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CARSON HELPS CORPORATIONS READ INSTITUTIONS’ PULSE: SHAREHOLDER SLEUTHS FLYING HIGH BY KEEPING EAR TO THE GROUND

When Ford Motor Co. wanted to know how its plan to spin off Associates First Capital Corp. would…

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MURIEL SIEBERT

Chairman, Siebert Financial Corp. The 65-year-old Wall Street fixture and discount brokerage head says women and minorities have…

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POOR MAY BE WITH US, BUT PLANNERS NOT WITH THEM: PRO BONUS BEATS PRO BONO

Lawyers have Legal Aid. Physicians have Doctors without Borders. Even accountants have been known to give in to…

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Sam Zell Interview

Chairman, Equity Office Properties, Equity Residential Properties Trust and Manufactured Home Communities Inc.

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NYC TO CFP: DROP DEAD; CASE WORKERS ARE FINANCIAL PLANNERS TOO – BOARD CAVES IN TO CITY, MULLS HELPING TRAIN BUREAUCRATS

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s apparently the new strategy of the Certified Financial Planner Board…

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GET’EM IN THE DOOR, AND KEEP SELLING: TAX PREPARER REVS UP EFFORT TO BE KNOWN AS FINANCIAL HOME DEPOT

Gilman & Ciocia Inc. has stepped up its pursuit of the millionaire next door. The New York-based financial…

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BIG CHANGE IN DIRECTION FOR FUNDS THAT DARE NOT SPEAK THEIR NAME; FORGET, SHH, STEADMAN: NOW THEY’RE AMERITOR

A rose by another name may smell more sweet, but investors may want to watch out for thorns.

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  • April 12, 1999

SURVEY PUTS MEDIAN AT $115,000: PLANNER PAY TAKES 13% CLIMB

Financial planners rode the bull market to a 13% surge in income last year, earning a median $115,000 before taxes, according to a salary survey by InvestmentNews. They would have earned a lot more, though, had they spent more time on fewer, but more lucrative, clients, one consultant insists.

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FUNDS, BROKERS FINALLY INTO THE BLACK: AFRO-AMERICAN INVESTORS, THAT IS, AS MARKET HEATS UP

As a broker at Legg Mason Inc., Eugene Profit never found enough time to do what he really…

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FATTENING WALLETS TOPS SLIMMING THIGHS: A QUARTER OF AMAZON.COM’S TOP 25 SELLERS ARE FINANCIAL BOOKS, AS MARKET DEMANDS MORE STOCK, BOND, LIFE ADVICE

When McGraw-Hill reissued the investment bible “Security Analysis” two years ago, it sold a very respectable 32,000 copies.