Painter Erin Crowe, who recently made a splash by painting a series of portraits of Alan Greenspan, is celebrating his retirement with a "Goodbye Greenspan" show at the Broome Street Gallery in New York City where she’s showing 35 of her Greenspan works. The cost of the paintings? $800-$12,500. The show runs until February 5.
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After reporting not so rosy fourth quarter results, JP Morgan Chase is restructuring the management of its investment banking group. It’s the second time in 15 months that the unit has faced upheaval.
Always good for a laugh, Gawker.com had a post on Friday afternoon from Craig’s List, purportedly from a woman so desperate for a job with a hedge fund that she was offering to perform certain ’services’ to secure such a position…
Dresdner Klienwort Wasserstein isn’t taking the $1.4 billion sex discrimination suit filed against them by six female employees lying down. They’ve filed court documents accusing the group of courting the press for publicity and attempting to smear the company’s reputation. Five of the six women who filed suit are shown in the picture.
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According to a new study, "Sex Matters: Gender and Mutual Funds", by Stefan Ruenzi, an assistant finance professor at the University of Cologne in Germany and one of his Ph.D. students, Alexandra Niessen, there are differences in how men and women manage mutual funds….
After a few lean years where some had begun to wonder whether getting an MBA was still a wise investment, it seems like the good times are back again. MBA’s are back in vogue with the number of recruiters and applicants to MBA programs again on the rise.
Wanna know what Jim Cramer is saying but can’t stand listening to that loud shrieky voice? Recaps of his shows and trackings of his picks are available online….
How’s this for irony? Donald Trump, the self proclaimed ‘largest real estate developer in New York’, apparently received 9/11 recovery grants earmarked to help small businesses. He and several other large, well heeled entities including Morgan Stanley, Dell, The AXA Group, Ford Models. the Bank of China and The Rockefeller Group were able to get the funds because the Empire State Development Corp, the state agency doling out the grants ignored the federal definition of a small business and chose to use a much looser standard instead.
Jeffrey Skilling has hired controversial heavy hitter law professor and professional expert-witness-to-the-white-collar-crime-stars Jeffrey Fischel to testify at his Enron trial.
Leven Brown, an Edinburgh stockbroker with Stocktrade who had a dream of rowing solo across the Atlantic, and who sold his house and all of his possessions to fund his trip, successfully finished his journey yesterday. He raised at least £100,000 for two charities — The One City Trust and The Sportsman’s Charity with the trip’s completion.
BusinessWeek has compiled lists of the December’s best selling hard and soft covered business books:
Bent on breaking into the top tier of global investmment banking firms, but having trouble doing so, HSBC is set to shake up the management of its investment banking unit.
We all know how attached people get to their pets –even if they’re sometimes mechanical ones. Fans of Sony’s $2,000 never-have-to-potty-train robotic Aibo dogs are lamenting that Sony has pulled the plug on the mechanical man’s best friend.
Morgan Stanley announced that Gavin MacDonald would fill the head of European M & A position that opened up when star banker Paolo Pereira announced he would be leaving to go to Joe Perella’s new boutique venture.
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Those eagle eyed NY Post spies spotted SAC Capital founder and guzillionaire Steve Cohen doing a mundane task for himself: picking up a pizza….
Tags: Hedge funds, SAC Capital
Another high profile Morgan Stanley banker has flown the coop. This time it’s Paolo Pereira, MS’s head of European M&A who will be joining Joe Perella’s new firm.
On the flip side, Morgan Stanley has apparently managed to poach an investment team from hedge fund Millennium Partners, led by Michael Feldschuh.
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While a pay war on the West Coast is forcing associates’ pay rates upward, tightwad New York law firms appear to be having none of it….
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