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    Manning & Napier’s Top Four New Buys Are All Oil & Gas Companies

    15 january 2013 Manning & Napier is a more than 40-year-old management firm with about $44.7 billion in assets under management and 5.7% average annual return since inception. The firm…

    Apotheker’s Folly: H-P Should Have Bought Back Stock Instead Of Autonomy

    15 january 2013 Anger and frustration are the two emotions pulsing through my veins as I write this.  Hewlett-Packard, once the symbol of innovation, is being dismantled by its high-pedigreed…

    Wells Fargo Bank Gives Scammer Three Tries

    15 january 2013 How difficult is it to trick Wells Fargo Bank into wiring $2.1 million to a bogus bank account in Hong Kong? Maybe not as hard as you…

    The World’s Strongest Economy? The Global Art Market.

    15 january 2013 The annual Artprice report is out – the first of a group of annual analyses of the global art market, most of which generally repeat each others’…

    IMF: Past and Present Protocol

    15 january 2013 Due to the recent market gyrations and capital market consternation in Europe, it seems as though the International Monetary Fund (lMF) will loom quite large in the…

    Don’t Let Cases Of Financial Foul Play Keep You Out Of The Market

    15 january 2013 The financial sector sure seems to be ignoring the memo about the need to rebuild the public’s trust. Just look at the following headlines, all of which…

    New York Times Blunders into Advocacy Role on the Fracking Debate — Children are the Victims

    15 january 2013 Over the past two years, The New York Times has stumbled badly in its coverage of the natural gas revolution and fracking debate. Jon Entine, senior fellow…

    The Banks Seem To Be Chiseling Everyone Everywhere

    15 january 2013 Just as there are serial murderers in large cities that must be caught out and put away, there are serial financial criminals in vast impersonal banks who…

    A Hung Parliament Might Not Be So Bad

    15 january 2013 The U.K. is heading for a hung parliament. This will mean no party can push through laws to sort out the post-credit crunch confusion without bringing other…

    US Incomes Are Rising But It’s All Going on Health Care

    15 january 2013 A very nice observation here from Tim Taylor. We’re all aware of the figures that show that US incomes aren’t rising, that median income has been static…