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NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 23, 2001
Fast Track: Merrill Lynch's new hire courts the superrich

By Bruce Kelly
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 16, 2001
A top exec joins staff of consulting group

By Bruce Kelly
NEWS RIAS APR 09, 2001
Folio Institutional launches model portfolio service

Folio Institutional has rolled out a service that allows its RIA clients to tap into model portfolios run by other advisers who custody at the firm.

By Dan Jamieson
Preaching the economic gospel to inner-city kids
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 02, 2001
Preaching the economic gospel to inner-city kids

Teaching minority high school students about business is more than a job for Allen Shelton. It's a calling.

By James B. Arndorfer
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS MAR 26, 2001
Fee revenues cushion slump for broker-dealers

By Bruce Kelly
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS MAR 26, 2001
NASDR warns of potential online churning

By Sara Hansard
Financial golden boy loses some gloss
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS FEB 05, 2001
Financial golden boy loses some gloss

Once viewed as a facile innovator among the Windy City's financial exchanges, the Chicago Board Options Exchange is suddenly bogged down on several fronts.

By Steven R. Strahler
MetLife sharpens teeth to compete for business
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JAN 08, 2001
MetLife sharpens teeth to compete for business

Forget about Snoopy dozing on the doghouse roof while the financial world goes by; think junkyard dog instead.

By Michael Fritz
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS NOV 20, 2000
An exotic feast for investors

A growing number of companies are opening online supermarkets that feature a smorgasbord of exotic investments to sate the appetites of the newly rich and "moderately sophisticated" for venture capital, hedge fund and IPO deals.

By Jeff Benjamin
Short Interests: Lobbyists mull $3 million pension blitz
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS NOV 13, 2000
Short Interests: Lobbyists mull $3 million pension blitz

Washington lobbyists for the financial services industry were debating last week whether to pitch in $3 million for an apres-election ad campaign to get the $240 billion tax bill passed before the end of the year.

By Sarah O'Brien
Brown Bros.fund outlet for Europe
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS NOV 06, 2000
Brown Bros.fund outlet for Europe

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in New York has added more than traditional custodial services to its online offerings.

By Susan Barreto
Nuveen snubbed in bid to go upscale
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 30, 2000
Nuveen snubbed in bid to go upscale

John Nuveen Co. is enduring snubs as it strives for respectability as a money manager for the rich.

By James B. Arndorfer
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 09, 2000
PRODUCT WATCH: Ameritrade offers trading, account management tool

By Investment News Team
Taxing developments
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS MAR 20, 2000
Taxing developments

Three of the country's top organizations for tax professionals are urging Congress to repeal the alternative minimum tax, streamline capital gains taxes and worker classification rules and get rid of phaseouts.

By Mark E. Battersby
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS MAR 20, 2000
Europe's booming M&A market fueled by American know-how

By Bloomberg
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS MAR 20, 2000
Bonds quietly did quite well in '99

By Susan Barreto
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS MAR 06, 2000
Stable value, junk bond managers rise to the top

By Christine Williamson
Egos on parade as Wall Street ponders future
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS MAR 06, 2000
Egos on parade as Wall Street ponders future

Federal regulators have begun one of the most sweeping debates on the stock market since the New York Stock Exchange opened in 1817.

By Jeff Nash
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS MAR 06, 2000
Fidelity's online brokerage cannibalizing its fund biz

Research firm concludes Fidelity lost $2 billion of mutual fund assets to its brokerage business in the first seven months of 1999

By Frederick P. Gabriel Jr.
Hedge trimming buoys the goldbugs
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS FEB 28, 2000
Hedge trimming buoys the goldbugs

After nearly 20 years of watching laggard performance, precious metals investors are finally getting bullish.

By Peter Galli