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
By all accounts, FINRA's new CEO Rick Ketchum is an honorable "public
servant" who has spent most of his life working hard to make our
financial markets a better place...
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Evan Simonoff
As stock prices collapsed this week to levels not seen for 12 years, a
small chorus of experts, including several prominent short sellers,
either called a bottom or said it was near...
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Evan Simonoff
It can't be confirmed, but word has it that the FBI is currently
investigating about 500 alleged Ponzi schemes...
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Evan Simonoff
A stress test for Citigroup? Surely, they jest. It would be like asking
Ralph Kramden, that is Jackie Gleason, to run a three-hour marathon.
Yesterday's news that the U.S...
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Evan Simonoff
I have a confession: Every few weeks, I watch Jim Cramer for 10-15 minutes...
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Evan Simonoff
First Pacific Advisors CEO Robert Rodriguez is the only money manager
ever to win Morningstar's manager of the year award in both the equity
and fixed-income categories...
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Evan Simonoff
Last Friday, February 6, an outstanding TD Ameritrade conference suddenly turned into a WWF-like smackdown event when an advisor, trembling with rage, lashed out at former White House advisor Karl...
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Evan Simonoff
For several decades, the profession's leading practitioners have
described their work as comprehensive financial planning...
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Evan Simonoff
Speaking at TD Ameritrade's annual conference in Las Vegas, Black Rock Vice Chairman Bob Doll told attendees that "if the Fed needs to buy stocks on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, they...
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Evan Simonoff
Last week I had the opportunity to speak with one of the smartest financial advisors I know, J. Michael Martin of Financial Advantage in Columbia, Md...
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Evan Simonoff
When it comes to commentary on the economy and the financial markets, there is no more entertaining grouch, grump and grinch than GMO's Jeremy Grantham...
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Evan Simonoff
Hardly a day goes by without another report of a hedge fund manager disappearing, a broker jumping out of a plane and faking his death or a hedge fund closing with virtually zero assets...
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Evan Simonoff
When rumors surfaced that President-elect Obama would nominate Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary in late November, the stock market rallied 5% in a few hours...
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Evan Simonoff
Speaking in Boca Raton, Fla., at the 2nd Annual Inside ETFs conference on Monday, economist Ed Yardeni told attendees that since there are SDS and SRS ETFs, maybe someone should create an SOS ETF.
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Evan Simonoff
Mary Schapiro's appointment as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission is already triggering lots of whispering, little of it positive, in the financial advisor community...
