capital Appreciation Plan (CAP) violated...
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of 17 major investment banks today in an antitrust lawsuit filed by investors who claimed the banks manipulated the IPO market in the dot-com boom years between 1997 and 2000...
It’s a full circle move for J.P. Morgan, which is returning to its 1799 roots in lower Manhattan. On Thursday, the firm announced that it will move its investment banking headquarters to one of five towers to be...
What’s funnier than a hedge fund manager getting worked up over a garden hedge? Well, probably a lot of things. But in any case, James Chanos, head of short-selling hedge fund Kynikos Associates, is at war with...
The subject of workplace water-cooler conversations could become increasingly financial in nature. That’s because, when it comes to retirement planning, employees with 401(k)s and other defined contribution...
