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With much of the global banking industry knocked off its feet lately, the steady march favored by C. Hoare & Co. offers a timely lesson in the art of financial survival. Tripped up by risky assets linked to the soured U.S. housing market, big banks have been forced to write off more than $100 billion in recent months. Denied credit, others have imploded. Sporting the colors of old-school banking, C. Hoare & Co. has sidestepped the pileup. In a time of chaos, says Sebastian Dovey, managing partner at Scorpio Partnership, a wealth-management consultancy, the 336-year-old bank "symbolizes sustainability...
...scores at their private-banking or wealth-management units. The worry, says Williams, was that "these pristine organizations were shown to be pretty sloppily run." Take UBS, the world's largest asset manager. Exposure to the U.S. mortgage market at its investment-banking unit has triggered $37 billion in write-downs over the last few months. Spooked by these signs of slack judgment, some private-banking clients have yanked their cash; shareholders have even called for the investment and private-banking units to be split. C. Hoare & Co., meanwhile, with neither an investment-banking unit nor any direct exposure...
...packed room in Emerson yesterday. Throughout his talk, Lynch, author of the best-seller One Up On Wall Street, emphasized that investors should make sure to understand the company’s background “story”. “Before you invest, you should write down three reasons why you’re buying stock,” he said. “The fact that it’s going up doesn’t count.” Lynch gained prominence in his years as the head of Fidelity Investments’ Magellan Fund...
...Those who can’t do, teach.” I suppose those who can’t do sports, write about them. I may not be a runner, but I can recognize it’s unfair that the University doesn’t care about those that can and want to run. It’s not hard to make it a holiday. There’s all the reason to do so, and no reason...
...work at Ben & Jerry’s. Unless it’s in the creative marketing strategies department. After a dispiriting bout of cover letters dispatched into internet oblivion, I contemplated applying to work on a cruise ship. But then I’d have to write a book about my experiences. Forget the demise of childhood. What happened to summer? Summer was supposed to be when you went to the beach and caught up on your reading. Now if you don’t have a job lined up, you feel like a malingerer. Yet this is only...