Word: mason
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Eight top analysts left Legg Mason last June to found Precursor Group, based in Washington. Led by former ING Barings ceo Michael Petrycki, another group of analysts broke away last May to form Fulcrum Global Partners, based in New York City. They join well-established Sanford C. Bernstein among the boutique firms selling stock research unfettered by investment-banking concerns. Individual investors generally can't get research from these firms, which are paid in commissions from hedge funds or mutual funds that act on the firms' recommendations. But select, full research reports are available at prices as high as several...
Currently, elections are supervised by the bipartisan Federal Elections Commission (FEC). It is comprised of three Republicans and three Democrats who are chosen by congressional leaders. Among these six, two (Commissioners Bradley Smith and David Mason) are outspoken opponents of campaign finance reform. This fact raises the question of whether the commission will even enforce the new laws. But the bigger problem is that the FEC keeps third party candidates out of elections. To provide unbiased oversight, the federal government must disband the commission and replace it with an independent commission. This change would take the politics out of supervising...
...state political parties, which are not subject to the federal ban. Because federal candidates are barred even from raising soft money, it will be illegal for a Representative or Senator to so much as sign a fund-raising letter for a local candidate, says Federal Election Commission chairman David Mason. Though the law doesn't go into effect until November, party officials are already reacting. Indiana's state Democratic Party notified Senator Evan Bayh and Representatives Julia Carson and Baron Hill that they will probably be evicted from the offices their campaigns rent in the state party HQ in Indianapolis...
According to Mason, the new genome center’s director has met with the University president and “is thrilled to death” when Summers talks about a revolution in the life sciences...
...They are definitely on the same page,” Mason said...