It is clear to me that members of Congress don’t understand financial markets, much less fiscal and economic matters. New York Mayor Bloomberg quite rightly points out that some in Washington would like to force banks to spin off their lucrative...
I love reading the Leuthold Weeden research, Perception for the Professional (a.k.a. The Green Book). In its June edition, Leuthold's researcher Doug Ramsey concludes, "We continue to believe that this is a correction and the market is expected to...
Morgan Stanley will shutter 300 branch offices and slash as many as 1,200 jobs over the next year --- as a result of its joint venture with Smith Barney. http://bit.ly/d2nSrN
Our friend and long-time legal correspondent (and industry gadfly and proud of it, thank you very much) Bill Singer has an interesting blog that he posted on 1 June on our website. It's called, Outside Business: Why Employers Hate it. I am...
In truth, you probably don't know. As we have written many times, custodians are all about trying to help you figure that out, to help you create a succession plan. Yesterday, TD Ameritrade Institutional says it found that a majority of...
Some pundits are saying that the last decade was lost because the S&P 500 declined. But not all investments performed poorly. Of the 55 fund categories tracked by Morningstar, 51 made money, including many that delivered double-digit returns...