Month: October 2019

Goldman Sachs has joined the flight of institutional investors from Fisher Investments. The giant investment bank is pulling $234 million from Camas, Washington-based Fisher, according to a source close to the matter. However, the end tally could be even greater, a source told CNBC. Goldman Sachs and Fisher Investments both declined to comment. In all,
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Our healthcare landlord Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI) is officially back. This 6% dividend has upside once again. We are about to receive our first payout raise since early 2018, which ends our seven-quarter drought in which the big dividend was paid but not raised. I say “drought” partially in jest because OHI yielded a fat
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Century Plaza dbox “Nobody walks in L.A.” This has been the city’s mantra for decades, but a $2.5 billion large scale development is on track to bring nearly six acres of pedestrian-friendly mixed-use space to a neighborhood largely known for its skyscrapers, office buildings and the filming lots of Fox Studios. Such a high-profile redevelopment
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Tesla’s stock is set to pop big when trading begins on Thursday, after the electric automaker turned in an unexpectedly profitably third-quarter and better than anticipated progress toward getting its Shanghai factory operational. “Skeptics had legitimate concerns in the past, but Tesla is now building cash, winning market share, and boosting margins – all while
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The Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension System voted on Thursday to fire Fisher Investments, pulling about $522 million from the money manager. The nine-member board of commissioners voted in favor of terminating the relationship with the Camas, Washington-based firm, following lewd comments Ken Fisher had made at an investment conference on Oct. 8. The
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Thanks to the financial rewards offered by the SEC, CFTC, DOJ, IRS and other whistleblower programs, trustees and pension boards today—for the first time—have a fiduciary obligation to report wrongdoing to regulators and law enforcement. If they don’t, they may be shortchanging beneficiaries and participants.   It is well settled law that trustees, pension boards
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The robots are coming for the tax planners, but from what I can see, we will probably last longer than the truck drivers. This is my tentative conclusion from poking around with Blue J Legal’s Tax Foresight. I spoke with CEO Ben Alarie about the company and the product. Then he had his team give
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A sign is posted outside of the PayPal headquarters in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images PayPal had a break-out quarter, sending its stock surging after reporting earnings. The payments company beat Wall Street’s estimates across the board for the third-quarter results Wednesday evening. Investors applauded the outperformance, sending PayPal shares up more
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Virgin Galactic spacecraft Unity fires its engine and heads to space with its first test passenger on board in February 2019. Virgin Galactic | gif by @thesheetztweetz Private space tourism is about to go public. Shareholders approved Virgin Galactic’s merger with venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya’s special purpose vehicle on Wednesday, according to SEC filings, setting
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