Word: brokering
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...Financial, bankers are elbowing for a place at the Safeway table. "There's a perception at many banks that if things don't pick up substantially there'll need to be more downsizing," says Geoffrey Nicholson, of Mercer Management Consulting. Merrill Lynch last week stepped down as Tesco's broker because it's advising Green. WestLB Panmure continues as Safeway's broker even though its lending division is working with Green, while Credit Suisse First Boston ditched a 10-year relationship with Safeway to advise KKR. That's risky, since only the winner's bankers, and Safeway's, are likely...
...world less hospitable to the next generation of Osama bin Ladens, such a climate will not come about by further occupation of Arab lands by U.S. and other foreign forces. Instead of taking military steps, the U.S. should be playing an active, leading role as an honest and unbiased broker in the stalled Middle East peace process. That's what would help. OMAR MAHAYNI Farmington, Mich...
...simply dismiss that defense. Grubman, 49, has spent much of his life puffing up his image. He has lied about his schooling and which Philadelphia neighborhood he grew up in. At the height of the telecom bubble, he saw himself less as a stock analyst than as a power broker, socializing with CEOs, including WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers, and offering them advice. But the newly obtained e-mails, brought to light in New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer's probe of conflicts of interest on Wall Street, are being taken seriously by those investigating Grubman. The e-mails...
...buyer of Bush’s 212,140 Harken shares in June 1990 remains unknown, although The Boston Globe has reported that Ralph D. Smith, the broker in the sale of Bush’s shares, says the buyer was an “institutional client.” A Globe story this month determined that the buyer was likely the New York investment firm Quest Advisory...
Switching planners or brokers is simple; generally a new firm gives you papers to direct an old firm to make the transfer. (Of course, you could use a new broker or adviser at your old firm.) It's a little more complex if you've granted your adviser discretionary power: the right to trade your assets without your case-by-case permission. In that situation, send a letter (certified, return receipt) stating your wishes to your existing adviser. On delivery, the discretionary power ends...