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  • 8 of History’s Best Investments

    By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  April 23, 2013

    When the right investor marries the right time with the right company, the return on investment and the size of the return goes through the roof.

  • Top 10 Consumer Complaints

    By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  August 1, 2012

    A survey revealed that new complaints ranged from bedbugs to Internet penny auctions, gold buying companies and the use of prepaid card products to bilk consumers out of their hard-earned funds.

  • Tax Hike Needed

    By Alexei Bayer  |  February 1, 2012

    We’re conditioned to regard taxation as bad for the economy.

  • Buffett Picks Another Dark Horse Successor

    By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  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.

  • Land of Milk and Money

    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...

  • BALANCING ACT

    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...

  • The Soaring Nineties

    By Kenneth Silber, Research  |  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...

  • Can philanthropy and capitalism work together?

    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...

  • Finding the Next Google

    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...

  • Calamity Claims

    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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