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FINRA’s Wrona urges advisors to participate in regulatory reform process
The easiest way for financial advisors to have an impact on the regulatory reform process is to participate in it. That was the advice...
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Corporate governance and privately held companies, part 2
In my last post, I discussed some of the ways that companies contemplating an initial public offering or a possible acquisition by a larger...
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ICYMI – A roundup of financial crisis retrospectives
The 5-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy has sparked numerous retrospectives of the financial crisis (and the response to the crisis). Here are...
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Navigating the economy when the only certainty is uncertainty
Matthew J. Slaughter, Associate Dean for Faculty and Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Uncertainty. It is the one...
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How demographic shifts are changing the look and feel of retirement
Joseph Coughlin, director of the AgeLab at MIT. Courtesy: MIT As the director of the AgeLab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joseph Coughlin...
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TIAA-CREF’s Ferguson spotlights challenges, opportunities for retirement industry
TIAA-CREF President and CEO Roger W. Ferguson speaking at the IRI Vision Annual Meeting in Chicago. Courtesy: IRI “Retirement has become a source of...
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Franklin Templeton’s Doshier discusses retirement trends
Michael Doshier, Vice President of Retirement Marketing, Franklin Templeton Investments Michael Doshier is the vice president of retirement marketing at Franklin Templeton Investments. SmartBrief caught...
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Russell Investments’ Koenig sheds light on the methodology of constructing an index
David Koenig is Investment Strategist on the Research and Innovation team for Russell Indexes. David Koenig serves as Investment Strategist on the Research and...
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ICYMI – October 4
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… The Economist goes covert (sort of) to get a look at what Goldman...
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ICYMI – October 11
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… Stats guru Nate Silver takes to Grantland (wait … a sports site?) to...
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ICYMI – October 18
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… Reuters reports on an interesting perspective from NYSE Euronext executive vice president Roland...
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3 thoughts on the JPMorgan-Justice Department settlement
Three thoughts on the $13 billion settlement JPMorgan Chase has tentatively agreed to with the U.S. Justice Department: This is what happens when the...
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Russell’s Goodwin Talks About Using Indexes to Understand Risk
Tom Goodwin is a Senior Research Director for Russell Indexes. Tom Goodwin, PhD, is Senior Research Director for Russell Indexes focusing on helping clients...
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ICYMI – November 8
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… Adios Bart: The departure of Bart Chilton from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...
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Bill Clinton talks creative cooperation with Wall Street bankers
Globalization was quite the buzzword when Bill Clinton was in office. But to hear the former president speak today, it sounds like it is...
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Jeb Bush talks like a contender
For a man who claims he doesn’t want to be president, Jeb Bush certainly thinks he has the cure for everything that ails the...
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Financial markets industry “needs to get out of the newspapers,” says Robert W. Baird’s Paul Purcell
Paul E. Purcell, chairman, CEO and president of Robert W. Baird & Co., sees a lot of positive signs in the financial markets industry....
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SIFMA panel addresses how financial firms can serve individual investors better
Research firm Cerulli Associates forecasts that more than 25,000 financial advisers will retire or leave the industry by 2017. How the industry copes with...
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CME Group’s Terry Duffy discusses GFLC
Terrance A. Duffy Terry Duffy is the Executive Chairman and President of CME Group, which is hosting its annual Global Financial Leadership Conference next...
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10 takes from BlackRock CEO Larry Fink
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink was a featured speaker at the SIFMA Annual Meeting Tuesday in Manhattan. During his appearance, Fink shared numerous nuggets of...
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How to handle a crisis of confidence
Karen B. Peetz, president of BNY Mellon, is no stranger to crises of confidence. She served as a member of Penn State’s Board of...
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ICYMI: November 15
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and the world of finance… Lots of great insight from the speakers and panelists at the SIFMA...
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CME Group’s Blu Putnam surveys the global economy, talks Fed tapering
Bluford (Blu) Putnam Bluford (Blu) Putnam has served as Managing Director and Chief Economist of CME Group since May 2011. Ahead of the Global Financial...
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Gensler highlights progress on transparency
Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission As the clock ticks down on his time as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading...
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Ridge, Mandia sound off on cybersecurity
Tom Ridge might not be running the show at the Department of Homeland Security, but that doesn’t mean the former secretary isn’t up to...
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ICYMI – December 6
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… Buffett’s special investing sauce revealed: This paper from Yale University dissects the winning...
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ICYMI – January 10
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… Sign of the times: Remember when $50 billion was a lot of money...
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ICYMI – January 17
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… Hedge funds run by women outperform industry index: In recent years, female hedge...
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Wall Street in Davos – Pregame
A roundup of all the best financial news and analysis coming out of the World Economic Forum, which kicks off tomorrow in Davos, Switzerland....
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Wall Street in Davos – Day One
A roundup of all the best financial news and analysis coming out of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Are we...
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Wall Street at Davos – Day 2
A roundup of all the best financial news and analysis from Day 2 of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Global...
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Wall Street in Davos – Days 3 and 4
A roundup of all the best financial news and analysis from Days 3 and 4 of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos,...
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Investment exec reveals alarming stat about next-generation clients
The future of the independent financial services industry was the umbrella topic at the Financial Services Institute’s OneVoice 2014 conference, held this week in...
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ICYMI – February 7
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… RUKM!: The folks at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are incredibly tone-deaf because...
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ICYMI – February 14
How do you say “Bear Stearns” in Chinese?: Headlines about the credit markets in China certainly feel like a “Bear Stearns moment” is not...
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ICYMI – February 21
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… Gold? Silver? Or Bronze?: From a commodity standpoint, which type of Olympic medal...
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Experts offer tips on how financial advisers can optimize social media
There are financial advisers who use social media and there are financial advisers who use social media well. The experts assembled at the SIFMA...
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Smarsh CEO shares insights on social media compliance for advisers, broker-dealers
Smarsh founder and CEO Stephen Marsh A recent InvestmentNews survey found Smarsh to be the leading provider of social media compliance software for financial...
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ICYMI – March 7
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… Rough week for FINRA: Mason Braswell at InvestmentNews took FINRA to task for...
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SGX adds more Asian currencies to futures offerings, plots regional expansion
Magnus Bocker, CEO of SGX, briefs the press Tuesday in Boca Raton, Fla. Singapore Exchange is poised to bring on new Asian currency futures...
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Boca Briefing – March 12
Highlights from Day One of the 39th Annual International Futures Industry Conference in Boca Raton, Fla. Wetjen says CFTC’s spending priorities include spot-checking work...
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Trading Technologies unveils mobile-capable trading platform
The next-generation trading platform from Chicago-based Trading Technologies International Inc. will leverage both co-located servers and the cloud to provide unprecedented computing power and...