Broker&#39;s Directors Used Partnerships for Private Profits
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Board members and senior executives of Marsh &amp; McLennan, the giant insurance broker that has been accused of cheating customers, put millions of dollars into a partnership that profited by
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NEW YORK -- Just a year ago this week, New York Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer shook the financial services industry -- and investor confidence -- by revealing that four big-name mutual fund companies had cut secret deals allowing a New Jersey hedge fund to profit from short-term trading at the expense of ordinary investors.
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Profit from companies that are breaking in two.
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The Texas Pacific Group is demonstrating how private equity financiers have become catalysts in reshaping business in Europe.
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It doesn't always mean taking money from outside shareholders to pay insiders.
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After years of supersize private equity deals, investors have begun to push back at several prominent transactions.
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Private equity firms have  demonstrated strength in numbers by teaming up to make  significant acquisitions, and as some firms keep expanding,  investors say the trend toward "club" deals will help them snag  assets that once were out of their grasp.
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Here's how hedge fund manager Jon Fosheim makes money by both owning and shorting REITs.
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To woo business from Fidelity Investments traders, a New York brokerage firm showered them with pricey gifts such as private vacations and golf outings, tickets to a Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera concert, parties at the 2004 Super Bowl in Houston sponsored by Playboy and Maxim magazines, and a dozen bottles of Chateau Petrus wine worth $625 apiece.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission may require brokers to obtain the best prices for their clients' stock trades, a practice now followed only by the New York Stock Exchange, people familiar with the matter said yesterday.
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With taxes on private equity and hedge funds front and center, many in the industry are looking to Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, for help.
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Board members and senior executives of Marsh & McLennan put millions of dollars into a partnership that profited by buying companies from Marsh and investing in companies that work with Marsh.
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Securities regulators are opening up yet another front in their long-running investigation of the mutual fund industry, examining brokerage firms that allegedly gave mutual fund employees lavish gifts in exchange for business, officials said yesterday.
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Marsh &amp; McLennan, the world&#39;s biggest insurance broker, last night disclosed that regulators had launched an investigation into transactions involving its directors.
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For Edward S. Lampert, it appears the bloom is off the rose at Citigroup. The billionaire investor disclosed on Thursday that he has sold off more than 30 percent of his holdings in the struggling financial giant. RBS Partners, a hedge fund he controls, now holds about 19.1 million shares in Citi as of Dec. 31, [...].
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The brokersâ customers did reasonably well. The brokers did not. How could that happen?
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Brokerage firm's stock rallies as speculation is rife that CEO won't last long.