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...they know it helps their clients, or because they see it as a marketing tool. By and large, though, the banks never went to great lengths to advertise the availability and value of the research to customers-like, say, Charles Schwab does. That's partly because most customers at firms such as Merrill Lynch deal with intermediaries like brokers. Still, "while the retail investor may not have been accessing that research directly, investment professionals were consuming it and then presenting it to their clients," says Michael Mayhew, chairman and director of research at Integrity Research Associates, a firm that tracks...
...upcoming paper in The Review of Financial Studies finds that since the global settlement, research from investment banks has, in certain ways, become less biased. An analyst is no longer more likely to issue a "buy" rating when his firm is doing investment banking business with the company he's covering-as used to be the case. "It's leveled the behavior on the optimistic side, and that seems like a good result," says Leonardo Madureira, a finance professor at Case Western Reserve University and one of the paper's authors. Analysts, though, are still much less likely to issue...
...estimates that language learning is an $83 billion industry). Also, a second language enhances your resume; job searchers need every advantage they can get these days. "In this era of unemployment, language skills are very much in vogue," says Scott Sweet, senior managing partner at IPO Boutique, a research firm. "It can open up so many more doors." Though Rosetta Stone software is expensive - the typical three-level program costs about $500 - it's still more cost-effective than the classroom, or extensive one-on-one tutoring...
...depth of national and global experience,” “sharp eye for anticipating market trends,” and “outstanding ability for developing innovative investment strategies.” Cummings, who is currently a managing director at real estate investment firm Matapeake Partners, once managed $22 billion worth of North American and European public and private real estate investments for LaSalle Investment Management, where he served as a Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer. Real assets as a whole—which include liquid commodities, real estate, and timber and agricultural...
...described as “wildly expensive beyond anyone’s reasonable dreams or expectations.” “If I didn’t have this,” Warren said, “I would have to go work at a private sector firm to pay off debt.” The first-year Law School student said he now plans to pursue a career in academia or public service instead. According to first-year HMS student Tomasz P. Stryjewski, a Polish immigrant interested in ophthalmology, another benefit of the fellowship is access...