It's remarkable, the amount of stupid ideas that emanate from Washington, D.C. I like today's article in the New York Post, "Crippling stox-trade tax is DC's dopiest idea of 2009." ...
Value Line Investment Survey was one of --- if not the --- best investment newsletter for many decades. Well, until Morningstar and other websites ate its lunch and, well, until Jean Buttner, CEO and heir to the company's helm, appointed by her...
We’ve been polling wirehouse financial advisors about how satisfied they are with their firms for 19 years now. And, once again, I am struck by how optimistic—or is it ambivalent?—financial advisors at the big firms are. On the one hand, FAs at...
Obviously, the dramatic upheaval that changed the landscape of Wall Street is having some negative effect on advisors at major firms. A Schwab survey, released this morning, of 200 FAs at 15 "major full-service firms," says that 59 percent of the...
