Evan
Simonoff is editor-in-chief and editorial director of Financial Advisor
magazine, as well as editorial director of Private Wealth magazine. He
has spent more than 15 years as an editor and reporter covering the
financial services industry. Evan is a widely recognized expert on
personal finance and investments.
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Evan Simonoff
In a compelling presentation at FSI's OneVoice conference, Dr. Stephen Mansfield listed 10 common reasons why leaders crash and burn.
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Evan Simonoff
Alan Greenspan thinks private equity is the investment vehicle of the
21st century. Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry think they are "looters"
practicing predatory capitalism...
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Evan Simonoff
We'll never know how many Ponzi schemes and other criminal activities revolving around investment fraud would have been uncovered in the past three years if the financial crisis had not sent...
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Evan Simonoff
In his latest quarterly letter, Jeremy Grantham postulates that if the
Standard & Poor's 500 overcorrects like the average of the past 10
great (pre-Greenspan) equity bubbles, the index could...
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At a time when many custodians are setting up lending programs to help
RIAs finance acquisitions and internal succession, a top lawyer sees the
programs as problematic.
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Evan Simonoff
Ask a former British Labour leader and an Orange County Republican about
the future of capitalism, and the answers shouldn't be surprising...
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Evan Simonoff
One of the more damning pieces of information the FBI has against former Napfa President Mark Spangler
is an affidavit that claims he had planned to travel to Ecuador on September 25.
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Evan Simonoff
After oversight of RIAs with less than $100 million in assets under
management is transferred to the states, the SEC will have 18 to 20
examiners for every RIA firm with over $100 million in...
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Evan Simonoff
David Kelly, chief market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management, is
raising his odds on a U.S. recession to 25%, thanks largely to what he
considers policy blunders by U.S...
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Evan Simonoff
During Ronald Reagan's presidency, the U.S. economy created 18 million
new jobs. During Bill Clinton's two terms, that figure was 22 million.
How are our 21st century presidents doing?
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An intriguing study from the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank has
postulated that the aging of the baby boom generation will act as a
depressant for equity prices for the next 15 years or so...
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Evan Simonoff
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner told his hostess that if her taxes didn't go up, there would be
looters climbing over the walls to her mansion to take all sorts of
trinkets and other goodies...
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Evan Simonoff
The United Kingdom and France could be the next nations to face
downgrades on their sovereign debt...
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Evan Simonoff
Some of the ideas to jump start the anemic U.S. economy-for that matter
the global economy-are getting ludicrous...
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