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Long-short funds really delivering?

September 4, 2008 — 1:36pm ET | By Jim Kim
The conventional wisdom at the moment is that long-short funds are in heavy demand. According to Morningstar, about 90 money management firms offer more than 200 products applying a 130/30 or... Read more...

More financial advisors hiring psychologists

August 5, 2008 — 2:30pm ET | By Jim Kim
There was once a day when advisors used to give clients a lame risk tolerance questionnaire. The industry has certainly changed. Now advisory firms are adding psychologists to their staffs, to help... Read more...

Citigroup works to keep advisers in house

May 7, 2008 — 6:59am ET
Citigroup certainly got a lot of ink during the credit crunch. We read a lot about disgruntled shareholders, but not a lot about upset... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Sanford Bernstein bearish on investment banks; JPMorgan estimates cut by Goldman Sachs analyst; and much more...

February 29, 2008 — 7:59am ET
Company News:> Swiss bank defends shut down of Wikileaks site. Article > Freddie Mac posts $2.5 billion... Read more...

Citigroup to list on Tokyo exchange

February 21, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

There have been numerous reports, mainly out of Japan, that Citigroup intends to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. This makes a lot of sense. For one thing, it is trying to Read more...

MFS role in buyout process draws interest

December 13, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Investment News has an article suggesting that MFS management was given a strong hand in Read more...

Small BDs wary of a combined SRO

November 26, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

While the big brokerage firms have been clamoring for years for a single SRO, the case is a bit murkier for... Read more...

Is the branch building boom ending?

November 16, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Consumer banking in recent years has been all about bricks as well as clicks. Banks seemed to be in a branch building frenzy. Which raised a... Read more...

SEC not giving up on hedge fund regs

November 7, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

The Securities and Exchange Commission seems to be on the defensive when it comes to hedge fund oversight. On the one hand, recent court decisions have slapped it hard for its previous efforts. On... Read more...

Kickback scandal raises issue of independent boards

October 30, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Just about as soon as news hit that the SEC was looking into the third-party firm kickbacks, the cries for independent boards resurfaced with a vengeance. Recall that fund activists had used... Read more...

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