Previous Success for Witness in Mets Case 
The whistleblower in the 2003 mutual fund market-timing scandal reappears on the witness list for the Mets-Madoff trial. Includes comment from Eliot Spitzer.
Mary Pilon
is New York-based sports reporter at The New York Times and is writing a book about the history of Monopoly.
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Light and I report in Weekend Investor!
"We're in a Recession Right Now" -- Jeffrey Gundlach
Discussions of the economy over chicken at the New York Yacht Club.
Live From LA, A Dispatch From the Gundlach-TCW Trial
Because how often do two money managers sue each other and the reporter gets to make Barbie and fast food references?
WTF? A Money-Market ETF?? OMG!
New report from McKinsey!
Another day, another batch of fund allegations!
U.S. Regulators Worried About U.S. Money Fund Exposure to Europe
On C1 today, Jon Hilsenrath and I look at what’s going on with money-market funds, Europe and Washington.
OMG and WTF! 401(k) + ETF = SCHW
Let’s try and put that into English for those of you who haven’t been having as much fun with fund reports, spreadsheets and SEC comment letters as I have. (Whee!)
On Wednesday’s C1, I report on Charles Schwab’s new 401(k) initiative. So 401(k)s are what we put retirement money into. (Or try to, at least.) But what we invest them has long been an area of contention. Do we invest in actively-managed mutual funds? Or index funds? Shove it all in a mattress? OR…as Schwab is proposing…do we invest them in exchange-traded funds, or ETFs? (For more background on these newbies, good primer material here.)
ETFs are new. With that comes innovation and controversy. And what happens when we put that into the hands of ma and pa investors? Only time will tell.
And yes, “McCool” is his real last name.
From my profile on B1 of T. Rowe Price portfolio manager Henry Ellenbogen:
In 1992, when he was just 19, Mr. Ellenbogen took a leave of absence from Harvard College to be chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Peter Deutsch (D.-Fla.) and managed 17 people…
That’s right, people. You’ve done nothing with your lives.
Because academic research on mutual funds can be literary, too!
