Innocents Abroad
By Staff WriterIn a previous column (March 2002, "The Globalization of U.S. Taxation") we discussed the tax issues confronting the international investor who is a non-U.S. citizen...
July 01, 2002
When Good Employees Go BadI'm sure you've heard employee horror stories. Maybe you even have some of your own. Consider this one: A few years ago, one of my coaching...
July 01, 2002
Abar's Big AventureWho could blame Matt Abar for selling out to Advent? When you're 31 and are offered more than $11.5 million for your share in your...
July 01, 2002
In Independents We TrustIf we had conducted our survey of independent trust companies a decade ago, to receive a dozen respondents from a universe not much larger than...
July 01, 2002
Part I: Golden Opportunities?By crackey, I remember the days when you didn't even need to own a shovel or swish a tin pan to make money out of...
July 01, 2002
The New Real DealWith their high yields and low correlation to equity indexes, real estate investment trusts have maintained a certain conservative attractiveness in today's depressed stock market....
June 30, 2002
1Q Bank Annuity Sales Reach New HighBySales of variable annuities in banks and thrifts seem to have halted their long decline, while bank sales of annuities in general reached new highs, ...
June 30, 2002
Annuity Platforms Vie For BusinessOn the heels of Leesburg, Va.-based AnnuityNet, Inc.s donation to the industry of its XML platform standard for online annuity transactions, Pivot/Info-One has announced availability ...