Rich stuff, this Merrill research on the affluent
Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch Wealth Management group was relaunched last fall as a more touchy-feely brokerage. Think…
NY investment firm gaga for green acres
New York-based Optima Fund Management, a $6 billion fund of hedge funds, thinks farming is a growing business.
Goldman Sachs takes PE crown
While executives of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. were getting grilled on Capitol Hill about deals involving mortgage-related securities, another division of the company quietly made headlines of a different sort.
Wanted: Hedge fund pros to police hedge fund pros
The SEC aims to add more enforcement agents and examiners to its hedge fund speciality unit. With 700 hedge shops closing in 2009, there should be shortage of applicants.
Is this a sign? Hedgies closing distressed debt funds
Did you hear? The credit crisis is officially over — at least according to the handful of hedge fund managers who have shut down their “credit crisis funds” over the past few weeks.
Big drop in money flowing into new hedge funds
The hedge fund industry may be roundly celebrating 2009 as a comeback—19% returns are always exciting—but it was still a tough year to get into the business, according to a survey just released by Absolute Return + Alpha magazine.
Former tech guru at Goldman signs on with Bank of America
Former Goldman Sachs technology-chief-turned-hedge-fund-manager Michael Dubno will join Bank of America Corp. Tuesday, according to the Charlotte-based bank.
Guess who’s hiring hedgies these days
Hedge funds are losing talent to university endowments, sovereign wealth funds and even to the Securities and Exchange Commission, of all places, according to a survey released this week by executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles.
After lull, financial-crime prosecutions seen set to rise
A December study of Justice Department records showed that federal prosecutions of financial crimes have dropped dramatically nationwide over the past six years, despite the recent media frenzy over big-time Ponzi schemes and insider trading scandals.
Jobless Wall Streeters sour on finance careers
The scent of money that drew many professionals to jobs on Wall Street has been dissipating, according to a survey of out-of-work finance folk.
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