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
It's not just that another 1.44 billion shares of Facebook will become
available for sale between now and November...
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Evan Simonoff
The United States is replicating the mistakes of the 1930s' New Deal and causing "the death spiral of the welfare state," where taxes must go up to pay ever-increasing entitlement costs, George Will...
I nearly spat up a few bits of Cheerios at the boob tube in
disbelief this morning when I heard former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill call for
breaking up the nation's biggest banks and essentially...
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Evan Simonoff
The stunning disappearance of client funds at three commodities
brokerages-Refco, MF Global and now Peregrine-over the last seven years
has to be prompting many advisors to ask why a client...
He may only have been making his point with hyperbole, but when Mark
Tibergien told attendees at Pershing's annual Insite conference that
older advisors were not only burning out younger...
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Evan Simonoff
Despite the FPA's best efforts to give the advisory profession one voice, the organization's RIA and brokerage contingents continue to drift further and further apart.
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Evan Simonoff
Several sources said that Summit Partners had
retained Goldman Sachs to explore the sale of Focus Financial Partners...
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Evan Simonoff
Whether President Obama wins or loses, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush
notes that there is "ample evidence" our current president is "no Bill
Clinton."
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Evan Simonoff
New legislation to anoint a self-regulatory organization for RIAs has sparked
the predictable firestorm...
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Evan Simonoff
Is there a new Nifty Fifty looming on the equity market's horizon?
Loomis Sayles vice chairman Dan Fuss hinted that there might be some
variant of that phenomenon from the late 1960s and early...
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Evan Simonoff
Occupy Wall Street came and went, but two recent books shed far more light than the protesters on the twin topics of increasing income inequality and middle-class downward mobility that have festered...
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Evan Simonoff
With a short-term mentality practically paralyzing individuals and
corporations, the U.S...
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Evan Simonoff
Almost all advanced economies are burdened with enough debt to remain
vulnerable to double-dip recessions, according to Carmen Reinhart...
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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...
