Todd Petzel of Offit Capital Advisors kicked off the Hedge World’s Managed Futures and Commodity Trading Conference last week at Chicago’s University Club. Buy side professionals gathered to discuss their investment options in the current crisis market. They listened as Petzel went through examples of failed investment approaches and the common factors each case shared.
Contributed by Alana Elsner A small bead drops from just below his hairline – picking up speed as it falls. Conscious of this, he wipes the sweat from his brow, trying to focus on the task set before him. Even the most nimble move could mean the difference between winning and losing- between life and […]
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Contributed by Caroline Ceniza-Levine of SixFigureStart I have been planning a move to another state, where I don’t have a job yet. Should I just move and try to find a job when I’m there? Are employers more interested in candidates who are instate rather than long-distance? Moving to a new geographic location without a […]
Warren Buffet gets to play Willy Wonka, as he facilitates the acquisition of chewing gum giant Wrigley by closely-held candy conglomerate Mars Corporation, maker of M&Ms, Snickers, Mars and Milky Way bars. The deal, announced on April 29, 2008, will involve Mars and Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway teaming up to acquire Wrigley for $23 billion. […]
Contributed by Alana Elsner From a student of the 1960s, to a single working mother, to Time’s “Hero for the Planet”, Joan Bavaria has certainly led an extraordinary life. “I was the generation of women who tried to do everything,” she explained. As founder and C.E.O. of Trillium Asset Management- one of the first and […]
Contributed by Jacqueline Church The Glass Hammer article “Why Working Mothers Lie” and the comments that followed it illustrate what can go wrong when work and family issues are mishandled at the workplace. The problem is not bias against working mothers, though it exists. It’s not preferential treatment for working parents, though this too […]
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s proposal to merge the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is not a new one. Robert Litan, a senior fellow at the non-partisan think tank Brookings Institute, told the Chicago Tribune that the Bush administration is using the distress in capital markets as a way […]
Contributed by Heather Cassell Nora Denzel is very happy with her new seat on the board of directors of Overland Storage, a San Diego-based data storage company, she says. Denzel, Senior Vice President of payroll services at Intuit, Inc., found her board seat with the assistance of BoardMatch, a program run by Forum for Women […]
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