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| Knowledge@Wharton |
What's Wrong With Spitzer's Solution to Analyst Bias? Experts on the financial markets disagree over how bad the stock-analyst bias problem is today. But few find much good to say about Eliot Spitzer's approach.   |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2005
John Churchill |
Merrill Takes a Late Hit on Research Scandal An NASD arbitration panel ordered Merrill Lynch to pay more than $1 million to an investor last month for hiding conflicts of interest and issuing fraudulent research. |
Salon.com
October 10, 2002
Damien Cave |
Wall Street's worst nightmare Does New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer really want to clean up the stock market, or just make himself look good? |
The Motley Fool
November 29, 2007
Saibal Saha |
Is Wall Street Out to Get You? Studies show some questionable practices continue at the top investment banking firms. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Kris Frieswick |
Investment Banking: More Bricks in the Wall Regulators are introducing new rules to ensure the objectivity of stock analysts, but what's good for investors could be bad for CFOs. |
Registered Rep.
October 29, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Morgan Stanley Opposes Fine Following the New York Attorney General's investigation of Merrill Lynch's research practices, the firm was fined $100 million. The attorney general's office is in the midst of an ongoing investigation of other firms, including Morgan Stanley, which is fighting back. |
Registered Rep.
April 28, 2003
Will Leitch |
Historic Settlement Doesn't Target Brokers -- But You're Hardly Home Free Now that the Wall Street global settlement is official, brokers might be inclined to heave a sigh of relief. Don't. While the settlement will have a lasting impact on the brokerage industry, brokers have been unscathed by the Spitzer investigations -- so far. |
Registered Rep.
September 25, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
NY Attorney General: I Could Have Nailed Merrill on More Serious Charges Eliot Spitzer said he could have pursued criminal charges against Merrill Lynch for its conflicts of interest in its research, but that he didn't want to "destroy" the firm or Wall Street. |
U.S. Banker
July 2002
Michael Dumiak |
Street Smart! Eliot Spitzer snuck up on Wall Street and became a force for financiers to reckon with. And he's just getting started. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
A White Knight For Mutual-Fund Investors No mutual-fund executive wants to get a phone call from Eliot Spitzer these days. |
Registered Rep.
June 3, 2003
Will Leitch |
Brokerage Chiefs in Spitzer's Sights When New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced the $1.4 billion settlement of the securities conflict of interest case in April, his office warned that it was "the beginning, not the end." Wirehouses are finding out, in a big way, that he wasn't kidding. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
In Search of a New Investment Banking Model: The Debate Goes On One of the panels at the recent student-sponsored Wharton Finance Conference was subtitled: "In Search of the Optimal Business Model for Investment Banking." Given the current pall on Wall Street, that search has taken on new urgency. |
The Motley Fool
May 19, 2008
Saibal Saha |
"Sell" Is a 4-Letter Word Wall Street analysts hate to put down stocks, but praising everything doesn't help either. Merrill Lynch is taking steps to change the system. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2006
Dan Reingold |
The Insiders' Game This author and Wall Street analyst concludes in his new book, Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst, that we'll never get a clear read on exactly where some insiders went wrong and whether our securities laws, regulations and sanctions are sufficient to deter such behavior in the future. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2004
Will Leitch |
The End of the World as We Know It? Is the traditional model for securities houses --- investment banking, research, asset management, retail brokerage all coexisting under one roof --- more trouble than it's worth? |
Salon.com
July 19, 2001
Damien Cave |
Wall Street gets an F Two new books on the economy blast investment bankers for bias and warn that the financial system is out of anyone's control... |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 18, 2004
Ann Cullen |
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts Historically, stock analysts' recommendations have been swayed by business relationships between the analyst's employer and the target company, says Professor Mark Bradshaw. Have recent SEC reforms helped? |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Merrill's Running of the Bull What kind of risks is this firm taking to grow its earnings? Are investors willing to let management's plans unfold? |
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. |
Knowledge@Wharton
August 13, 2003 |
Hurt by Hard Times, Financial Services Firms Seek New Directions Given the volatile events that rocked the financial world over the past decade, one wonders what the next 10 years hold for the financial services industry. |
Registered Rep.
July 2, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Judge Dismisses Class-Action Suits Against Merrill, Others It was a victory in court yesterday for Merrill Lynch and three other large investment banks -- Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Goldman Sach -- as judges dismissed claims in two class action suits related to the firms' tainted stock research. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2004
Bill Mann |
New Standards Help Shareholders Many will think this sort of topic belongs squarely in the "so what?" category. But after the French company LVMH sued Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MWD) for what it considered to be extremely negative coverage -- and won -- this issue takes on some importance. |
CFO
May 1, 2003
Joseph McCafferty |
On Closer Examination Reform of sell-side research is creating a variety of new headaches for corporations. |
Registered Rep.
November 12, 2003 |
Morgan Stanley Launches Conflict-of-Interest Probe Morgan Stanley has announced it is conducting an in-house conflict-of-interest probe. |
Registered Rep.
April 8, 2004
Joan Warner |
Trouble In The House That Purcell Built? After suffering through a cruel bear market, Morgan Stanley has come under regulatory scrutiny and legal fire for practices in several key businesses in the past two years, including mutual fund sales. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2005
Will Leitch |
Indie Research (A Non-Event So Far) When the Wall Street research scandal drew to its close last July, many reps wondered how it would change their lives. In addition to coughing up millions of dollars in fines, the firms agreed to new rules on how sell-side research would be conducted and presented to clients. |
Registered Rep.
June 18, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Judge Skeptical of Investors Suing Merrill Attorneys at Merrill Lynch asked a federal judge in New York to throw out a suit representing thousands who lost money in the Internet bubble, and the firm's pleas appear to be finding a receptive ear. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
From Consolidation to Regulation FD: Financial Services Face a Major Upheaval Consolidation. Regulation FD. Conflicts of interest. Global competition. In discussing the state of the financial services industry, it's hard not to reference the events of Sept. 11. Yet even before that day, the industry was facing significant change on a number of fronts... |
Knowledge@Wharton
June 4, 2003 |
Pump and Dump: Analyst Bias and Corporate Financing A new study by Wharton accounting professor Scott Richardson and two colleagues suggests that, even if most sell-side analysts don't lie, they are so overly upbeat that their forecasts of corporate earnings and stock-price targets are hardly more accurate than falsehoods. |
The Motley Fool
July 18, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Dissecting Merrill's Earnings A second look at the bumper earnings from Merrill Lynch. Investors, take note. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
Glenn Curtis |
Is Merrill Lynch Headed to the Altar? Despite repeated denials by UBS CEO Marcel Ospel, there is persistent speculation that the Zurich-based bank has been preparing a formal takeover bid for Merrill Lynch. However, there are hurdles, and Merrill may stick it out alone. |
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Merrill Fined $2.5 Million Over Lax Email Oversight The SEC slapped the nation's largest brokerage with a $2.5 million fine and a cease-and-desist order for a "systemic" mishandling of email records related to its brokerage business. |
Entrepreneur
January 2005
Joshua Kurlantzick |
Word on the Street Scandal-ridden investment houses are leaving gaps in the financial market, and savvy entrepreneurs are jumping at the chance to fill them. How will this trend shape the new face of Wall Street? |
Registered Rep.
March 3, 2006
Halah Tourylai |
Third Wirehouse Coughs Up Millions In Overtime Cases Yesterday, Morgan Stanley became the third wirehouse, after Merrill Lynch and UBS, to settle class action suits with California brokers over overtime pay in the past seven months -- the second in three weeks. |
Registered Rep.
February 8, 2004
Will Leitch |
IT Spending Expected To Rise in 2004 A new study asserts that Wall St. firms are ready to address one of reps' most common complaints in recent years: the lack of resources devoted to internal infrastructure, especially technology. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
Who Will be Number One Among the Wirehouses? A good old-fashioned Wall Street fight for retail assets -- and a fierce tussle over which firm can call itself the Number One retail wealth management firm on Wall Street -- is brewing. |
BusinessWeek
April 19, 2004
Marcia Vickers |
Charles Merrill: Selling Stocks To The Masses Over the next decade after the 1929 market crash Charles E. Merrill burnished a revolutionary idea: Bring Wall Street to Main Street by democratizing the market. In 1940, he gave his vision shape by creating the brokerage firm now known as Merrill Lynch & Co. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Merrill Takes it To the Bank One of Merrill Lynch's major initiatives in the coming year will be to continue to attract clients to the firm's expanded banking service, known as Beyond Banking. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Global Securities Markets Present Tough Challenges for Investors and Regulators The bursting of the Internet bubble, the collapse of Enron and the emerging demutualization of securities exchanges, especially in Europe, have brought the role of securities market regulators into sharper focus than before... |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2005
Richard Roth |
The Worst is Over---Probably It's clear then that brokerage firms and retail brokers alike will be glad when the all-clear has sounded and Wall Street can stop looking over its shoulder and get back to work. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
Bob Veres |
The Big Regulatory Fix If the same few companies are behind virtually every major financial scandal and meltdown, why are the regulators talking about tightening up on all financial advisors? |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Brokers Offer Second Opinions Brokerages go from conflicts of interest to conflicts of recommendations. Many brokerages will now begin sending you second opinions on various investment opportunities along with their own recommendations. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Party On, Merrill! For investors in the brokerage industry, it would appear that the party still isn't over. Merrill Lynch delivered knockout first-quarter results. |
Registered Rep.
March 23, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Investment Fraud Suit Brought By Brokers Blocked By The Supremes It might just have gotten harder to sue your firm and win money for bad research. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that investors who believe they were duped into holding stocks by a brokerage firm are precluded from filing large class-action lawsuits in state courts. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2003
Glenn S. Curtis |
War, What Is It Good For? War, or rather the prelude to war, has been, historically, bad for the stock market. One group of stocks harder hit than most during these saber-rattling times is the brokerage sector. |
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 23, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Maybe a Bull Case for Merrill Lynch This large broker-dealer is doing well, but further operating improvements could make it a bargain for investors. |
Registered Rep.
July 30, 2009
John Churchill |
Pressure to Reign In Executive Compensation Grows New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo released a report today on the compensation practices of the banking industry. Top on the list of concerns was the compensation structure at larger banks. |
Wall Street & Technology
May 21, 2007
Greg MacSweeney |
20 Year Wall Street Data Veteran Roseann Palmieri Joins Merrill Lynch Palmieri's career -- including 10 years at Morgan Stanley, six years at Deutsche Bank and, most recently, four years at Bank of America Securities -- has touched almost every part of the data management business. |
BusinessWeek
November 26, 2007
Maria Bartiromo |
John Thain on His New Job as CEO of Merrill Lynch John Thain talks about his appointment as CEO of Merrill Lynch. |
