Vanessa Drucker

• Out of the Blue

  By Vanessa Drucker  |  January 1, 2008

  Turbulence on the ground doesn't have to be an earthquake or a tsunami. Consider the tumultuous stretch from August 8 through August 16, 2007, when...

• Exit planning strategies

  By Vanessa Drucker  |  January 1, 2008

  When David Bugen and his partners decided to establish a plan for an eventual ownership transfer of Regent Atlantic, their priority was to ensure their...

• The Expat Client

  By Vanessa Drucker  |  December 1, 2007

  Senior U.S. executives and professionals are emigrating in waves. Foreign assignments are now regarded as plum positions, often critical to career advancement, and London has...

• Revenge of the Dividend

  By Vanessa Drucker  |  November 1, 2007

  If you can remember back to the 1950s, not only was Elvis cool, but so were dividend-paying stocks. Investors bought them primarily for their yield....

• Contrarian Course

  By Vanessa Drucker  |  September 1, 2007

  "Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?" Who doesn't know that the nursery rhyme contrarian had her silver bells and cockleshells and pretty...

• Next Stop

  By Vanessa Drucker  |  February 1, 2007

  As his first career, the post Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin worked as a successful stockbroker in Paris, while he enjoyed painting on weekends and collecting...

• Rule Britannia

  By Vanessa Drucker  |  October 1, 2006

  Fee-only financial planning and wealth management emerged in the U.S. in their modern forms. But while U.S. pioneers remain at the profession's cutting edge, they...

• Gold Rush

  By Vanessa Drucker  |  June 1, 2006

  John Maynard Keynes famously labeled gold a "barbaric relic." After bottoming in the summer of 1999, the relic has rebounded, more than doubling in value...

• DEMYSTIFYING THE FED

  By Vanessa Drucker  |  March 1, 2006

  Ancient Romans examined entrails for omens; the Chinese threw the I Ching. Throughout history, tea leaves, smoke, birds, clouds, cakes and candles have served as...