Category: Taking Stock
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NYSE outage; If I had a dollar and an hour
In the past, when a manager would assign me a task I would ask them a hypothetical question, “If I only had one dollar and one hour, how much of […] Read More
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Protecting our Student Interns
In order for our industry to compete on a global scale it needs to attract and retain the brightest minds of every generation. Ensuring that a young person’s first experience […] Read More
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Advice to Summer Interns: Own the Lunch Print
Spring semester for college and graduate students ended a few weeks ago, which means thousands of our nation’s brightest minds will begin their summer internships. These young adults will have […] Read More
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To Wall Street’s Moms
by Jim Toes On behalf of the STA Board of Governors we would like to wish all Wall Street’s moms, those working today and those who once did, a Happy […] Read More
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Generating alpha through….ethics.
By Joseph Holt Management Professor, Mendoza College of Business The University of Notre Dame Just as parents have to decide what message to send to their children when it comes […] Read More
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Do you remember your first?
by Jim Toes I do. I was 23 years old and the company was Greenfield Financial which I purchased for $0.04c per share and sold for 3 zeros and a […] Read More
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Yes, we censored the survey results.
by Jim Toes At or around the time when Mark Zuckerberg was in elementary school, someone within Merrill Lynch’s HR Department had an “out-of-the-box” idea to make anonymous surveys part […] Read More
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How much can you save?
by Jim Toes No matter what industry you work in, the need to save a portion of your income is important. If you work in the financial services sector where […] Read More
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Happy Birthday, Elvis Presley
by Jim Toes I have family in Memphis so “the King” has always held a special place in my life. So much so, that Blue Christmas plays all year round […] Read More
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“That’s not a knife, it’s a duck.”
by Jim Toes In the movie “Lone Survivor” there is a painfully stressful scene where Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell tries desperately to communicate to a young Afghani boy that he […] Read More