Tag Archives: Financial services


Thomas J. Powell – Reasonable Regulation: That’s Allstate’s Stand

Reasonable Regulation: That’s Allstate’s Stand             Many companies involved in financial services cower when an official of any stature mentions the threat of national regulation, but Allstate has decided to embrace it. Since late April, Allstate has been pushing an advertising campaign that is rooted in support for creating a national regulation agency for all players in the financial industry, […]

Fund of Hedge Funds: Top 50

Philippa Aylmer, contributing editor to The Hedge Fund Journal, writes, “If the last decade could be described as the biggest credit party ever, then the end of 2008 brought the mother of all hangovers. The hedge fund industry took a beating along with much else in the financial services sector and funds of hedge funds felt their share of the […]

President’s Budget Proposals

By Steven M. Etkind and Roger D. Lorence The Treasury Department has released its lengthy explanation of the President’s wide-ranging tax proposals.  The President aims to deliver on both tax “fairness,” especially the ending of perceived tax abuses and “loopholes,” and increasing federal tax revenues.  Particularly hard hit would be U.S. businesses with operations outside the U.S. and the financial […]