  | | | | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Some eight years ago, I was at a presentation by Vanguard founder Jack Bogle at a business journalists' conference in Denver, and when his PowerPoint crashed, and he had to use transparencies on a vintage 20th-century overheard projector. After the presentation, he let me keep them, and they still serve as a sort of Rosetta Stone for me for enlightened investing. | | | | | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Incoming U.S. college students have never seen a paper airline ticket, like to watch television on almost anything but a television and consider exposed bra straps a fashion statement, not a wardrobe malfunction, according to an annual list released on Tuesday. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Jody Phillips thought she had found the perfect mover for her relocation from Tennessee to Utah. The company's slick site, boasting of its awards for service and photos of its sharp-looking moving truck helped clinch the deal. She then paid them an initial fee of nearly $1,200. | | | | | | (The writer is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own.) | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - An academics' pension fund, the Church of Sweden and a biomedical charity are among conservative investors breaking with tradition and piling into hedge funds who are willing to curb their highest-risk bets to attract their cash. | | | |  | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc will terminate $8.25 billion in credit default swap protection it has sold on municipal debt, more than half of a total $16 billion in protection it has sold on bonds of states, cities and towns, the company said in a regulatory filing this month. | | | |  | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Another JPMorgan Chase & Co risk manager, who worked for a division that lost at least $5.8 billion on a series of complex derivatives trades, has hired a lawyer in connection with probes into the so-called "London Whale" trading debacle, according to sources familiar with the investigations. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - State securities regulators have put the relatively new investment phenomenon of crowdfunding at the top of their annual investment scams list, highlighting a recent controversial U.S. law that relaxed capital raising rules on small companies. | | | | | (Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission has delayed for a week its consideration of new rules to lift the ban on general advertising for private securities offerings, the regulator said on Tuesday. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, the largest U.S. brokerage, has landed seven veteran advisers who managed about $1 billion in client assets for rival firms, further expanding its U.S. adviser base. | | | | |  |  | | | 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 | |
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