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By Alexei Bayer |
February 1, 2012
We’re conditioned to regard taxation as bad for the economy.
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By Marlene Y. Satter |
September 12, 2011
Warren Buffett has chosen another fund manager to further his succession plan, and once again it’s a candidate who has stayed pretty much out of the spotlight. Ted Wechsler of Peninsula Capital Advisors in Charlottesville, Va., will become the latest addition to the Berkshire Hathaway team.
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By Alexei Bayer |
March 1, 2010
In their recent book, Start-Up Nation, Dan Senor and Saul Singer argue that one of the main reasons Israel has had such success in starting...
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By Nancy R. Mandell |
January 1, 2009
The vintage scales displayed in the conference room of Focus Financial Partners' midtown Manhattan offices are not the only collection CEO Rudy Adolf has his...
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By Kenneth Silber |
January 1, 2009
The 1990s began with the stock market edging to new highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, having made its first close above 2,800 on January...
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By James Picerno |
July 1, 2008
Philanthropy is conventionally defined as activity aimed at promoting human welfare of one kind or another, as any dictionary will tell you. Conspicuously absent from...
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By Alexei Bayer |
December 1, 2007
When I was an undergraduate at Columbia in the mid-1970s, students at the university's top-notch School of Engineering had a reputation of being socially awkward...
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By Michael Hayes |
October 1, 2007
Despite careful plans and the best intentions, accidents happen. At some point almost everyone will suffer a sudden, unexpected loss caused by a natural event...
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By Staff Writer |
March 1, 2007
Online account aggregation, the process of collecting positions, balances, and transactions from Web sites and online sources for multiple accounts, and presenting the combined statement...
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By Staff Writer |
October 1, 2005
In the past five years, financial services practice values have moved steadily upward in the open market to well over two times gross revenues. Is...
