At 78, L. Gene Tanner is one of the longest-serving investment advisers working in Indianapolis. Tanner spoke with IBJ's Norm Heikens about why he shifted to City Securities, his brush with convicted Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff, and how his investment strategy has changed.
Experts are split over whether runup in precious metal is a classic bubble.
Benchmarking has exploded with the industry’s propensity to slice and dice and categorize every segment of the overall investment pie.
I’ve noticed a growing number of experts who are confused and confounded by the rising stock market. They refuse to believe what their eyes are telling them…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing significant changes to the structure of the annual marketing or distribution fee on mutual funds known as a 12(b)-1 fee.
Unfortunately, if BH thought it was breaking ground in the field of executive compensation with this plan, it has fallen short.
L. Gene Tanner has left PNC Investments to join City Securities Corp. The veteran stockbroker who began his career with the former Raffensperger Hughes firm in 1958 said he has returned to familiar territory.
All this doom and gloom—it’s too much. The negativity and bearishness are way overdone.
I went back to ancient Greece and Rome and found long-running philosophical discussions about The Virtues.
A recent report from the consulting and research firm McKinsey & Co. detailed the propensity for investment firm analysts to repeatedly issue excessively optimistic earnings forecasts.
Kelley School of Business Dean Dan Smith said a $100,000 donation from two IU alumni will provide a hands-on learning opportunity
for students.
I continue to believe the April 23 high was not the end of the bull market that began in March 2009.
School officials expect the 1,300-square-foot Center for Capital Markets and Investing to become a major hub at the college
by creating an atmosphere that closely simulates Wall Street.
Dorothy Geisler-Tragardh, who had been a partner in a clean-coal energy company called Praxis Resource Partners LLC, was accused
of running a stock-sale scheme in which she took nearly $2 million from investors.
The greatest investors I know all use time-tested principles and apply them rigorously in their activities.
The unprecedented size of government in America matters to anyone who is concerned about wealth creation in this country.
To achieve outsized returns, whether in mutual funds or individual stocks, investors must avoid the hype and reliance on past outperformance.
Another fact emerged during May. People became way too bearish. Surveys and market action both suggested a growing fear that
became almost everyone’s opinion.
The financial underpinnings for the current quarterly dividend—45.5 cents per share—seem less than sturdy.
for decades, politicians have regularly boosted public pension benefits to score election gains, while neglecting the long-term costs to municipal budgets. Now the bills are coming due.
