January 1, 2011
Francesca JaroszFunds ride resurgent market after taking a beating in the financial crisis.
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January 1, 2011
Sam BrattainBooming growth, rising middle classes are attracting investors.
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December 28, 2010
Associated PressStarting in January, more than 10,000 baby boomers a day will turn 65, but many are facing a personal finance disaster just
as they're hoping to retire.
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December 18, 2010
Greg AndrewsTraditional analysts are high on the electronics retailer, but short-sellers, those who profit when a stock falls instead
of rises, couldn't disagree more.
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December 7, 2010
Scott OlsonFounded in 2005, The Archer Funds will now have three mutual funds to offer clients. It is among just a handful of locally
based firms that markets its own mutual funds.
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November 20, 2010
Paul CoanLooking at the final years of the Great Depression tells me that next year might not be so kind to investors.
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November 20, 2010
Norm HeikensAt 78, L. Gene Tanner is one of the longest-serving investment advisers working in Indianapolis. Tanner spoke with IBJ's
Norm Heikens about why he shifted to City Securities, his brush with convicted Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff, and how
his investment strategy has changed.
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November 20, 2010
Marc D. AllanExperts are split over whether runup in precious metal is a classic bubble.
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November 13, 2010
Ken SkarbeckBenchmarking has exploded with the industry’s propensity to slice and dice and categorize every segment of the overall investment
pie.
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October 30, 2010
Ken SkarbeckThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing significant changes to the structure of the annual marketing or distribution
fee on mutual funds known as a 12(b)-1 fee.
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October 16, 2010
Ken SkarbeckUnfortunately, if BH thought it was breaking ground in the field of executive compensation with this plan, it has fallen short.
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October 11, 2010
Scott OlsonL. Gene Tanner has left PNC Investments to join City Securities Corp. The veteran stockbroker who began his career with the
former Raffensperger Hughes firm in 1958 said he has returned to familiar territory.
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September 4, 2010
Ken SkarbeckA recent report from the consulting and research firm McKinsey & Co. detailed the propensity for investment firm analysts
to repeatedly issue excessively optimistic earnings forecasts.
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August 31, 2010
IBJ Staff and Associated PressKelley School of Business Dean Dan Smith said a $100,000 donation from two IU alumni will provide a hands-on learning opportunity
for students.
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August 19, 2010
Dorothy Geisler-Tragardh, who had been a partner in a clean-coal energy company called Praxis Resource Partners LLC, was accused
of running a stock-sale scheme in which she took nearly $2 million from investors.
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July 10, 2010
Ken SkarbeckTo achieve outsized returns, whether in mutual funds or individual stocks, investors must avoid the hype and reliance on past
outperformance.
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June 12, 2010
Greg AndrewsThe financial underpinnings for the current quarterly dividend—45.5 cents per share—seem less than sturdy.
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June 12, 2010
Ken Skarbeckfor decades, politicians have regularly boosted public pension benefits to score election gains, while neglecting the long-term
costs to municipal budgets. Now the bills are coming due.
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June 12, 2010
Mike HicksOne major part of the legislation will target derivatives. This is an arena where the financial services industry does itself
no good from a public relations sense.
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May 25, 2010
Associated PressThe Dow Jones industrials plunged below 10,000 Tuesday as traders turned away from stocks amid worries about the global economy
and tensions between North and South Korea.
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May 15, 2010
Ken SkarbeckIs investing becoming a technology-rigged game for computerized gamblers who rent stocks for seconds or minutes and whose
objective is to repeatedly skim small profits?
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May 1, 2010
Ken SkarbeckLilly Endowment has been a substantial Lilly stockholder for 73 years, so to focus on the past decade is a mistake.
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April 17, 2010
Ken SkarbeckGrace held her investment through many ups and downs in the stock market. But most important to her was that Abbott as a
business continued to thrive, despite the swings in its stock price.
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April 3, 2010
Ken SkarbeckWhen we left, we were trying to imagine a few of the many obstacles Grace might have encountered as her initial investment
grew into $7 million over 74 years.
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March 20, 2010
Ken SkarbeckBack in 1935, she invested $180 in Abbott Laboratories stock and never sold it. This one decision became the entire investment
career of Grace Groner.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.