When $1.7 billion Smith Barney finally completes its acquisition of Shearson Lehman Bros.' U.S. retail brokerage business in July, the two firms' fund investors should rejoice. Smith Barney vice ch...
Here's a 1993 contrarian investment to beat all: real estate. True, the office vacancy rate still tops 15% in most major cities. And banks, thrifts and the U.S. Government are stuck with $55 billio...
A funny thing happened since the 20% lump-sum withholding penalty, discussed in the preceding article, became law back in July. Those free seminars that brokerage firms put on for prospective custo...
Most investors saw just another defense contractor struggling to cope with cuts in military spending when General Motors Hughes Electronics (estimated 1992 revenues: $12.8 billion) announced plans ...
From their nickel-and-dime approach to small investors, you would never guess that U.S. brokerages earned a record $5.75 billion last year. Increasingly, firms are charging fees for issuing stock c...
Bargain-hunting investors have swept Wall Street's shelves almost clean of a perennial best buy -- strong closed-end stock funds selling at substantial discounts. Such funds let investors buy a dol...
It's getting more expensive to be a small investor these days. ''Brokerages have been mighty quick to pass on their rising costs to their customers,'' notes James Cloonan, president of the American...
With the stock market's recent tear, blue chips have reached a level 25% above their lows of last October. While analysts are warning that many issues look overpriced, they also note that some stoc...
In reference to your November Editor's Notes calling for help for our hostage families, the Mackevich Team at Shearson Lehman Bros. (Chicago) offers free counseling about pressing financial matters...
Inflation. Recession. Banking failures. War. The four horsemen of investment apocalypse are closing in on you like vengeful characters from a Renaissance woodcut. The stock market is bleeding badly...
August was the cruelest month. As oil prices shot from $18 to $32 a barrel, stock and bond prices plunged, handing small investors their biggest losses since the 1987 stock market crash. For the mo...
For the first seven months of 1990, small investors went on a stock-buying spree, boosting their holdings of equity funds by 15% to more than $285 billion -- $33 billion more than they owned in the...
You're in early, the office is quiet, and it's time for coffee, the paper -- and, at 7:30 sharp, today's fax. For the top Wall Streeter, the new morning habit is Notes on the Global Economy, a repo...
A braggadocious bull market and tax reform were the major stimulants to a record flow of new financial products in 1987. Many seemed ill-conceived even before the October crash. The performance of ...
The stock market does not take kindly to clairvoyants. No sooner does an analyst make enough correct predictions to be able to move stock prices than the market strikes the seer blind. The byways o...
Given the increasing volatility of the aging bull market, many stock investors are looking for ways to safeguard themselves. One method: stop orders. ''They are a reliable strategy for protecting p...
Here and on the pages that follow are recommendations from a panel of advisers on how four very different people should invest their next $1,000. Our panel: Bob Martel, a financial planner in Lexin...
Money Magazine: Madison Avenue chicupdated: Sun Mar 01 1987 00:01:00
Many corporations, worried by the sluggish economy, were stingy with their advertising dollars last year. As a result, the stocks of the large advertising agencies have been zapped by investors. Bu...
Money Magazine: CRASH-DEFYING BLUE CHIPSupdated: Sun Mar 01 1987 00:01:00
INVESTORS EAGER TO BUY INTO this bull market but feeling nervous about what lies ahead may want to consider blue chips. While the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones industrial average and other h...
Money Magazine: MONEY TALKS updated: Sat Nov 01 1986 00:01:00
''The amount of debt is almost academic. Would you rather fall off the Empire State Building or the World Trade Center?'' -- ROBERT JOEDICKE of Shearson Lehman Bros., commenting on the $4.5 billion...
Usually in this department, Money examines the accomplishments of entrepreneurs who are making money. This month, however, we focus on a group of future moneymakers: young people who will probably ...
Money Magazine: MONEY TALKS updated: Fri Aug 01 1986 00:01:00
''The greed pressures have built up so in this industry, the younger people want instant gratification. Maybe we have been paying too much too quickly to them.'' -- PETER A. COHEN, chairman of Shea...
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