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Mike Clowes

Mike was founding editor of Pensions & Investments in 1973 and then Editorial Director of P&I and InvestmentNews from 1998 to 2006.

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Resolving complaints shouldn’t require acrobatics

Sometimes I wonder how our corporations lead the world. Seriously, are foreign companies even worse at customer service than ours?

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Health care plan makes for interesting reading

I like to read important proposed legislation. Actually, I don't so much like it — the text is often mind-numbing — but I make myself do it because I think that it is important.

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Time to abolish quarterly earnings estimates

The Securities and Exchange Commission should immediately accept one recommendation of a bipartisan panel established by the U.S.

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Monday Morning: Advisers should take a cue from physicians

Financial planners should consider themselves financial physicians and pattern their services on those of doctors, according to Meir…

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Monday Morning: Service promises to time market shifts

Market timing has figured prominently in news reports of the mutual fund scandals in the past few weeks,…

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Monday Morning: Fund bigwigs risk it all for small potatoes

Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of the burgeoning mutual fund scandal is that the gains from the market-timing…

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Monday Morning: Investors putting far too much into CDs

Americans still put the largest share of their savings ($466 billion in 2002) into housing, according to the…

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Monday Morning: History less of a guide this time around

A few days after I wrote my last column, which argued that the market recovery still has some…

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Monday Morning: Looks like the market has room to grow

Just as I was thinking the stock market recovery was perhaps getting ahead of itself, along comes a…

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Monday Morning: Keeping the clients’ liabilities in mind

The key question for financial planners isn’t: What should the client’s long-term asset allocation be? Nor is it:…