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Restore the Uptick Rule, Restore Confidence
By Charles R. Schwab, Wall Street Journal, December 9, 2008
How the Credit Crisis Will Change the Way America Does Business Don't Panic Hedge Funds, Systemic Risk, and the Financial Crisis of 2007–2008
By Henry Kaufman, Wall Street Journal, December 6, 2008
By Richard Champion, posted on Albourne Village, December 4, 2008 (Site requires free registration.)
Written Testimony of Andrew W. Lo, Prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, November 13, 2008 Hearing on Hedge Funds.
Time To Lift The Veil
By Viral V. Acharya and Marti G. Subrahmanyam, published on www.Forbes.com, November 13, 2008
Is Now the Time to Buy Stocks? Here is what the historical evidence suggests
By John H. Cochrane, Wall Street Journal, November 12, 2008 (Available for subscribers.)
Human frailty caused this crisis
By Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, published on FT.com, November 11, 2008
Treasury Considers Private Role in TARP
By Deborah Solomon, Wall Street Journal, November 6, 2008 (Available for subscribers.)
The Financial Crisis and Private Defined Benefit Plans
By Alicia H. Munnell, Jean-Pierre Aubry, and Dan Muldoon, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
The Father of Portfolio Theory on the Crisis
By L. Gordon Crovita, Wall Street Journal, November 3, 2008
Calling Harry Markowitz
By Mark Bruno, Financial Week, November 2, 2008
Think bigger on swaps, federal regulators urged
By Neil Roland, published on FT.com, November 2, 2008
Talking Investors Down Off the Ledge: How to Respond to Common Investor Behavior in Times of Market Turbulence
By Scott D. Welch, CIMA®, Fortigent, October 2008
U.S. endowments grow wary but see opportunities
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss, Reuters, October 23, 2008
SEC Protecting Investors, Markets During Credit Crisis
Liquidity and lending rates are crucial to confidence
By Jeremy Siegel, published on FT.com, October 20, 2008 (This Web site requires free registration to access the article.)
Push Is on for Regulatory Overhaul: Lawmakers, Think Tanks Contemplate Sweeping Change"
By Michael S. Rosenwald and David Cho, Washington Post, October 16, 2008, Page D01
Europe wins backing for global finance revamp
By Francois Murphy and Darren Ennis, Reuters, October 15, 2008
Where are we, and what comes next? A lengthy recession seems likely, but not depression
By Linda A. Duessel, Federated Investors Inc., October 14, 2008
A Decrepit Decade Just Keeps Getting Worse
By Ron Surz, October 6, 2008
How institutions manage counter-party risk
By Stephen Horan, published on FT.com, October 5, 2008
(This Web site requires free registration to access the article.)
What do we do now? The chaos penalizing asset class risk brings opportunity but also a catch
By Mark Anson, published in Pensions & Investments, September 29, 2008
Municipal Market Update – Volatility & Opportunity
By Chip Norton, Managing Director of Fixed Income & Economic Analysis, Fortigent, September 25, 2008
Dan Richards, president of Strategic Imperatives! and author of Getting Clients/Keeping Clients: The Essential Guide for Tomorrow's Financial Advisor
Click here to access several model letters that Dan Richards has developed to help address client concerns with market conditions.
Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC)
Click here to learn about the role of the SIPC, what it covers and what it does not, what you need to know about SIPC, and questions that investors ask most often about avoiding investment fraud.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Click here for information and resources on the U.S. banking industry on the FDIC Web site.
