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NEWS OPINION JUL 23, 2010
Catch a rising star with four stocks on the move

Seven reasons we won't see a double dip
NEWS OPINION JUL 22, 2010
Seven reasons we won't see a double dip

It seems these days that half the headlines in the financial media fear a double-dip recession, as do half the conversations on Wall Street.

NEWS OPINION JUL 21, 2010
Recruiting wars at the wirehouses: Mid-year review

NEWS OPINION JUL 15, 2010
For fiduciary backers, fight not over

An important milestone has been reached on the path to the professionalization of financial advice with the inclusion of language in the financial-reform bill which would authorize the SEC to issue rules to extend the fiduciary standard to broker-dealers providing advice to retail clients.

NEWS OPINION JUL 13, 2010
Study This: Why a Fiduciary Standard Will STILL Come Up Short

NEWS OPINION JUL 01, 2010
Institutional arrogance at MSSB?

NEWS OPINION JUN 09, 2010
Clarification for indie advisers: Time to raise your benchmarks

Note to independent advisers: It's time to measure yourselves against a bigger stick.

NEWS OPINION JUN 08, 2010
The wall around the wirehouses

In one of my recent OpINion Online columns, I compared wirehouse management to communist regimes before the fall of the Berlin Wall

NEWS OPINION JUN 03, 2010
Goldman proves need for higher standards

While getting pilloried in hearings before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, representatives from The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. characterized their firm as a market maker, denied that they had fiduciary status, and displayed apparent bewilderment at the senators' questions about legal or ethical obligations to place clients' interests first.

NEWS OPINION JUN 03, 2010
Why wirehouse advisors think independent brokers are a joke

NEWS OPINION MAY 27, 2010
Fleeing the Wirehouse: Will the Big firms be able to change to meet the challenge?

NEWS OPINION MAY 27, 2010
Wirehouse Advisor: Do you have it in you to “breakaway”?

Take the time to figure it out!

A 'mechanical' approach to merger arbitrage
NEWS OPINION MAY 23, 2010
A 'mechanical' approach to merger arbitrage

There has been a significant increase in merger-related activity as the equity markets have recovered worldwide.

NEWS OPINION MAY 16, 2010
Don't ignore the death of a loved one

For better or worse, professionals rely on our society's standard conventions and accepted phrases to offer solace at a wake or funeral

NEWS OPINION MAY 14, 2010
When Monte Carlo analysis meets a black swan

In early November 2007, two investors met in the waiting room of their financial adviser's office. By chance, both Robert, 62, and Sandra, 78, had appointments to discuss their retirement financial plans.

NEWS OPINION APR 21, 2010
'Garden leave' policies are absurd

In the old days (pre 2004), firms would sue each other when an Advisor went from one firm to the other.

NEWS OPINION APR 14, 2010
Should I Stay or Should I Go?

NEWS OPINION APR 11, 2010
Level fees are right way to avoid conflicts

The investment advice regulation for 401(k) plans recently released by the Labor Department offers more than proposed guidelines for making advice available to retirement plan participants.

NEWS OPINION APR 01, 2010
Morgan Stanley <del>Smith Barney</del>

One year later, it's clear who's running the show

NEWS OPINION MAR 25, 2010
Brokerage Execs: You Ain't Tiger

Your Bad Choices Are Career Killers