HAUKE: Great ideas not as good as excellent timing
The market often stays wrong much longer than the early investors stay solvent.
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Top local money managers hedge against stagflation
Faced with the potential for another bout with stagflation, investment managers are scrambling to decide how to face a future when markets may again be thrown into turmoil by the two-headed monster of frisky price increases and crummy economic conditions.
SKARBECK: Getting a good price hinges on stock’s value
Making investment decisions based on where a stock price has been in the past or betting on where it may go in the future is futile and foolish unless the investor has determined the value of the stock.
SKARBECK: Lenders still not serious about serious reform
The early signs point to meek efforts by the Obama administration to address gaping regulatory issues.
HAUKE: Sinking of dark pools may have consequences
If I were working with the SEC, I would exercise some caution before issuing new regulations about these dark pools.
SKARBECK: Market a bright spot amid worrisome economy
The financial media have the corks ready to pop as the Dow Jones industrial average re-crosses what pundits claim is the â??psychologically importantâ?? 10,000 level.
Schrenker plans book about plane crash
An indicted Indiana money manager plans a book about an attempt to flee mounting personal problems that ended with him parachuting
from a plane that later crashed into a Florida swamp.
HAUKE: October likely to avoid much-predicted scariness
The two largest stock market crashes occurred in October.
Trial delayed for money manager Schrenker
An Indiana judge has delayed until March the trial on securities fraud charges of a former money manager who tried to fake
his own death by jumping from a small plane before it crashed in Florida.
Stock-market rebound lifts hopes of Hoosier mutual funds
The economic downturn walloped all three of the mutual funds headquartered in Indiana. But they’ve each enjoyed significant
recoveries this year. And the smallest of the bunch has big plans to break away from the pack.
State charges Stifel Nicolaus didn’t disclose risks of auction-rate securities
An administrative complaint filed today by the Indiana Secretary of State’s Office alleges Stifel Nicolaus failed to disclose
risks associated with the sale of auction-rate securities to 141 Hoosiers who invested $54.9 million.
HAUKE: Gold-crazed investors keep pushing price up
Gold has been part of our story since the beginning of time. For at least 5,000 years, humans have been able
to find it, mine it, process it and shape it into all kinds of things.
SKARBECK: Hedge fund superstars take it on the chin
Lauded as “masters of the universe,” the star investment managers overseeing the largest hedge funds built
huge expectations they couldn’t fulfill.
Schrenker in Indiana to face fraud charges
An money manager who tried to fake his own death in a Florida plane crash will make a video appearance in court to face Indiana
felony charges stemming from his financial dealings.
Schrenker faces nine more charges in Indiana
An Indiana money manager scheduled to be sentenced today in Florida on charges he deliberately crashed his plane to fake his
death and flee financial ruin now faces more charges in his home state.
A bit of Lauth history
Regarding the May 25 story, [“Lauth granted reprieve,”] please note that Lauth Property Group is an offshoot of the original company founded by myself and Terry Eaton in 1976. It was then known as Ernst/Eaton Associates.
Top investment minds weigh in on erratic market
In recent weeks, two of the planet’s most respected investment minds have weighed in with their thoughts on the state of the world’s financial affairs—Bill Gross at PIMCO in southern California and Jeremy Grantham of GMO LLC in Boston. It is always worthwhile to examine their thoughts and the logic behind them. As investor hopes […]
Beyond being a great investor, Buffett writes wittily and well
One of the greatest investors of all time, Warren Buffett is always refreshingly candid and informative in his letters to investors, and 2008’s 21-page missive is no exception.
Stocks are looking better, but keep your eyes open
Stop paying attention to the news and keep in mind that the stock market is only a tool for you to use to make money.
Auction-rate securities suit names Stifel’s Cohen, others
Among defendants named in a Missouri lawsuit against investment firm Stifel Nicolaus and Co. is Stifel Managing Director Jeffrey
Cohen, who is based in the company’s Indianapolis
office.