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Ted Knutson
Retail investors are cheering activists, according to a little-known June poll brought to light Tuesday by Broc Romanek, author of the top followed SEC blogs in Washington.
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Reuters
Activist hedge fund Marcato Capital Management says it now owns roughly 6 million shares in brokerage firm LPL Financial Holdings Inc.
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Ted Knutson
The man named the most influential financial advisor on social media for the second year in a row says he is tweeting less and enjoying the fruits of his labor more.
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Ted Knutson
The SEC voted unanimously to propose measures to try to insure open-end mutual funds and ETFs are able to continuously meet redemptions without significantly lowering their NAV.
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Reuters
Cyber security companies are raising large rounds of financing from investors, whose tremendous appetite for high-tech defenses is not expected to subside even in a market correction.
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Bloomberg News
After UBS helped the government dig itself into a deeper hole and put island customers on the hook for the losses that followed, its Puerto Rico saga has become a cautionary tale of how risks can...
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Reuters
The founder of broker gossip website AdvisorHUB has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for not paying federal employment taxes for his workers at a separate business in 2009.
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Bloomberg News
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein says he has a “highly curable” form of lymphoma and will undergo chemotherapy over the next several months.
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Christopher Robbins
Though investors prize advisors for investment management skills, they are most likely to turn to them as a calming influence, says IMCA.
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Bloomberg News
A Texas man accused of operating a Ponzi scheme involving bitcoins pleaded guilty on Monday in what prosecutors say was the first U.S. criminal securities fraud case related to the digital currency.
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Bloomberg News
A former Morgan Stanley financial advisor who was fired in connection with a major breach of client information pleaded guilty on Monday to taking confidential client data.
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Reuters
Targeting millennials, Goldman Sachs Group Inc rolled out a series of quick-hit recruiting ads on Snapchat on Friday, becoming the first big bank to turn to the instant-but-fleeting messaging app for...
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Bloomberg News
Amid a six-year bull market that’s notable mainly for how little conviction there is in it, equity sentiment is plunging at a historic rate
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Bloomberg News
The number of U.S. households that spend at least half their income on rent—the "severely cost-burdened," in the lingo of housing experts—could increase 25 percent to 14...
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Karen DeMasters
Some areas of the United States are surprisingly expensive just to buy the basics for a family of four, according to EPI.
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Dan Jamieson
The Federal Reserve’s new focus on global stability could moderate future rate hikes, according to analysts at Pimco.
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Reuters
The global market volatility that upended investors over the last six weeks may last deep into autumn now that the Federal Reserve has decided to keep interest rates unchanged, several portfolio...
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Bloomberg News
The SEC lost twice Thursday in bids to preserve its internal court system for meting out justice in the securities markets, but there may be light at the end of the tunnel at least in one case.
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Reuters
Jeffrey Gundlach said the biggest surprise from the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to keep rates unchanged was policymakers' focus on recent global economic and financial developments.
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Dan Jamieson
Persistently good markets have made potential sellers hesitant to get out while they enjoy strong cash flow.
