Brad Zigler, our exchange traded product/alternative strategies columnist, has a quibble (or five) with the way the gub'ment (pronounce with your best Michigan Militia accent) measures inflation. Zigler, managing editor of Hard Assets Investor ...
I am pleased to announce three new initiatives aimed at wealth managers, that is to say, you. If you haven’t seen it on our homepage, we recently launched WealthManagement.com, a new online community and marketing platform for wealth advisors. ...
Okay, that's my favorite headline of the day, courtesy of DealBreaker.com, a fun and irreverant blog. I don't know what to say other than the alleged goings sure as hell beats the imagination of even the best novelist. ...
Our UBS correspondent, John Byrne, is currently wading through UBS earnings, and waiting for spokeswoman Karina Byrne to confirm a few facts/analysis of perfomance. But, he writes, "it looks like at least two interesting things" unfolded. ...
Richard Bove, the sometimes controversial analyst at Rochdale Securities, ticks off a laundry list of problems that will be caused by a downgrade of U.S. sovereign debt in a note this morning. Interest rates will soar, as will inflation, the...
I received a press release this morning with the blaring "hed" (as we spell it in the journo industry): UBS LAUNCHES TWO INTERNET IPO EXCHANGE TRADED NOTES. The "dek" read: Two ETRACS Linked to the UBS Internet IPO Index Comprised of Twenty Social...
Our own regulatory gadfly and long-time legal columnist Bill Singer is at it again. In a blog at Forbes (Yup, he contributes there too. We have learned to share), Singer has a singular idea: Break up the SEC because it sucks...
Our long-time staff writer Halah Touryalai, who now toils for our "frenemy" Forbes.com, has a good story today, echoing a sentiment that has been rattling around the brains of many Merrill's advisors I know: "I hate that bank." ...
Last week our hedge fund analyst columnist got a few dissenting comments when he argued that Android (powered by Google, GOOG)would win the smartphone/tablet wars, even surpassing the cult-like iPad Apple (AAPL) line up. Well, here is another bold...
