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Jon Birger

Jon Birger is an award-winning business journalist, author, and speaker. He was a senior reporter for Crain's New York Business when it owned InvestmentNews and went on to become a senior writer at Fortune. You can connect with him at LinkedIn.

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For Lehman, Fidelity proves a match

When Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. announced last June that it was entering a joint venture with Fidelity Investments,…

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  • February 7, 2000

Most ECNs seem to be hedges waiting to be clipped

In the past two years, Wall Street's leading firms have invested tens of millions of dollars in electronic communications networks - those new electronic stock markets that some believe pose a real threat to the Nasdaq Stock Market and the New York Stock Exchange.

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  • February 7, 2000

Pru rocked as high-tech acquisition’s pros take a hike

Prudential Securities Inc.'s acquisition of a West Coast investment banking boutique had all the makings of a perfect marriage.

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  • January 24, 2000

Irate Amex members pose threat to Nasdaq’s spinoff

Members of the American Stock Exchange are considering a lawsuit that could derail the National Association of Securities Dealers' plan to spin off the Nasdaq Stock Market.

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Couch Potato Fund more than chip off Gabelli block

As a youngster, Marc Gabelli never spent a lot of time talking stocks with his famous father, mutual fund manager Mario Gabelli. But that's not to say he didn't learn a thing or two from Dad about managing money.

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  • November 15, 1999

Boom-boom lawyers too cozy?

The sexual harassment lawsuit saga at Salomon Smith Barney Inc. is about to take a bizarre twist.

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  • November 1, 1999

What happens when venture capitalists decide your business is better than theirs

Last March, Joseph Park got the kind of phone call most entrepreneurs only dream about.

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Stockbroker gives advice the old-fashioned way: Jordan Berlin singing a new old tune

The E*Trades of the world may insist that someday we'll all invest on-line, but Jordan S. Berlin doesn't buy it.

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SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO? WALL STREET UPS RETENTION ANTE: HUGE COUNTEROFFERS HELP TO KEEP TALENT FROM JOINING RIVALS

Eighteen holes were the furthest thing from Christine Padian’s mind. A junior executive in J.P. Morgan & Co.’s…

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  • October 18, 1999

E*TRADE finally lands an IPO, but so what?: Its fees are similar and its reputation is yet to be established

When E*Offering - the investment banking affiliate of on-line broker E*Trade Group Inc. - set up shop last January, many observers thought the firm posed a serious threat to Wall Street's lucrative initial public offering business.