Financial Services

Why Wall Street Loves This Gay Man

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Financial Services, Wall Street, Out on the Street, Gay Marriage, Networking, Marriage Equality, Business News

NEW YORK -- Todd Sears was just a little over a week into his first job on Wall Street more than a decade ago when his boss, a managing director, call...

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It's Lonely at the Top -- Why Peer-to-Peer Networking for Financial Services CEOs Is Critical

April Rudin | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Investment Banks, C-Level, Wealth, Wall Street, Insurance, Financial Services, Tiburon Strategic Partners, Investment, Ceo, Banking, Brokerage, Peer Networking, Business News

Within the industry, the Tiburon CEO Summit has a certain "mystique" about it. Where can a CEO turn for unbiased advice and camaraderie? Other top-shelf execs!

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For Wall Street, The Great Recession Continues

The Huffington Post | D.M. Levine | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Layoffs, Wall Street Layoffs, Proprietary Trading, Unemployment, Financial Services, Job Cuts, Wall Street, Great Recession, Banks, Video, Business News

It seems the world of finance is still in the throes of its own great recession. One hundred of the largest cities in the U.S. have shed a total o...

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Financial Services Should Take a Page From the Physician's Code of Conduct: First Do No Harm

April Rudin | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Fidelity Investments, Charles Schwab, Wirehouses, Private Wealth Management, Wealth, Wall Street, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Consumer Protection, Brokers, Business News

Financial services needs to fix itself and repair its relationship with consumers who have developed mistrust of an industry who has harmed them.

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Facebook: Is It Only A "Recreational" Drug For Social Media?

April Rudin | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Facebook, Facebook Timeline, Timeline, Social Media, Linkedin, Financial Services, Banking, Private Banking, Recreational Drug Use, Social Media Marketing, Twittter, Business News

If your firm is not fully engaged with each of these powerful tools, it is a losing effort to both attract new clients and retain existing ones. These platforms work because users are so addicted to them and it's now time for financial services firms and others to get addicted to them too.

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How Social Media Helps the 401(k) Investor

Beverly Macy | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Twitter, Financial Services, 401k Fees, Facebook, Mark Cortazzo, Social Media, Flat Fee Portfolios, Business News

Social media has changed nearly everything we do -- 401(k) questions are no exception. These days, when something doesn't seem right, savvy investors take to Twitter, Facebook, and blogs to discuss and get answers.

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Ex-SEC Chairman Defends Goldman: 'Nobody Really Puts Customers First'

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, Video, Greg Smith Goldman Sachs, Financial Services, Mayor Bloomberg, Arthur Levitt, Business News, Customer Service, Greg Smith, Business News

That old adage that the customer is always right might be true. Whether it matters is up for debate. “Nobody really puts customers first,” Art...

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Interview With a Philosopher: A Conversation With Keith Wyma and Tobin Senefeld on Goldman Sachs

Tom Morris | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Aristotle, Goldman Sachs, New York Times Op Ed, Financial Services, Wall Street, Goldman Sachs Fraud, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Occupy Wall Street, Tom Morris, Ethics, Greg Smith, Tobin Senefeld, Keith Wyma, Corporate Culture, Business Ethics, Business News

If Aristotle ran Goldman Sachs, what sort of press do you think the company would be getting these days? How would employees, past and present, describe their culture?

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Wall Street Has The Worst Pay Equality In America

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Women, Financial Industry, Gender Gap, Video, Earning Gap, Financial Services, Financial Sector, Wall Street, Gender Wage Gap, Sexism, Gender Pay Gap, Big Banks, Business News

Wall Street is one place where it pays to be a guy. For people in financial-sector jobs -- such as insurance agents, security sales agents, financi...

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The Least Trusted Industry In America

The Huffington Post | D.M. Levine | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Wall Street, Financial Services, Trust, Finance, Banks, Slidepollajax, Business News

Apparently that whole economic crisis thing made Americans a little bit wary of the financial industry. Finance is one of the least-trusted profes...

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Wall Street Wastes $280 Billion A Year: Study

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Stock Trading, Financial Sector, Financial Services, Dodd-Frank, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Philippon, George W. Bush, Financial Services Industry, Wall Street Inefficient, Big Banks, Video, Wall Street, Finance, Occupy Wall Street, Deregulation, Trading, Wall Street Pay, Financial Regulation, Business News

Wall Street seems to have learned a neat trick: how to make more money while producing less. Between 1980 and 2010, the U.S. financial industry nea...

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Wall Street's Average Cash Bonus Expected To Fall To $121,000

AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Video, Financial Services, Wall Street, Great Recession, Deferred Compensation, Compensation, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, New York's State Comptroller, Bonuses, Wall Street Bonuses, Business News

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Wall Street cash bonuses for 2011 are expected to drop 14 percent and profits are expected to drop by half for the second year in a ro...

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Waters: Boehner And Cantor Are 'Demons'

Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Video, Financial Services, John Boehner, Maxine Waters Financial Services, Maxine Waters, Maxine Waters Cantor, Maxine Waters Boehner, Maxine Waters Demons, Eric Cantor, Politics News

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) referred to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) as "demons" in a recent sp...

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Defragmenting Africa

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Women, Commodities, Customs, Developing Countries, Financial Services, Africa, International Development, Trade, Free Trade, Food, Trade Integration, Single Market, World News

Africa has integrated with the rest of the world -- mostly selling commodities like oil, minerals or cocoa -- faster than with itself.

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Auction 2012: How The Bank Lobby Owns Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Financial Services, Auction 2012, Lobbying, Lobbyists, ATM Fees, Tom Harkin, Dick Durbin, Credit Card Rates, Bernie Sanders, Big Banks, Cramdown, Video, Sheldon Whitehouse, Bank Lobby, Banks, Financial Crisis, American Bankers Association, Brad Miller, Politics News

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. When Washington puts policy on the auction bl...

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Why Does Wall Street Make So Much Money?

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: U.S. Economy, Bill Clinton, Wall Street Tax, Financial Industry, Wall Street Bailout, Ronald Reagan, Financial Services, Financial Sector, Income Inequality, Wells Fargo, George W. Bush, Big Banks, Barack Obama, Wall Street Compensation, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street, Financial Crisis, Wall Street Bonuses, Wall Street Pay, Michael Mayo, Glass-Steagall, Video, Business News

Payouts declined on Wall Street this year, as the major financial firms tried to steer through several quarters of lawsuits, layoffs, jittery markets,...

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Holiday Shopping Trends Predict How Post50s Will Handle Retirement

Big Think | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Healthy Behaviors, Baby Boomers, Longevity, Financial Services, Social Networks, Well-Being, Consumer Behavior, Retail, Retirement Planning, Fifty News

Are you done? How many more days? Tick tock, tick tock. A recent Rasmussen poll may give you comfort or a kick. The nationwide survey conducted Novemb...

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Banks At A Tipping Point, Heading For Decline

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Investment Banks, Layoffs, Goldman Sachs, Mobile Banking, Morgan Stanley, Job Cuts, Financial Services, Downsized, Atms, Chase, Banking, Citibank, Bank of America, Consumers, Retail Banks, Business News

Wall Street has lost its luster. Financial services -- the white-collar industry that has grown to more than 8 percent of the economy -- is at a tippi...

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A Silver Lining in New York's Tax Hike

Carol Kellermann | Posted 02.07.2012

If a temporary personal income tax hike is the price we pay for long-term reforms that enhance infrastructure, encourage job growth, and make the tax system more equitable, then it is a price worth paying.

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Running Against Romney

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: John McCain, President Obama, Michele Bachmann, Wall Street, George H.W. Bush, Financial Services, Finance, George W. Bush, Donald Trump, Herman Cain, Repubican Primary Race, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Republican Party, Barack Obama, GOP Frontrunner, Newt Gop Frontrunner, Politics News

Herman Cain's turn as the front-runner for the non-Romney division of the Republican Party's presidential primary seems to be winding down. The candidate most likely to take Cain's place? Newt Gingrich.

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Emerging Manager Programs: Not Just for the Emerging Anymore.

Carmen Ortiz-McGhee | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Pension Funds, Emerging Manager Programs, Institutional Investors, Financial Services, Call to Action, Latino Voices News

Our communities have all that is needed, the intellectual and economic capital, the strategic and political savvy to ensure our places at the table and our ability to generate real wealth for our communities.

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OWS: Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Jon Stein | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Money, Bank Reform, Occupy Wall Street, Better, Business Model, Slashdeclare, Products, Ows, Change, Movement, Startup, Financial Services, Bank, Finserve, Banks, Startups, Declare, Wall Street, Exchange, Business News

As consumers of financial services products, start to demand that your bank, investment advisor and brokerage join this movement. If they aren't willing to publicly declare what you deserve, you deserve a better company.

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Wall Street: The Kid Who Kills His Parents and Asks for Mercy Because He's an Orphan

Curtis Ellis | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Financialization, Investment Banks, Outsourcing, Financial Services, Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street, Free Trade, Financial Crisis, China, Politics News

Leaf through the yellowing archives of business journals and you'll find endlessly repeated the story of a ruthless yet heroic CEO who scoured the realm for "inefficiency" and magically made share prices rise by lopping off the heads of so many superfluous employees.

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The Pandemic Disease of the 21st Century Is on the Rise

Bernard Starr | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, Bill Maher, Twitter, Financial Services, Paranoia, Disease, Ethics, Pandemic, Vaccine, Cure, Facebook, Remedies, Illness, Civility, Civilization, Comedy News

Police recently ejected a woman from an Amtrak quiet car after 16 hours of non-stop talking on her cell phone -- a new record for a PACS symptom flare-up.

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The LinkedIn IPO Changes Everything

Beverly Macy | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Linkedin, Klout, Gravity Summit, Second Line, Social Media, Futurem, Investing, Financial Services, Startups, Technology News

Jump to May 2011 and corporations are just waking up to the fact that they better get smart fast because real-time social media is here to stay.

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