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Big Board chief urges best price across all markets.

Richard Grasso, the New York Stock Exchange's chairman, is all for progress. Testifying last week, he fended off skepticism over the exchange's proposal to abolish the 25-year-old system that now links stock markets. He wants all markets to ...

Tags: investor, New York Stock Exchange, Richard Grasso, stock

Research articles 2000-05-01

SIA: confidence a must for investors and street; tough talk from some top industry execs.

The securities business has an almost Herculean task in front of it: winning back investors' trust. That was the message top Wall Street executives sent to the 450 participants at this year's annual Securities Industry Association meeting in ...

Tags: industry, investor, Richard Grasso, Semiconductor Industry Association, settlement

Research articles 2002-11-18

Building momentum: Public funds star in NYSE reform movement's show.(News)

Byline: Gregory Crawford Public pension funds are feeling their oats. Sensing a once-in-a-lifetime chance to influence - if not engineer - change at the New York Stock Exchange, executives at some of the nation's largest public pension funds qui Byline: Gregory...

Tags: board, Dick, investor, New York Stock Exchange, pension fund, Richard Grasso

Research articles 2003-09-29

Naughty or nice? A look back: We're making a list, and checking it twice, going to find out who's ...(News)

Byline: Joel Chernoff When Santa reviews his lists of who's been naughty and who's been nice in money management this year, it's going to be really embarrassing. Managers who engaged in or permitted market timing in their mutual funds alone cou...

Tags: investor, mutual fund, New York Stock Exchange, Richard Grasso, Santa, SEC, Spitzer

Research articles 2003-12-08

Additional Resources

Is Countrywide a Governance Train Wreck?

Governance gurus weigh in on boardroom brouhaha at the troubled mortgage lender. Just four years ago, Countrywide, and its cofounding CEO, Angelo Mozilo, seemed positively prescient. Quickly seizing on the popularity of adjustable rate mortgages in 2004, the firm came up with a smorgasbord of new...

Articles 2008-06-01

No More Rough Justice

EDITORIAL ON A SUNDAY MORNING TELEVISION SHOW in 2005 Eliot Spitzer personally attacked Chief Executive magazine calling it "the voice for the corrupt CEOs, rather than for the vast majority who are honest." The then-New York State Attorney General was asked to respond to a comment...

Articles 2008-04-01

Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer.(Book review)

Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer Brooke A. Masters Times Books www.henryholt.com 353 pp., $26 Savvy media manipulator Eliot Spitzer has appeared so regularly in the news in recent years that Brooke Masters, a New York-based staff ...

Articles 2007-01-01

Hero or hack? Eliot Spitzer pushes the limits of prosecutorial progressivism

Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer By Brooke A. Masters Times Books, $26.00 George Orwell began his famous essay, Reflections on Gandhi," by observing that "saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent," and he went on to ask,...

Articles 2006-09-01

Grasso's tenure under scrutiny as pay trial looms; Prosecutions of ex-NYSE traders illustrate self-dealing.(News)

Byline: Aaron Elstein In October, Richard A. Grasso is scheduled to go to court here to defend his controversial $190 million pay package. But his tenure as chairman of the New York Stock Exchange already is under scrutiny...

Articles 2006-08-28

Trials open window on Grasso's failures; Trader prosecutions reveal self-dealing at stock exchange.(Richard Grasso )

Byline: Aaron Elstein In october, Richard Grasso is scheduled to finally go on trial in lower Manhattan to defend his infamous $190 million pay package. But his tenure as chairman of the New York Stock Exchange is already under scrutiny in a nearby federal...

Articles 2006-08-21

ACCOUNTING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY.(cases against Kmart Holding Corp.'s Chuck Conaway, New York Stock Exchange's Richard Grasso and Martha Stewart)

Byline: Arnold J. Karr Dos Filename %%h34a044a.arc%% Baseball stars on steroids. Actors with anger-management problems. Martha with a slap on the wrist that reached down to her ankle bracelet. Company executives actually being sentenced to jail time for defrauding ...

Articles 2005-08-22

Grasso Compensation Report Ignores Real Problem: Market Data Cartel;Webb Report Failed to Examine Why NYSE Had the Cash in First Place

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, the New York StockExchange NYSE released the Webb Report which details theinvestigation into former NYSE Chairman Richard Grasso's allegedinappropriate role in setting his own compensation package. While thereport attempts to detail the flaws in the compensation and benefitspackage that led to Grasso's enormous...

Articles 2005-02-02

SEC's SRO reform proposals figure to give NASD a new look; Board insiders would drop to 20%, from 52% now.(News)

Byline: Bruce Kelly NEW YORK - The structure of NASD's board of governors could face an overhaul if the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposals for changing corporate governance of self-regulatory organizations are passed. ...

Articles 2004-12-13

Books.

Exec compensation If you don't want to be responsible for the next Richard Grasso, Dennis Kozlowski or Mike Ovitz, the Compensation Committee Handbook is for you. This second edition by compensation experts James F. Reda, Stewart Reifler and Laura G. Thatcher is a comprehensive guide to the...

Articles 2004-11-29

Security industry leaders hear about reform efforts at Florida conference.

By David Sedore, The Palm Beach Post, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--It's been more than a year since Richard Grasso resigned as head of the New York Stock Exchange over a pay package that topped $187 million, but the...

Articles 2004-11-05

Formidable foe; CalPERS fights to block WellPoint-Anthem merger.(The Week In Healthcare)(California Public Employees' Retirement System, WellPoint Health Networks, Anthem Alliance Health Insurance Co.)

Byline: Laura B. Benko In perhaps the biggest threat yet to Anthem's planned takeover of WellPoint Health Networks, the nation's largest public pension fund vowed last week to fight the $16 billion deal, citing excessive executive pay packages that could...

Articles 2004-06-21

Meet Eliot Spitzer: the most destructive politician in America

THERE'S a story Eliot Spitzer likes to tell about the Federalist Society. Spitzer had started to make a name for himself as an aggressive and activist attorney general for New York, and the conservative legal group invited him to speak. Spitzer told the group that he too...

Articles 2004-06-14

A Fight on His Hands

Eliot Spitzer's political future seems to grow brighter every day. The New York attorney general has earned a rep as a tough regulator of white-collar fraud with his crackdown on Wall Street stock research and mutual funds. Many political pros say he's a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination...

Articles 2004-06-07

Executive pay hide-and-seek; With the IRS poised to inspect compensation at tax-exempt not-for-profits, perks and benefits for hospital executives likely to get much closer attention.(Internal Revenue Service )

Byline: Mark Taylor Facing congressional inquiries into their charitable care and spending practices, as well as lawsuits challenging their billing and collection policies for the uninsured, not-for-profit hospitals now face another potential foe: the tax man. ...

Articles 2004-05-31

Houston Chronicle Loren Steffy Column.

By Loren Steffy, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 26--SPITZER CRACKS DOWN AS GRASSO SHOULD HAVE YEARS AGO: Investors across America have Eliot Spitzer to thank -- again. The New York attorney general on Monday sent a 54-page...

Articles 2004-05-26