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The Motley Fool April 28, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Shakeup Looms at Bank of America Among other issues B of A investors must grapple with at their annual meeting is the fate of CEO Ken Lewis, who has been tarred and feathered after the multibillion-dollar Merrill Lynch acquisition blew up, nearly taking shareholders down with it. |
Registered Rep. September 15, 2008 Kristen French |
Merrill Lynch Sells Itself To Bank of America: Update 3 The biggest question, now that BofA has agreed to buy Merrill Lynch, is what Bank of America will do to hold onto Merrill Lynch's dearest asset -- its approximately 17,000 financial advisors. |
Registered Rep. December 28, 2009 David A. Geracioti |
FT Names Blankfein Person of the Year, Why Not You, the Retail Financial Advisor? Lloyd Blankfein may be a worthy winner, but here are some other worthy names that might have been tossed into the till. |
Registered Rep. February 12, 2009 |
Round Up: The Post-Congressional Roasting Scuttlebutt Deems House Committee A Rather Pointless Public Flogging In the 18th century there might have been a public flogging or a stint in the town square's pillory, but would the pre-credit-crunch world have condemned Wall Street leaders and members of Congress to the gallows? |
The Motley Fool September 15, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Justice for Bank of America Shareholders Bank of America shareholders are getting some justice, and those singlehandedly responsible for transforming the bank from a world-class enterprise into a taxpayer-sucking ward are being held accountable. |
The Motley Fool April 23, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Conspiracy at Bank of America? News breaks that Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis was supposedly strong-armed by the government to keep mum on the losses at Merrill Lynch. |
The Motley Fool February 4, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Ken Lewis: A Fraudster, or Just Stupid? Or maybe a stupid fraudster? |
Registered Rep. October 30, 2007 Christina Mucciolo |
O'Neal Gone: Reps Apathetic, Analysts Say Get Back To Basics If you work at Merrill, enjoy the cloak-and-dagger board room fight. In reality, things aren't so bad. The bottom line: Merrill ought to stick to what it is good at -- retail brokerage. |
Registered Rep. November 10, 2009 David A. Geracioti |
Merrill Integration Ahead of Schedule, Says Lewis An article in the New York Post claims Merrill Lynch advisors are annoyed with Bank of America's (BoA) efforts to get them to offer their clients BoA checking accounts, but Ken Lewis says that's not true. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2008 David A. Geracioti |
The Deposit Sugar Daddy The surprising take over of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America. |
Registered Rep. December 2, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
Breakup Talks Dog BofA Two Bank of America CEO candidates recently told the board of directors that the bank should consider breaking itself up. |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2009 Morgan Housel |
B of A's Ken Lewis: Still Mostly Clueless Maria Bartiromo asks Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis how he would prove to an upcoming shareholder meeting that Merrill Lynch won't become something that will require a 12-figure bailout by the federal government. |
Registered Rep. February 4, 2010 Halah Touryalai |
NY AG Names Names -- Charges Ken Lewis With Fraud The New York Attorney General's office today charged Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis with fraud for failing to disclose material details about Merrill Lynch in its merger with the brokerage. |
Registered Rep. August 3, 2009 John Churchill |
When Kenny Met Sallie - Bank of America hires Krawcheck Sallie Krawcheck, one of the most powerful women on Wall Street, has ended her year-long absence from the wealth management industry with an auspicious return. |
Registered Rep. January 22, 2009 |
Thain Departs BofA--An $87,000 Rug? Say It Ain't So, John! Client AUMs Fall By 30 Percent In 2008 John Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch and the man who engineered the sales of the storied Wall Street firm to Bank of America in September, is leaving the combined firm immediately. |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Was Bank of America Forced to Buy Merrill? Two key questions that investors want to know the answers to are when those seemingly "unexpected" Merrill losses came to light, and why the deal was still consummated after they were discovered. |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2009 Liz Peek |
A Bold New Plan: Dump FAS 157 What can President Obama's financial team do to right the banking ship? One idea that should be reviewed is the elimination of mark-to-market accounting, required by FAS 157, which would go a long way toward stabilizing the banks. |
The Motley Fool March 4, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
B of A CEO Quibbles Over $10 Billion Ken Lewis calls his request for $20 billion in aid from the government to complete the acquisition of Merrill Lynch "a tactical mistake," saying he should have requested ... just $10 billion. |
The Motley Fool April 29, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
B of A Needs a New CEO Ken Lewis had his crack at running Bank of America and it hasn't turned out well. Should he be shown the door? |
BusinessWeek May 20, 2009 Dean Foust |
Can BofA CEO Ken Lewis Keep His Job? The pressure on Bank of America Chief Executive Officer Kenneth D. Lewis is growing by the day. Officials fear Washington wants to push the CEO out. |
Registered Rep. July 8, 2008 Kristen French |
Post Bear, Regulatory Reform May Squeeze Brokerage Margins Could increased regulation of the brokerage industry in the wake of the subprime crisis and Bear Stearns debacle tighten the screws on brokerage business revenues and margins? |
The Motley Fool January 16, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Bank of America Needs a Regime Change After news of a $2.39 billion quarterly loss and the announcement that dividends are all but history Bank of America investors now have sincere reasons to question the capability of CEO Ken Lewis. |
The Motley Fool October 1, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Don't Let the Door Hit You, Ken Lewis! The CEO says the end of the year will be the end of his career with Bank of America. |
Bank Systems & Technology April 30, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Ken Lewis Remains BofA CEO for Now The Bank of America chairman was removed from his position and, although he retains the CEO title, his days may still be numbered. |
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2009 Jack Milligan |
For BofA, a Year of Living Dangerously While some might resent it, strong CEOs sometimes need strong boards to protect them from themselves. |
On Wall Street June 1, 2009 Elizabeth Wine |
BofA Gets New Chairman, New Capital As financial advisors continue to bear up under a perfect storm of market turmoil, and watch their companies raked over the coals for their roles in the economic collapse, the bad news keeps on coming. |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Gone So Soon, John Thain? Merrill Lynch's John Thain has bowed out just weeks after selling his firm to Bank of America. |
Registered Rep. August 26, 2009 Christina Mucciolo |
Bove Smites Morgan Stanley's Strategy, But Bullish On Brokerage Unit Morgan Stanley's recent move to increase trading risk and add traders a la Goldman Sachs is a just another bad strategy in a long line of lousy executions by management. |
Registered Rep. October 2, 2008 |
Thain Gets a Job at Bank of America Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain has accepted an offer to be president of Global Banking, Securities and Wealth Management at Bank of America. |
Registered Rep. February 2, 2009 |
BofA's Lewis In Dissidents' Sights Just months ago, he was heralded as banker of the year. Now he's the target of a group of angry shareholders. |
Registered Rep. February 11, 2009 |
At the Break: Congressional CEO Smackdown Provides Some Entertaining Tantrums, Some Embarrassment, Mostly Bloviating Representatives The House Financial Services Committee staged a bit of theater today for the benefit of U.S. taxpayers. |
The Motley Fool February 4, 2009 Morgan Housel |
First, Fire All the Bad Bankers One thing that most see eye to eye on is that management of bailed banks should be thrown out. And why not? Most employees can be fired for showing up late, while bank CEOs are still employed after obliterating hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth. It's appalling. |
Registered Rep. January 22, 2007 John Churchill |
Krawcheck Back, Thompson Bows Out at Citigroup Citigroup announced two key management changes today: Sallie Krawcheck, Citigroup's CFO, returns to her role as CEO of global wealth management, and Todd Thomson, who currently holds the position, is leaving the company. |
Registered Rep. July 23, 2008 John Churchill |
Wachovia Earnings Down; Stock Up 27 Percent In Two Days While Wachovia Corp. was busy posting bad numbers, its two retail financial advisory units -- one for high-net-worth financial planning and the other for retail brokerage, including A.G. Edwards -- did relatively well. |
The Motley Fool October 5, 2009 Morgan Housel |
With Lewis Gone, Is Pandit Next? Citigroup's current CEO, Vikram Pandit, replaced Chuck Prince in 2007, so he can't be blamed for many of Citi's problems. But you can still argue that he should be replaced. |
Registered Rep. February 24, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
News Roundup: Obama Spends to Save, Bernanke States the Obvious and AIG says, "Help," Again. Someone should let the stock market in on the secret to economic recovery; investors clearly haven't been too psyched about Treasury's plan. |
Registered Rep. September 6, 2011 Kristen French |
Updated: Bank of America Spins Off Krawcheck, Not Merrill, FAs Unhappy Two years after hiring her, Bank of America is giving the heave-ho to Sallie Krawcheck, head of global wealth and investment management. |
The Motley Fool February 20, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Bank Stocks Obliterated Some of our largest banks now trade at their lowest levels since the early 1980s. |
Registered Rep. May 4, 2010 John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Client Asset Outflows Slow in Q1 Improving market conditions softened the blow as total client assets hit $721.6 billion in the brokerage unit of the Swiss banking giant. |
The Motley Fool May 6, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Bank of America's Big, Fat, Gaping Hole Already widely expected to be short on capital, the hole blown in the side of B of A's balance sheet now appears bigger than many expected. |
Registered Rep. April 20, 2009 John churchill |
Bank of America Q1 Earnings Beat Estimates; Top Financial Advisors Staying Put Bank of America joins Wells Fargo, Citi and Goldman Sachs on the list of banks reporting better than expected earnings in the first quarter. |
Registered Rep. September 10, 2009 Kristen French |
Gorman Grabs Morgan Stanley CEO Slot James Gorman, the former head of Morgan Stanley's retail brokerage division and now co-president of the firm, is slated to take over the CEO job in January, 2010. |
Registered Rep. July 10, 2008 |
Wachovia: Oops, We Did It Again Yesterday Wachovia announced a new CEO to replace Ken Thompson: Robert Steele, previously a vice chairman at Goldman Sachs, and currently undersecretary of the Treasury until Wednesday. |
Registered Rep. November 15, 2007 Christina Mucciolo |
Merrill Stops Squirming, Reps Have Mixed Reviews Previously, Merrill Lynch chiefs have usually been plucked from in house, and were former brokers, convivial and backslapping. By contrast, recently hired CEO John Thain is considered cerebral and not charismatic. |
The Motley Fool June 25, 2010 Andrew Bond |
Opinions Differ on the Financial Overhaul Was the financial regulation bill harsh enough? |
The Motley Fool February 12, 2010 Alyce Lomax |
Wall Street's Insane Poker Game Continues Its perpetual loop of asinine behavior needs to stop. |
The Motley Fool March 27, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Does Anybody Have Any Idea What's Going On? The government is taking bold action, but do we really know what needs to be fixed? |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Will Leitch |
A Sporting Chance Morgan's shareholders are testy now, and they are looking for someone to blame for the company's ills. Having taken a 46% raise in a year in which his company's stock dropped 8.2 percent, chairman and CEO Philip Purcell makes an easy target. |
Registered Rep. August 1, 2004 |
15 Years Ago in Registered Rep From June 1989: New York-based Shearson broker Charles Lewis won an aggravated harassment case against 67-year-old Ethel Scull, for phoning Lewis 1,208 times over eight days following the October 1987 crash. |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Something Could Go Right in Banking Is the banking industry a minefield or a land of opportunity? |