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It is a question virtually every branch manager will one day face: What do you do when a top-tier producer decides it’s time to leave the branch and the firm?
Michael McNamara, McNamara Financial Services Firm: Commonwealth Financial Network City: Marshfield, Mass. Established: 1987 AUM: $306 million Number of Clients: 500 Education: Tufts, Boston College After graduating from college, putting in three...
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Nothing says “summer” like Claude Monet’s paintings of water lilies. Featured on our cover is “Nymphéas” (a type of water lily). One of the finest paintings in Monet’s water lily series, it sold June 17, 2007, at Sotheby’s “Impres...
With the Wachovia purchase of A.G. Edwards (for $6.8 billion) in the fourth quarter, it’s not just A.G. Edwards reps (some of whom fear that the AGE corporate culture will change) who are worried. So are acquired firm’s branch managers...
Most trusts-and-estates practices are devoted to the Windows operating system and related networking. The recent popularity of Apple products, however, may make you wonder whether Apple's Mac might offer some superior capabilities in a trusts-and...
We’re having a heat wave! Scorching prices—that’s what we see in Mark Rothko’s “White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose.)” It went for $72.8 million—the highest price of any contemporary work of art sold at auction. On May 15, 2007, at...
