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The Motley Fool
January 14, 2009
Morgan Housel |
R.I.P., Citigroup Citi is preparing to unveil a complete overhaul of the supermarket bank structure it pushed over the past decade, shifting its focus to "wholesale banking for large corporate clients and retail banking for customers in selected markets around the world."   |
Registered Rep.
December 4, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Weill Postpones Elimination of Salomon Name Sandy Weill, the chairman of Salomon Smith Barney's parent Citigroup, has informed brokers and other employees that plans to eliminate the Salomon name, a Wall Street hallmark for nearly a century, have been postponed, according to sources. |
The Motley Fool
October 21, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Morgan Stanley's Back in the Game It's good news that Morgan Stanley's trading unit is firing on all cylinders. But the idea of a Wall Street arms race to profitability should please no one. |
The Motley Fool
April 9, 2010
Morgan Housel |
The Delicate Art of Misleading Your Shareholders What you see isn't what you get in the banking industry. |
Registered Rep.
January 12, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Citi Grabs a Lifeline, Morgan Stages a Coup Despite a $45 billion capital injection from the government in 2008, Citi is in dire enough need of capital that it is planning to spin off its retail brokerage operation, Smith Barney, according to reports, in a joint venture with cross-town rival Morgan Stanley |
BusinessWeek
September 9, 2010
Michael J. Moore |
Wall Street Faces a Grim Third Quarter Less activity in the stock and bond markets may crimp profits. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2002
Gaffen & Weinberg |
Brokers React to Citi's Research Move Sallie Krawcheck, former head of independent research firm Sanford C. Bernstein, will head a new business unit of Citigroup that will operate under the name Smith Barney, and include the private client group. Smith Barney brokers are skeptical, though. |
The Motley Fool
December 3, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Bankers Packing Heat! More news of the weird from the financial sector. |
The Motley Fool
April 7, 2010
William D. Cohan |
The End of Wall Street? The sad truth is that Wall Street is much the same as it was before; it's Main Street that may never be the same again. |
Registered Rep.
January 9, 2009 |
Citi: What Sandy Built, Pandit Will Dismantle? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Citigroup has put Smith Barney up for sale -- or a joint venture. |
The Motley Fool
November 12, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Understanding Goldman Sachs Trading, with a sprinkle of banking on the side, is what Goldman Sachs does. |
Registered Rep.
March 7, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Morgan Stanley May Drop "Smith Barney" From Name Will the Smith Barney name go the way of A.G. Edwards, Bear Stearns, and other brokerages whose historic identities were sublimated following acquisitions by larger firms? |
BusinessWeek
December 9, 2009
Alison Fitzgerald |
Americans Are Furious at Wall Street A new Bloomberg National Poll shows that Americans are angry at banks and brokers -- and furious about bonuses. |
Registered Rep.
May 30, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
The New Smith Barney CEO Sallie Krawcheck was recruited to restore the credibility of Smith Barney and lead the business through its toughest slump in a generation. Krawcheck wants Smith Barney advisors to more than double their average annual production to $1 million. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2008
Morgan Housel |
End of an Era for Goldman Sachs It's been a respectable year, even as the company posts it's first-ever quarterly loss, but what does the future have in store for this Wall Street titan? |
The Motley Fool
September 18, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Citigroup Hates Its Profitable Assets With Smith Barney divested, shareholders may wonder where profits will come from. |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2009
Morgan Housel |
There's No Recession for Goldman Sachs Record bonuses are in store for Goldman's employees. Is that a good thing? |
BusinessWeek
October 14, 2010
Bradley Keoun |
Bank Profits Are Being Squeezed As Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and other big banks invest, costs are outpacing revenue. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
Goldman Sachs Isn't as Good as You Think This look at the numbers shows Goldman Sachs perhaps isn't as golden as its reputation. |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Bank Buybacks Gone Bad Wall Street's biggest investors lost billions -- by buying back their own shares. |
BusinessWeek
October 7, 2010
Dawn Kopecki |
Women on Wall Street Fall Further Behind The pay gap in finance has gotten wider and is now the biggest in any industry. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007
John Churchill |
Sallie's Back At first glance, this second coming of Sallie Krawcheck probably looks like a cakewalk compared to her first adventure in 2002. But, make no mistake: Smith Barney is not the awesome brokerage it appears to be on paper. |
Registered Rep.
September 9, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Acknowledging Some "Inappropriate Behavior," Sandy Weill Defends Solly Sandy Weill, chairman of Salomon Smith Barney's parent Citigroup, acknowledged that his firm may have engaged in some inappropriate behavior during the bull market and said that Citigroup would have to make "amends" to regain respect. |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Don't Do It, Goldman Some investors pine for a return to investment banking. Big mistake. |
U.S. Banker
November 2002
Michael Sisk |
Compensation Consternation Boards could prove the wild card in setting bank executives' bonuses. |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2008
Christopher Barker |
The Worst Kind of Deja Vu After 75 years, our biggest financial mistakes have returned. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2010
Alex Dumortier |
Which Bank Will Financial Reform Hit Hardest? The SEC's fraud charges against Goldman Sachs has given a fresh impetus to lawmakers wanting to pass legislation on financial reform. Who's in the crosshairs? |
The Motley Fool
December 17, 2008
Morgan Housel |
No Good News for Morgan Stanley If Morgan Stanley really is retreating from the old investment banking model, then what's next for the investment-bank-turned-bank-holding-company? |
Entrepreneur
September 2008
Carol Tice |
It's Your Business Rising costs push entrepreneurs to take back their companies in going-private deals. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 16, 2006
Ann Cullen |
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist? An interview with Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf about her research on how Adam Smith's 1759 work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, presages the emerging field of behavioral economics. |
The Motley Fool
December 4, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Stick a Fork in Free Market Banking Let's stop fooling ourselves when talking about potential solutions. The U.S. banking system is not a free market system. Efforts to free up banks to do whatever they like have only allowed insiders to profit while the rest of the country bears the risks. |
BusinessWeek
September 18, 2006
Hardy Green |
Adam, We Hardly Knew Ye "The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas" is an engaging look at the often-misrepresented 18th century philosopher. |
The Motley Fool
January 22, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Will This Fix Our Financial System? Will yesterday's proposed overhauls -- touted by some as a return to the Glass-Steagall days -- sufficiently stomp on sin and folly? |
Registered Rep.
March 8, 2012
Kristen French |
Due Diligence: Morgan Stanley Advisors Paid to Put Clients in New Amex Credit Card Morgan Stanley Smith Barney financial advisors and client service associates will get a "small" amount of compensation for the administrative process of handling card sign up. |
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 20, 2010
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Q3 Earnings Dive 67%, Wealth Management Is Most Profitable Division Morgan Stanley Smith Barney dunked into the red in the third quarter, with earnings falling 67 percent to 5 cents a share, due to a sharp decline in the firm's institutional securities business. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Morgan Stanley Dazzles, Sort Of A good quarter, sure, but I'm interested on where the bank can go from here. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2005
Rich Duprey |
A Scattershot Smith & Wesson Despite affirming guidance, the gunmaker represents a dangerous investment. |
The Motley Fool
December 30, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Goldman Sachs Got Tarnished in 2011 It was a disappointing year for Goldman Sachs' shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2009
Rich Smith |
What in the World Is Goldman Sachs Thinking? In the annals of investment banking, Goldman Sachs deserves a chapter all its own. Seldom has a company been so reviled, admired, envied, and even feared. This week, Goldman is thinking about banks, the market, and busts. |
Registered Rep.
March 25, 2009
Kristen French |
Regionals Buying B/D Branches, It's All About AIG, BofA's Reassurances Stifel Nicolaus to buy 55 UBS wealth management branches spread across 24 states... Fallout from the AIG bonus kerfuffle continues to dominate the news... Bank of America to repay TARP money by April... |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Goldman Feels the Heat Though it wasn't a terrible quarter for Goldman Sachs, it's become apparent that banking is a terrible industry right now. And after a crazy week, some question even Goldman Sachs' future. |
Registered Rep.
January 13, 2009
David Geracioti |
Citi, Morgan Stanley Agree To Form Joint Venture; Reps Will Receive Retention Bonus--Gorman Says: "We're Not Stupid" The combined retail brokerage units will become the largest financial services firm in the world and be a "force to be reckoned with." The combined entity will have more than 20,000 Financial advisors and an estimated $1.7 trillion in client assets. |
Registered Rep.
April 18, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Chuck Prince: Smith Barney Goin' Nowhere Citigroup's CEO has been at the center of company news recently with his plans to cut costs including last week's announcement of about 17,000 job cuts. That cut may affect over 100 Smith Barney employees and about 30 advisors. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005 |
Errata and Clarification Due to an editing error, a "Where Are They Now?" brief in the Ten To Watch feature package (August 2005) was incorrect... Due to an error by a Smith Barney spokesperson, September's Top 50 Advisors table erroneously listed Ed McNamee... |
AFP eWire
December 3, 2007 |
New Bank Philanthropy Fund Has Billion-Dollar Goal A new donor-advised fund started by global investment bank Goldman Sachs has a goal of raising $1 billion over the next several years. |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2005
Nathan Slaughter |
Citi Steps Back Nation's largest financial company sells insurance division to Met Life. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 6, 2004
Cynthia Ramsaran |
First Command Bank Perks Up Loan Process Bank uses an automated loan application solution to increase productivity of loan officers. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2002
Ross Tucker |
Happy Holidays! You're Fired. The ax will fall at year's end for some 700 of 13,500 Morgan Stanley brokers. Some branches will be closed entirely. |
Entrepreneur
November 2006
Nichole L. Torres |
Loud and Clear Boost sales by selling customers on your competitive advantage. |
