Carl Icahn Says He's Going To Reveal Another Big Investment On Twitter Soon
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said he's going to reveal his next big investment on Twitter. "In the next few weeks, there will be another big one...and my Twitter followers will be the first to...
View ArticleTwo Wall Street CEOs Talk Inequality — One Sounds Like He Gets It, One Doesn't
The No. 1 topic of discussion at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos is inequality, so it seems every journalist is asking every noteworthy attendee — from CEOs to investors — about their...
View ArticleOnly An Investment Banker Could Write This Angry Seamless Review About A...
An investment banker at a mid-town Manhattan office wrote the following Seamless review after ordering a rare roast beef sandwich that turned out to be a total disaster. The review doesn't appear to...
View ArticleTo Get The Hottest Job On Wall Street, You Have To Be Much More Than Good At...
It seems like every young person on Wall Street wants to end up in private equity these days — great pay, interesting projects, and often smaller, more close knit companies are making the space very...
View ArticleBILLIONAIRE HEDGE FUND MANAGER: The Derivatives I Love To Trade Are Hurting...
On Wednesday, Paul Singer, founder of the hedge fund Elliott Management, was on a panel at the World Economic Forum about safety in our global financial system.In sum: He believes we're not safe. More...
View ArticleSome Of Wall Street's Favorite Activist Investors Are Eating Companies Alive
The hot new investment strategy on Wall Street these days is to go activist, but what those activists do once they go after their targets could be slowly killing the companies they invest in.It looks...
View ArticleJamie Dimon Is Getting A Raise
JPMorgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon is said to be getting a pay raise for 2013, DealBook's Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Susanne Craig report citing anonymous execs at the bank. Last year, Dimon took a...
View ArticleJamie Dimon's Pay Raise Sends A Worrying Message About What Really Matters To...
After heated debate, JP Morgan's board voted to increase CEO Jamie Dimon's pay after a tumultuous year of embarrassing lawsuits for the bank, reports The New York Times' Jessica Silver-Greenberg and...
View ArticleJamie Dimon Made $20 Million Last Year
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon will be taking home $20 million in compensation for 2013, according to a securities filing just released by the bank. For 2012, Dimon took a huge pay cut when he earned $11.5...
View ArticleMadison Avenue Is Moving To Wall Street
CEO John Barker of Barker DZP gets excited when he talks about his agency's new offices in downtown New York. His advertising agency moved into a penthouse on Broad Street last September, and recently...
View ArticleMeet The Former Olympic Skier Who Now Works For Goldman Sachs
Former Olympic ski racer Marco Schafferer, who works for Goldman Sachs, told us that his sport helped him prepare for the high demands of working on Wall Street. "One of the biggest things is it's...
View ArticleFrench Investment Bank CEO Nails How Wall Street Should Think About Getting Paid
In an interview with CNBC's Squawk Box, Societe Generale CEO Frederic Oudea nailed how Wall Street should be thinking of compensation.Regulators have been saying this for a while, but it's nice to hear...
View Article22 Top Squash Players Working In Finance
This week, the prestigious J.P.Morgan Tournament of Champions squash event took place in Grand Central Station's Vanderbilt Hall. Squash happens to be one of the more popular sports played by finance...
View ArticleBank Of America Is Reportedly Being Investigated For One Of The Oldest...
Regulators are investigating Bank of America for front running its clients' large trading orders, according to documents reviewed by Reuters reporters Karen Brettell and Aruna Viswanatha.Front running...
View ArticleJordan Belfort's Former Head Of Security: He's Still A 'Scumbag'
The debate continues. Is Jordan Belfort — the 'Wolf of Wall Street' now immortalized in film — a reformed man out with a message, or is he a degenerate happily cashing in on his past misdeeds?Policy...
View ArticleEx-Trader: If You Want A Job On Wall Street, Build A Time Machine And...
**Editor's Note** This is a transcript of an interview Turney Duff, the author of "The Buy Side", did for the Short List in the UK. Interview questions begin below in italics, with Duff's responses in...
View ArticleCFA Results Are Out, And More People Passed Than Usual
The Level I Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) test results for the December exam are out.Even though most people failed, the pass rate is higher this time.Approximately 43% of the more than 45,000...
View ArticleInside The Famous Power Breakfast That Wall Streeters Love
It’s been 54 weeks since New York’s power brokers and political elite could do business over coffee and eggs benedict at the Loews Regency Hotel, known as the original birthplace of the “power...
View ArticleHundreds Of Wall Streeters Faced Off For A Seat At The World Series Of Poker...
On Wall Street, many of the biggest traders and fund managers love playing poker. And they're good at it, too. Pro poker player Phil Hellmuth, who has won thirteen bracelets at the World Series of...
View ArticleYoung Wall Street Is Trusting All Of Its Party Planning To One Company
For over a year, young New Yorkers have been opening their inboxes to find invitations from their friends to intimate ragers at some of the hottest bars and nightclubs in the city, and it's all thanks...
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