Brokers

Financial Advice: Five Questions to Ask, Including the F-Word

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business


Jill Schlesinger

It seems like everybody is in the financial advice-business, but how do you know if someone is qualified to help you?

Brokers Abandon Wall Street

Posted 06.06.2009 | Business


The New York Times reported in April that the financial crisis was altering Wall Street as diminishing bonuses and loss of status (to say the least) a...

Brokers Abandon Wall Street

Wall Street Journal | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business


The number of brokers bolting from Wall Street is on the rise amid slumping markets and diminishing fees -- a trend that could augur lasting changes i...

Firms Taking Bailout Money Defend Retention Pay For Top Brokers

Washington Post | Tomoeh Murakami Tse | Posted 03.31.2009 | Chicago


Handsome pay packages for brokers totaling billions of dollars have turned the public spotlight on another corner of Wall Street compensation: retenti...

UBS Shells Out Big Bonus Bucks for Brokers

Bloomberg | Elena Logutenkova | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business


UBS hired a team of five in Dallas from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. with $4 billion under management, and a group of the same number from Morgan Stanley ...

The Hubbub Over Merrill Lynch Bonuses

Clusterstock | John Carney | Posted 12.04.2008 | Business


As background to all this, recall that Bank of America has promised big bonuses to brokers who stay at the combined bank for the next several years--b...

Sad, Scared Traders: The Global Financial Crisis In Pictures (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Nour Akkad | Posted 11.09.2008 | Business


After the United States began struggling with an economic crisis while the world watched, the crisis conditions spread rapidly into other countries an...

How To Get Along With Your Real Estate Broker

Pauline Millard | Posted 07.16.2008 | Living


Pauline Millard

Brokers are here to help you: The whole apartment-hunt process is like dating and in the end it's not about selling anything, but finding the perfect match.

Merrill Lynch To "Quietly" Cut Up To 15 Percent Of Workforce

CNBC | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business


Merrill Lynch is now planning to cut 10% to 15% of its workforce--excluding brokers--sometime in May, CNBC has learned. Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain ...

Brokers Suffered, While Customers Profited In 2007

New York Times | Floyd Norris | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The brokers' customers did reasonably well. The brokers did not. That is not the usual way of Wall Street. Two-thirds of a century ago, a best seller...