Reuters Money: You've been offered shares. Now what?

Click to View in Browser 05/4/2012 You've been offered shares. Now what? NEW YORK (Reuters) - Whenever Manhattan attorney Ted Scofield gets offered equity in a start-up, he feels like he's been thrown into the middle of a high-stakes Las Vegas poker game. Wells Fargo increases mortgage dominance (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co made a record 33.9 percent of U.S. mortgage loans in the first quarter, as rivals such as Bank of America Corp continued to pull back in the home lending market. Chesapeake and the executive pay sell signal (Reuters) - As Chesapeake Energy Corp shows, fat executive compensation all too often comes twinned with lousy investor returns. When should workers take a pension buyout? CHICAGO (Reuters) - Ford Motor Company is making an offer it hopes 90,000 former employees can't refuse: a lump sum buyout of their pensions. Weighing the what-ifs of trusts and LLCs NEW YORK (Reuters) - If you own real estate of any kind, you've got an asset that needs to be protected - and not just against wind and rain. A European dividend strategy NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lured by a combination of cheap prices and high dividend yields, some money managers are finding opportunities in Europe's drawn-out financial crisis. Hugh Hendry predicts crisis will spread to Asia LONDON (Reuters) - Hugh Hendry, one of the hedge fund industry's most outspoken managers, has warned that the economic crisis is headed for Asia, with the region's largest economy, China, struggling under a bursting property bubble and tumbling demand for its exports. ETF controversy puts online brokers in odd spot NEW YORK (Reuters) - The recent controversy over leveraged and inverse exchange-traded products has put self-directed brokerage firms, like Charles Schwab Corp, Fidelity Investments and TD Ameritrade in a awkward position. U.S. Treasury starts thinking like a company WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, May 2 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Kudos to the U.S. Treasury for starting to think about Uncle Sam's funding needs like a major company would. The nation's borrower is showing more interest in switching some of its funding to floating-rate debt. That's a smart idea - it may be all it can sell as interest rates rise. But Treasury needs to tread carefully. Can portfolio theory save lives? NEW YORK (Reuters) - With U.S. biomedical research under assault by everyone from patients to Congress for turning so few scientific discoveries into treatments, a leading finance expert says decisions about what studies to bankroll should be made the same way pension funds, mutual funds, and university endowments decide how to invest their money. Related Video Fun ways to make tax refunds count Consumers seek frugal upgrades to their homes Business News Wall Street opens lower after jobs report U.S. April hiring slows, jobless rate falls to 8.1 percent The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today   A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today   » MORE NEWSLETTERS - 3 Times Square New York, NY 10036 USA © Copyright 2010 Thomson Reuters Ensure delivery of Reuters Newsmails, add mail@nl.reuters.com to your address book. Details Subscribe to other Reuters newsletters. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Forward to a friend