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I Love to Sell - Part II
By Bill GoodVery early in the selling side of my career, I started using a written questionnaire. My first one was a monster. It was 45-questions long....
April 01, 2007
A Friend in PennsylvaniaLast year, Gerald "Zeke" Strid attended the funeral of his sixth John Doe, a homeless man who froze to death under an Interstate-95 overpass. Strid...
April 01, 2007
What's the Real Threat to Wall Street?Worries about erosion in Wall Street dominance of global financial markets have been getting a lot of play lately. The Treasury department has been reviewing...
April 01, 2007
Take OffGovernment appropriations are poised for growth, some analysts say, and domestic orders look promising. --- Patrick J. McCarthy Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. 703-469-1236 [email protected] Areas of Coverage: Commercial Aerospace &...
April 01, 2007
14 Charged with Insider TradingThe titans of Wall Street aren't involved. But a former UBS executive director, ex-Morgan Stanley compliance attorney, and several former Bear Stearns brokers are. "UBS is...
March 20, 2007
Schwab Taps Dunham FundsDunham & Associates Investment Counsel, Inc. has announced that its family of asset class mutual funds with performance-based sub-adviser compensation has been added to the Schwab Mutual Fund OneSourc
March 06, 2007
The Best & Worst of College Savings Planshere have been some significant recent developments affecting 529 college savings plans, with substantial changes in state and federal tax benefits that should serve to increase the appeal of the plans. The most notable change was the Pension Protection Act of 2006, which made permanent an investor's ability to withdraw...
March 01, 2007
Krawcheck to Lead Smith Barney as FA Production Tops $665,000With headlines about his relationship with CNBC news anchor Maria Bartiromo and warnings from Citigroup Chairman and CEO Charles Prince about spending, Todd Thomson decided...