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Here's Why 1 Investment Bank Says Blackstone Just Hit a "Major Milestone"

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The addition to the S&P 500 is a significant accomplishment, since the index is one of the most common benchmarks for measuring the stock market's performance. It should also benefit from increased demand for its stock, as mutual funds and ETFs that track the index need to buy to match the index's allocation.

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Warren Buffett Recently Sold 34 Million Shares of Bank of America. But That Doesn't Mean You Should

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Or, in the case of, say, a mutual fund, it might sell shares in order to generate some cash with which to cover withdrawals from the fund. Think for yourself So it's generally not smart to sell (or buy) shares of a stock just because some big money did so. So any given move might not be driven by Buffett himself.

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The Good News About High Valuations; the Problem With Glide Paths

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In this podcast, Motley Fool host Ricky Mulvey and Jules van Binsbergen, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, discuss: Market sentiment. Disconnects between the real economy and financial markets. stock market is merely a "lucky survivor." Savings goals. Whether the U.S.

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What Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Told Investors

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Jason Moser: I think it's with Goldman Sachs, Goldman is not the first bank I think that comes to people's minds when we think about consumer banking. Goldman, it's an investment bank. Jason Moser: Well, like I said, Goldman is an investment bank. Because in most years, stocks outperform cash.

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Big Banks and Big Screens

The Motley Fool

One growth engine for both of these banks I want to chat about and I've got behind new, you'll see a cork board with some red string up. It's the wealth management of which they're seeing a huge increase in revenue, not just from a growing stock market, but also net new assets. Merrill Lynch, which is in Bank of America has $3.3

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Transcript: Dominique Mielle

The Big Picture

I wanted to see the world, and whether it was investment banking, or basket weaving really had absolutely no bearing on my decision. RITHOLTZ: It’s mutual funds. It’s hedge funds. I don’t have a genius idea to say, you know, those endowments should invest with mutual funds at 5 bps a fee.

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Blunt, unfiltered truth about Indexed Universal Life

Sara Grillo

The fair market value of the cap is what the carrier paid the investment bank to buy the 10% cap. It would be logical to look at the fair market value of what the carrier spends for the cap. As you say, Well, the fair market value of the 10% cap is what the carrier paid the investment bank to buy the 10% cap.