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Steve Daniels

A native of Wilmette, Steve is a graduate of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

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State halts sales of underwater college savings plan

Illinois stops accepting new participants due to gap in funding

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Farmers make a killing buying back land from struggling banks

Banks come a cropper, as farmers buy back acreage at a fraction of the price they sold it for.

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Northern Trust launches gay, lesbian wealth management biz

Northern Trust Corp. long has championed its conservative heritage as a 121-year-old financial institution that eased through the Great Depression and most recently the Great Recession.

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Failed Olympics bid behind him, Aon founder Pat Ryan launches new insurer

After leading Chicago's unsuccessful effort to land the Olympics, Patrick Ryan is jumping into something he knows a lot better than the Byzantine politics of the International Olympics Committee — the insurance business.

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  • March 15, 1999

World Revolves Around Retail, So TCW Puts Galileo On Shelves: Pension specialist figures advisers are ‘mini-institutions’

TCW Group Inc., a heavyweight asset manager for pension funds, is the latest to expand its business to retail investors through the increasingly crowded financial adviser market.

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EVEN BETTER: ALL OF BIG GREEN’S STOCK OFFERINGS TO CARRY PERFORMANCE FEES – AMEX TO SCRAP IDS FUND NAME

American Express Financial Advisors is dumping its IDS moniker for the better known AmEx name, laying the groundwork…

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ADVISERS TAKE RETURNS, LET RISK RUN, BEHAVIORAL FINANCE STUDY SHOWS: MICROSCOPE TURNED AROUND TO VIEW PROS RATHER THAN CUSTOMERS

Forget about clients: Advisers may want to spend more time assessing their own risk biases. According to an…

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ONE WAY TO BLOCK POACHERS — AMEX CATCHES ON: IT’S RAISING ADVISERS’ PAY

American Express Financial Advisors is remaking itself to look more like the independent brokerages that have been poaching…

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STAKES RAISED AS INSURERS VIE FOR BANK SALES: ANNUITY COMMISSIONS TOP 7%

As competition gets hotter, leaders in the variable annuity industry are watching warily as more of their competitors…

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EATING OWN COOKING IS COSTLY, MANY FIND

The money’s certainly good and the hours are even better, but increasingly independent directors of mutual funds are…