Management consultants are now running top Wall Street firms.

Fixed Income: Where Have All the Good Bonds Gone?

After Enron wacked J.P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup, a Merrill merger with a mega-bank no longer seems inevitable.

Learn how to pick hedge funds for qualified clients?or other brokers will.

For the first time in its 115-year history, A.G. Edwards is cutting its workforce, but the St. Louis-based company says its broker force of around 7,300 will not be included in the reduction. The firm says it will slash 400 jobs, or 2.35 percent...

Some mutual funds let ordinary folk take advantage of the short selling and hedging options used by the big guys.

The bills for the excesses of the late great bull market keep coming due. Every month, more ugly news flows in, like the bills for a deadbeat who skipped town ages ago. Enron and Global Crossing are only the most obvious examples. The story of the...

With the death of the bull market, many are rediscovering the beauty of dividend-paying stocks.

Short sellers aren't popular with most brokers. But they're a good source of information on what could go wrong.

For fun, registered rep David Elias likes performing flying stunts—with his model airplanes.