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(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. used lavish training trips and Moroccan vacations to woo unsophisticated officials at the Libyan Investment Authority, influencing executives to make risky trades that led to a $1.2 billion loss...
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Thanks to rising home prices, the wealth of U.S. households rose 1 percent in the first quarter of 2016, to $88.1 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve. The hike comes even as ...
(Bloomberg) -- For the past two years, a commission made up of 19 high-profile people from the academic, political, business, and investment worlds has been busy devising a bipartisan plan to strengthen the retirement security and personal...
For many people, the hardest part of determining how assets will be distributed after death is sifting through estate planning terminology and documentation. Help your clients get started on their estate plans by reviewing these three basic...
(Bloomberg) -- Sotheby’s was in a bind. The auction house had won several top consignments for its bellwether spring auction, including a Jean-Michel Basquiat that sold for $7.4 million four years ago, by guaranteeing the sellers...
Not any old quarter.
A rare quarter minted in 1970 recently sold for $35,000 on online auction site eBay, ABC News is reporting. The quarter was one of a batch made in 1970 that includes a faint misprint on the backside. The batch was printed ...
(Bloomberg View) -- People have strong opinions about what constitutes affluence. Last week I ventured that U.S. households with six-figure incomes generally make the cut, given that they make up the top quarter of the income distribution. I...
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Urban legend goes that if municipalities raise taxes on the rich, the rich will just pack up their suitcases full of money and move elsewhere. And that's why they call it an urban legend. A new ...
(Bloomberg View) -- Inequality in the U.S. depends on how you look at it: Some groups of rich households, for example, have fared much differently than others. Such nuances are crucial in understanding the phenomenon -- and what policy makers sho...