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Steven R. Strahler

Steve Strahler is an Associate Editor for the Crain's Chicago Business.

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Want to boost diversity of advisers and clients? Begin with the business case

Women and men have roles to play in helping to increase diversity of the industry's advisers and clients.

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  • News
  • June 11, 2001

Weak IPO market spurs investment bank layoffs

When a bloated William Blair & Co. recalled former managing partner Edgar D. Jannotta to active management in March, it said so in a three-sentence blurb issued to the press at the unfashionable hour of 6:29 p.m.

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Financial golden boy loses some gloss

Once viewed as a facile innovator among the Windy City's financial exchanges, the Chicago Board Options Exchange is suddenly bogged down on several fronts.

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  • November 1, 1999

ALLSTATE HEADED TO NEW HANDS?

A combination of market and legislative conditions is squeezing Allstate Corp.'s life as an independent company.

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IT’S THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADING BARBS: SUPPOSEDLY SMOOTHED, POWER STRUGGLE SEEN BREAKING OUT ANEW

This was supposed to be a relatively upbeat season for the Chicago Board of Trade. A power struggle…

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FAILURE ISN’T AN OPTION FOR NEW EXCHANGE: ISE CAPADES CHANGE TRADING PATTERNS WELL BEFORE MART OPENS

When David Krell was writing a market newsletter for a now-defunct brokerage in New York and the Chicago…

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AS FEE-SLASHING RIVAL GEARS UP, OPTIONS BOARD CHIEF SEEKS HEDGE

William J. Brodsky, chairman of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, likes to say he’s in the insurance business…

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REEVE BYRON WAUD: HIS NICHE IS SMALL-TIME CAPITAL

He’s a great-great-grandson of the meatpacker Gustavus Swift. That’s on his mother’s side. On his father’s side, he…

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BIG PAYDAY FOR EVEREN

The proposed sale of Everen Capital Corp. is worth about $45 million to chairman James R. Boris, who…

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DAVID P. BRENNAN – TO CBOT, COOPERATION IS ONLY OPTION IN FUTURES

New Chicago Board of Trade chairman David P. Brennan acknowledges that his wish for closer cooperation among the…