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- Goldman's Board Is Getting Too Cozy
- Financial journalists have focused a lot on Goldman Sachs GS over the past few weeks.Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone kicked over a hornet's nest by calling the firm a "vampire squid," pointing out a number of facts he suggested led to the conclusion that Goldman has received preferential treatment from...
- External links 2009-08-12
- Plea to Dismantle Broadridge Monopoly
- Last month, I wrote to Chairman Mary Schapiro of the SEC about dismantling the monopoly Broadridge BR enjoys counting electronic proxy votes for all US public companies.Wednesday, I wrote to Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL), who serves on the Senate Banking Committee, about the matter. by Eric Jackson
- External links 2009-08-06
- SEC Should Break Up Broadridge Monopoly
- From: Eric JacksonSent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:00 PMTo: 'chairmanoffice@sec.gov'Subject: Breaking Up the Broadridge BR MonopolyDear Chairman Schapiro: by Eric Jackson
- External links 2009-07-17
- When Will We See Real Change in BofA's Board?
- Last April, all eyes were on the Bank of America BAC shareholders meeting.Many expected CEO Ken Lewis to lose the title of chairman -- which he did. But others, including me, expected that such a result might be a precursor to Lewis losing his job entirely and to other changes...
- External links 2009-07-02
- BlackRock's Power to Influence
- BlackRock'sBLK announcement last week that it would purchase Barclays Global Investors from U.K. bank BarclaysBCS for $13.5 billion confirmed that BlackRock would yield an enormous influence on corporate America.In fact, the combined firm will own $2.8 trillion in assets, twice the size of its nearest rivals State Street STT and...
- External links 2009-06-18
- Why Is Bank of America So Bad at Picking Its Leaders?
- Reports are out Wednesday that several of the candidates under consideration for the top job at Bank of America BAC have called on the board to consider breaking up the bank. They are having none of it. As a result, the CEO search for Ken Lewis' replacement continues. All in...
- External links 2009-12-03
- 7 Steps Towards Real Free Market Capitalism
- Market commentators and the White House have been quick to blame last year’s economic meltdown on a free market run amok. And they’ve used that false assumption to justify their unprecedented response of government intervention and increased regulation. But we’ve never really had free market capitalism in...
- External links 2009-11-11
- MF Global: A Nice Recovery Play
- MF Global MF is a broker of exchange-listed futures and options. It sank 95% last year amidst a U.S.-based trading scandal that led to questions about risk oversight. The former CEO ended up resigning. However, it was a case of shareholders overreacting and tossing the baby out with the bath...
- External links 2009-04-27
- Thain's Undoing: Thinking He's Worth It
- The stunning announcement of John Thain's departure from Bank of America BAC Thursday, less than a month after merging Merrill Lynch MER into the bank, would have been unthinkable a few weeks ago.After announcing the shotgun marriage of Merrill Lynch with Bank of America in September, hours after Lehman Brothers...
- External links 2009-01-25
- Where Citigroup Went Wrong
- Citigroup C is a mess.From the moment Wells Fargo WFC snatched Wachovia from under Citi CEO Vikram Pandit back in October, Citi has stumbled. by Eric Jackson
- External links 2009-01-15
- The Reemergence of MF Global
- MF Global MF is the leading exchange-traded futures and options broker with a global footprint. It emerged following a spin-out from the large British hedge fund MAN Financial several years ago. It went public in the summer of 2007, before the two Bear Stearns hedge funds failed in August that...
- External links 2009-05-17
- Hedge Funds Not as Weak as Media Portrays
- For the last few months, the media has portrayed the hedge fund industry as in desperate need to hang on to as much capital as possible. Hedge fund limited partners have purportedly been lining up demanding breaks on fees and access to capital in the future -- and getting them....
- External links 2009-05-08
- Warren Buffett Should Also Face Hard Questions
- I was intrigued by two articles by Doug Kass and David Morrow reviewing the Buffett/Berkshire (BRK.A) shindig over the weekend .Both point out that Buffett gets a free pass at these get-togethers over the years as well as from the press in general. Neither says this out of malice. They...
- External links 2009-05-08
- Bank of America, Citi Need New Leaders
- Bank of America BAC piled too much on its plate in terms of acquisitions -- especially the most recent ones that are so much larger than the little retail branch acquisitions that have been their bread-and-butter through their history.However, there's a simple answer to their CEO question: he should leave....
- External links 2009-05-05
Additional Resources
- Buffett's Buffet: Who's Really Paying for the Pricey Meal?
- Salida Capital, a small Canadian fund, will pay $1.68 million which goes to charity to dine with the Oracle in New York. But who picks up the tab?For months, some of the brightest financial minds in the world have been debating whether there is an imminent threat of inflation thanks...
- External links 2009-07-16
- FTI Consulting Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call ExcerptFTI Consulting Inc. FCN Q1 2009 Earnings Call April 29, 2009 8:30 am ET Executives Jack Dunn - Chief Executive Officer Dennis Shaughnessy - Chairman Jorge Celaya - Chief Financial Officer David Bannister - Chief Administrative Officer Dom De Napoli - Chief Operating Officer...
- Earnings calls 2009-04-29
- Bill's Dollar Stores files chapter 11 petition. (Brief Article)
- JACKSON, Miss.FNS -- Less than a month after the collapse of a proposed sale, Bill's Dollar Stores, Inc., filed a Chapter 11 petition monday. The petition, filed in bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Del., lists total liabilities of $98 million, including about $26 million...
- Research articles 1993-07-13
- Leo Burnett Pays $15.5 Million to Settle Allegations It Defrauded the U.S. Army
- Leo Burnett has agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that it overbilled the U.S. Army by $20 million on its advertising account. The suit alleges that Burnett systematically overbilled the government by pretending that agencies it owned were independent subcontractors. It funnelled the excess billings into a secret account,...
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- If TARP Was So Smart, Why Are So Many Banks Failing?
- So we taxpayers actually made money on the Troubled Asset Relief Program-at least so far. Goldman Sachs GS, JP Morgan JPM and others have repaid the loans from the government, with interest, and the equity stakes that we hold in Citigroup C and Bank of America BAC have appreciated since...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
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