| | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Every actor dreams of extreme success, but there is also a downside: That you will forever be known as the character you played. | |
| The question could become important if the financial services industry wins its high-stakes legal and political battles to dismantle the federal fiduciary rule governing advice to retirement investors. | |
| BOSTON (Reuters) - Activist investor Barington Capital Group LP launched a fight for two board seats at machine industry company Xerium Technologies Inc., according to a regulatory filing made on Thursday. | |
| (Reuters) - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview. | |
| BOSTON (Reuters) - Folger Hill Asset Management, a hedge fund run by former SAC Capital Advisors LP executive Sol Kumin, will merge with Schonfeld Strategic Advisors after a period of sluggish returns. | |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - A cute Maltipoo puppy could never harm anyone, right? | |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Loomis Sayles vice chairman Dan Fuss says the 10-year Treasury yield could go "north of 4 percent" within two years, but geopolitical risks and economic deterioration could keep yields lower. | |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Financial firms representing more than $1 trillion in assets under management have endorsed a U.S. regulator's plan to test limiting the rebates and other incentives that stock exchanges can pay to brokers, a practice critics say creates conflicts of interest. | |
| (Reuters) - A fund industry trade group representative on Monday disputed the idea that bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) might fail to hold up under stress, telling U.S. securities regulators he knows of no convincing evidence to suggest such funds' liquidity is a problem. | |
| BOSTON (Reuters) - Proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services on Friday recommended investors vote against a stock plan for employees at Goldman Sachs Group Inc, concerned about its costs and the bank's heavy use of stock-based compensation. | |
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