Harvard MBAs: When Fewer Take Jobs On Wall Street, It May Indicate A Rising Stock Market
Fewer Harvard M.B.A. graduates took jobs on Wall Street this year than in the past as a result of the sharp contraction in the financial services indu...
Fewer Harvard M.B.A. graduates took jobs on Wall Street this year than in the past as a result of the sharp contraction in the financial services indu...
David Paul | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business
With the announcement of record Wall Street bonus pools and rising credit card fees, it is time to sit back and see where we go from here.
Trey Ellis | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business
Breaking up the banks to ensure that never again can the greedy few throw an entire planet into a Depression is not only a logical step but also smart, popular politics.
Norb Vonnegut | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
What can investors do when their hedge funds implode? The Galleon scandal puts a fine point on this question.
ft.com | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
John Meriwether, the hedge fund manager and arbitrageur behind Long-Term Capital Management, is in the process of setting up a new hedge fund -- his t...
Norb Vonnegut | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
Money managers are always trying to get an edge. But how many have crossed the line with inside information?
Richard Trumka | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
We're gathering outside the American Bankers Association meeting to demand reform that will allow us to rebuild our communities, our lives and the real economy. We've got a lot to rebuild.
Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
The name of the informant who tipped off authorities to one of the largest insider trading cases in history has surfaced. According to The New Yor...
Dan Solin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
Are members of the securities industry inherently evil? Obviously, it would be unfair to make such a blanket characterization, but sometimes you really have to wonder.
Robert Lenzner | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
Main Street Americans are struggling to pay their bills, while Wall Street executives are getting record bonuses. Two Americas; trust me it's more than just a campaign slogan.
The New York Times | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
The Wall Street giants that received a financial lifeline from Washington may have no compunction about paying big bonuses to their dealmakers and tra...
Bloomberg | By Joshua Gallu and David Scheer | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
Federal investigators are gearing up to file charges against a wider array of insider-trading networks, some linked to the criminal case against billi...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
The Boston Globe takes a look at how hedge fund managers are reclaiming some clout in Washington after last year's economic meltdown. The paper repor...
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER and CANDICE CHOI | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — One of America's wealthiest men was among six hedge fund managers and corporate executives arrested Friday in a hedge fund insider tr...
Reuters | Grant McCool | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - One of two former Bear Stearns managers indicted for fraud over the collapse of hedge funds in 2007 feared a "blow up risk" to in...
Telegraph | James Quinn | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
The poll will fuel the ongoing debate as to whether London or New York is the best place to do business for financial communities, amid recent reports...
Dan Solin | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
Wealthy investors can be enticed to buy "alternative investments" like hedge funds and private equity deals. How is that working for them? Not well.
AP | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — House lawmakers crafting legislation to overhaul the system of financial regulation are focusing on the key elements of investor pr...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
There were those who expected the financial-services industry to slink away in embarrassment after the setbacks of the past year. These people misjudged us.
AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Regulators on Thursday proposed rules designed to stem conflicts of interest and provide more transparency for credit rating compan...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
Never was the G-20 intended to be anything else than a technical forum meeting twice a year. It has no power, no administration, let alone any authority.
Evening Standard | Paul Waugh | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business
This happy band of G7 finance ministers looked perfectly relaxed as they arrived for their gathering in Washington in April 2007. But it now turns ...
Nathan Lewis | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
Goldman has been making its money somewhat like a hedge fund: by buying and selling securities in the secondary market for profit. Why this activity should be government subsidized, I don't know.
Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business
European bank losses were as high as the U.S. They used the same compensation system, and their fragmented and ineffective regulatory system shares responsibility for the crisis.
John Thornton | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
In Micro 101, we learn that such "public goods" as clean air and national defense will not be produced in sufficient supply exclusively by market forces. Allow for the sake of argument that journalism is such a good.
nytimes.com | Cyrus Sanati | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business