It sounds nice: Making money by investing in companies guided by enlightened executives. But do companies that play nicely really outperform those companies who are controlled by selfish and greedy executives? The Corporate Library chief analyst...
According to studies by McKinsey & Co., institutional investors are willing to pay a 12 percent to 14 percent premium for well-governed companies in North America and Western Europe. At Registered Rep.'s request The Corporate Library (TCL) has...
We are all familiar with Murphy's Law: A satirical proposition stating that if there is a possibility for something to go wrong, it will go wrong. But this does not always have to be a bad thing. If you are prepared to fix what goes wrong quickly...
Talk about playing hardball. Back in 1990 when Nell Minow was at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a corporate governance watchdog, she was confronted with the task of having to call a board member of Aon Corp. to tell him that ISS had to...
According to the FPA's 2005 Compensation and Staffing Study, revenue at independent financial advisory firms grew by 25 percent on average in 2004. The firms also added 21 new clients and increased assets by $28.9 million, on average. Seems only...
When it comes to client-advisor communications about charitable giving, something is amiss. That, at least, is the conclusion of a survey conducted by The Philanthropic Initiative of Boston. The study found that half of all advisors say they...
For Darcy Bhatia, there's no such thing as too much good advice. Once a month, Bhatia, a partner at Highmount Capital, a three-year-old New York-based multifamily office and wealth management firm, meets for three hours with a group of 17 other...
David Penn joins Smith Barney, effective November, as director of Investment Products at the firm's Global Private Client Group. He will be responsible for oversight of all Smith Barney Investment products. Penn joins the firm after 21 years with...
Lawyers, Drugs and Money: Consuelo Marquez, an ex-Lehman Brothers broker who worked at the firm from 1995 to 2000, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan in August to conspiring to launder roughly $11 million in drug money for a former...