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CEOs Who Should Lose Their Jobs

It's the new era of accountability: Most of the nation's worst-performing bosses have been shown the door. But what about the guys who just won't go? Meet the Teflon CEOs. Poor results, declining stock prices, and strategic blunders just seem to slide right off them.READ»

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Bonds slip as economy shrinks less than forecast

"Consumer spending is about 70 percent of the GDP and this looks like the lowest it has been in two decades, which goes to show that in the fourth quarter we are going into the recession, said Bill Walsh, president of Hennion & Walsh in Parsippany, New Jersey."READ»

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Nonsense At Work

Explaining the Wall Street mess:Here’s how I use motivation to explain the Wall Street mess.  Can you motivate others?  No.  Motivation is an internal desire, not an external force.Yes, it is possible to ‘get’ ...READ»

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Hennion and Walsh News: Investors Clamor For ETFs in Retirement Account

Investors "are asking about them all of the time, and they want them added to their portfolios,"said Kevin Mahn, chief investment officer at Hennion & Walsh Asset Management Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., which manages about $300 million.READ»

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Hennion and Walsh News: Short FinancialETFs Slide After Short-selling Ban

"ETFs will matter more than they ever have now through Oct 2," said Kevin Mahn, Managing Director of Hennion & Walsh, a New Jersey-based brokerage. "It gives the investor the ability to short through sector as opposed to a specific stock."READ»

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Hennion and Walsh: What's Ahead For The Financial System?

"With the continued news and noise around AIG, Washington Mutual, Lehman Bros. and Merrill Lynch, it all seems like it's going up to a crescendo in terms of the doom and gloom and bad news."READ»

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Hennion and Walsh Your Q&A: How Do Funds Use Leverage?

Kevin D. Mahn is a managing director and chief investment officer at Hennion & Walsh. "One has to be careful to control the amount of leveraged exposure that one has not only to a given asset class, sector, style or market cap but also within one's portfolio as a whole."READ»

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Hennion & Walsh Asset Management Launches a Trio of SmartGrowth Lipper Funds

PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwire - June 12, 2007) - Hennion & Walsh Asset Management, a registered investment advisor, is pleased to announce the debut of a trio of new funds-of-ETFs, the SmartGrowth Lipper® Funds. These mutual funds help take the guess work out of choosing the right mix of exchange-traded funds ("ETFs") from among the ever-growing universe of ETFs and allow investors a chance to avoid some common pitfalls such as selecting inferior, unproven or inappropriate ETFs and increasing risk through sector or security overlap.READ»

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Basic Concepts Part 2

The Definition of a Covered Call Covered call writing is the sale (writing) of a call option against a stock currently held by an investor. Generally, one call option represents 100 shares of stock. The writer receives cash for ...READ»

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FOREX AUTOMONEY - facts and review

One of the popular forex trading software that I have tried is Forex Automoney. This membership is very useful to anyone who wants to automate their trading and make money from it.What do you need to make money with Forex Automoney?1. ...READ»

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What Happens to the Market in the Next Leg Down?

The swift collapse of stock prices this week was not supposed to happen – if you listened to the experts. This was earnings season, with many companies beating the consensus estimates, healthcare reform was a win-win for the insurance industryREAD»

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Sany Heavy Equipment 59% Profit Jumps

Heavy construction equipment maker, Sany Heavy Industry Co Ltd prepares for an initial public offering, IPO in Hong Kong after posting its 59.3% year-on-year growth net profit, 2009. The data was uncovered by United Equipment Sales, ...READ»

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Hacker. Dropout. CEO.

When Mark Zuckerberg showed up in Palo Alto three years ago, he had no car, no house, and no job. Today, he's at the helm of a smokin'-hot social-networking site, Facebook, and turning down billion-dollar offers. Can this kid be for real?READ»

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CEO See-Ya! Anniversary Special!

How are five bosses faring a year after we said they should get the boot?READ»

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Googling for Courage

With their daring IPO, Larry Page and Sergey Brin are fighting the Wall Street cartel.READ»

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Shawn Brennan, Brennan Capital Group

Shawn Brennan, Brennan Capital GroupREAD»

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Paradoxes in PE: IPO's, LBO's and M+A

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Hennion and Walsh News: Is Cash You Keep at Your Brokerage Safe?

"'With any brokerage firm you have to pay attention to what the sweep is going into,' says Bill Walsh, president of money-management firm Hennion & Walsh Asset Management"READ»

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Wall Street Melt Down Survival Portfolio

Many Wall Street investors are seeking direction in a confused and interconnected global market. If someone sneezes in Europe now, everyone catches cold. However the long-term outlook examining the global financial conditions, we ...READ»

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Investors Take To T-Bonds Amid Uncertainty

"'You still have a yield curve that makes sense,' said Bill Walsh, chief executive of the investment services firm Hennion & Walsh, since the shortest maturity still has the lowest yield. From a historical perspective, however, Walsh said the yield curve was pretty steep as a result of the usual pressures such as supply and demand and the flight to quality--bond markets are considered a safe place to park money."READ»

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Euro Crash

CMG's Shawn Baldwin explores the implications of a weakened Euro READ»

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Hennion and Walsh News: Dow Jones Newswires - 11/14/2008

TIP SHEET: SmartGrowth Funds Bet On ETFs, Short S&P 500 "A U.S. recession isn't pretty for most companies, but portfolio managers at Hennion & Walsh Asset Management are betting on a universe of roughly 240 exchange traded funds to beat the worst bear market since the Great Depression."READ»

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Investors Running Out Of Places To Hide

"Bill Walsh, Chief Executive of Hennion & Walsh, an investment-services company, said the modest improvement in bond prices--which lowers yields--was a flight to safety spurred by data released Wednesday showing that the U.S. job market weakened October."READ»

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Hennion and Walsh News: When the stock and bond markets look scary, cash seems like a safe bet. But is it?

"While bank savings accounts, CDs and money markets can help you sleep better at night, 'they are terrible long-term assets because they are certain to depreciate in value over time," says Bill Walsh, president of Hennion & Walsh Asset Management in Parsippany, N.J.'"READ»

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Hennion and Walsh News: Getting Your Shares

"Mahn says SmartGrowth's approach reflects what "many advisors and individual investors are starting to realize: that the depth of ETFs that are in the marketplace, with the ability to go long and short certain asset classes and sectors, and the ability to access foreign currency markets and commodities, in such an easy and convenient manner of an ETF, is affording an ability to build really cost-efficient portfolios."READ»