Billionaire among 6 nabbed in inside trading case - Yahoo! Finance: "Raj Rajaratnam, a portfolio manager for Galleon Group, a hedge fund with up to $7 billion in assets under management, was accused of conspiring with others to use insider information to trade securities in several publicly traded c ... Read more

Interesting look at the first time the Dow hit 10,000 back in 1999.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy ... Read the full post ... Read more

Check out the 2005 ad they have replicated. Wow. In hindsight looks beyond stupid.Guilty As Charged: Chase Mortgage Ad From 2005 Proves Subprime Culpability (JPM): ... Read the full post ... Read more

Shareholders are the most important party in the nexus of contracts largely because as residucal claimants they are in the best position to monitor the firm. So it is generally well accepted that managers should manage to maximize shareholder wealth. But to what extent does this mean executives ca ... Read more

We will definitely be talking about this one when classes start up again on Wedneday!Stock Whizzes Born Not Made, With Right Dopamine Gene (Update1) - Bloomberg.com: "People who excel at making snap decisions and learn quickly from their mistakes, skills tied to successful stock traders, may share a ... Read more

BBC NEWS | Business | Bloomberg acquires BusinessWeek: "The financial news and data provider Bloomberg has agreed to buy BusinessWeek magazine." ... Read the full post ... Read more

First the standard textbook, academic speal: When dealing with pay issues, there are two things to keep in mind: Level of pay and form of pay. The level of pay (how much) is what generally draws criticism and anger (caused in some part by jealousy) and is what "gets people in the door". Form of pay ... Read more

New ways of measuring market risk tolerance - Yahoo! Finance: "The asset-allocation tools you'll find online or that an adviser will employ when working with you routinely recommend stock allocations of 70% or more if you're younger than 55 or so. Target-date retirement funds that are the default in ... Read more

Bear Stearns trader thought funds could "blow up" - Telegraph: "In a series of emails he sent to his personal Google Mail account in diary, Mr Tannin wrote that he was worried one of the funds 'was going to subject investors to 'blow up risk.' 'I was worried that this would all end badly and that I ... Read more

A Guided Tour Of The NYC Commercial Real Estate Wreckage: "Last night's PBS NewsHour took a look at the bearish obsession du jour, the commercial real estate market. Real estate analyst Bob White took them around to show some of the ugliest cases out there" ... Read the full post ... Read more