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Registered Rep. March 12, 2004 John Churchill |
Merrill Rewards CEO for Record Profits According to the company's 2004 proxy statement, O'Neal's massive compensation is due to the company's superior performance in 2003. Merrill tallied $4 billion in profits and improved revenue during tough market conditions. |
Registered Rep. September 5, 2002 Rick Weinberg |
While O'Neal Speaks, Rumors Fly Merrill Lynch President Stan O'Neal spoke at his firm's financial services conference about the erosion of investor confidence and restoring investor trust. But the buzz was all about a report in a German newspaper that UBS AG had made an offer for Merrill. |
Registered Rep. October 30, 2003 |
Merrill CEO: We're Hiring Stan O'Neal, chairman and chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch, says the company is accelerating its hiring of financial advisors. |
Registered Rep. October 26, 2007 David Geracioti |
O'Neal Rumored To Be On the Chopping Block Apparently Merrill Lynch has been gorging itself on risk. And, it may cost CEO Stan O'Neal his job. Merrill's shares are down by about 35% this year. |
Registered Rep. March 10, 2006 Halah Touryalai |
Stan O'Neal Meets Black Brokers; Gets Criticized for Being Sexist While Merrill Lynch executives strive to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging systemic racism on the part of the firm, when news got around that CEO Stan O'Neal, who is black, personally attended one meeting with litigants, charges of sexism abounded. |
The Motley Fool October 26, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
Quick Take: Is It Goodbye to Stan? Rumors are raging that Merrill's CEO will be ousted. So why would Stan get the boot? Well, the most obvious reason would be the massive losses that Merrill racked up in its third quarter. |
Registered Rep. October 21, 2004 Will Leitch |
Merrill's O'Neal Speaks: Some Regulatory Action Politically Motivated In a rare public appearance, Stan O'Neal, chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, took indirect aim at regulators -- and perhaps even New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in particular. |
Registered Rep. July 1, 2006 |
Merrill Eyeing Banking for Small Business Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal says the firm could purchase a consumer bank as part of a strategy to make his firm's retail brokerage operation more attractive to small business clients. |
Registered Rep. November 15, 2007 Christina Mucciolo |
Merrill Stops Squirming, Reps Have Mixed Reviews Previously, Merrill Lynch chiefs have usually been plucked from in house, and were former brokers, convivial and backslapping. By contrast, recently hired CEO John Thain is considered cerebral and not charismatic. |
Registered Rep. January 26, 2006 Kevin Burke |
Merrill Awards O'Neal $20.6 Million in Stock Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal was once again among the highest paid Wall Street executives in 2005. |
Registered Rep. October 24, 2007 John Churchill |
Merrill Earnings Ugly, But Brokerage Is The Sweet Spot Stan O'Neal opened Merrill Lynch's earnings call by not beating around the bush: The firm had a net loss of $2.3 billion, due largely in part from $7.9 billion in write-downs related to exposure to sub-prime mortgages and collateralized debt obligations. |
Registered Rep. November 5, 2007 Christina Mucciolo |
Fink offered O'Neal's post The Board of Directors of Merrill Lynch has offered the position of CEO and Chairman to BlackRock's Chairman and founder Larry Fink, according to CNBC. |
Registered Rep. September 19, 2006 John Churchill |
Merrill's O'Neal to Be Deposed for Discrimination Suit Stanley O'Neal, chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, will be deposed as part of the discovery phase in a race-discrimination suit filed by one of the firm's black brokers. |
Registered Rep. February 9, 2009 David A. Geracioti |
Registered Rep. Round Up: Madoff Settles Civil Case, O'Neal's Estate Planning Secrets Revealed The criminal proceedings for Madoff are unaffected, and resume on February 11; Stan O'Neal, the former leader of Merrill Lynch and Robert Nardelli, the CEO of Chrysler LLC, have transferred the deeds of their houses to their wives. |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
Merrill Apes Goldman ... Again Merrill Lynch will create a senior executive role responsible for all European businesses in a move that mimics Goldman Sachs' hierarchy. |
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 Maria Bartiromo |
John Thain on His New Job as CEO of Merrill Lynch John Thain talks about his appointment as CEO of Merrill Lynch. |
Registered Rep. November 14, 2007 John Churchill |
NYSE's John Thain New Merrill CEO According to reports in the online versions of the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, NYSE Euronext CEO John Thain has accepted the top spot at Merrill Lynch. |
Registered Rep. October 30, 2007 Christina Mucciolo |
O'Neal Gone: Reps Apathetic, Analysts Say Get Back To Basics If you work at Merrill, enjoy the cloak-and-dagger board room fight. In reality, things aren't so bad. The bottom line: Merrill ought to stick to what it is good at -- retail brokerage. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 |
By the Numbers CEO Pay Score Card: Merrill Lynch, Stanley O'Neal - $32 million... Goldman Sachs, Henry Paulson - $29.8 million... etc. |
Fast Company February 2009 |
CEOs Who Risk Big for Big Paydays Research shows that incentivizing CEOs with large pay and stock-option packages doesn't always have the intended effect of aligning their interests with shareholders. |
Registered Rep. June 21, 2006 Kevin Burke |
Merrill Eyeing Overseas Wealthy, Banking for Small Business Merrill Lynch, on the prowl for strategic acquisitions, may look overseas for its next purchase in an effort to bolster its wealth-management business. |
Registered Rep. June 6, 2006 Halah Touryalai |
End of Settlement Talks Bring Students to Protest Against Merrill Lynch African-American college students protested in front of several Chicago-based Merrill Lynch offices one day after settlement talks between African-American reps who claim they were discriminated against and Merrill Lynch came to an end. |
Registered Rep. September 8, 2006 Halah Touryalai |
Merrill Discrimination Suit Moves Forward After Failed Settlement Talks The racial-discrimination suit against Merrill Lynch is under way again after settlement talks between African-American brokers and the firm came to a halt in early June. |
Registered Rep. June 6, 2005 Kristen French |
Gorman's New Job at Merrill: Demotion or Promotion? The leadership change was welcomed by brokers but is unlikely to shake things up at the brokerage unit. |
BusinessWeek December 9, 2010 Devin Leonard |
How Merrill Went Into the Toilet Greg Farrell's book, Crash of the Titans, shows many Wall Street executives were preoccupied with bonuses, expense accounts, and office renovations as the subprime contagion spread |
U.S. Banker January 2003 Matthew Miller |
Making Merrill Stan O'Neal's troops weather changing of the guard |
Registered Rep. February 10, 2009 |
In First Media Interview, McCann Says Resignation Was At A "Logical Time" In his first interview since leaving Merrill Lynch, Robert J. McCann says he maintains good feelings for both Merrill Lynch and the timing of his departure. |
BusinessWeek November 5, 2007 Matthew Goldstein |
Why Merrill Got Burned So Badly Its leadership role in underwriting risky CDOs brought in millions in fees but put Merrill Lynch in the subprime bull's-eye. |
Sports Illustrated May 7, 2003 Ian Thomsen |
Moving Man? After another first-round flameout, Jermaine O'Neal may leave Indiana. |
Registered Rep. January 28, 2009 John Churchill |
The Mystery Of John Thain's Office Continues John Thain stumbles when questioned about the justification for his $1.2 million office renovation. |
BusinessWeek November 12, 2007 Der Hovanesian & Thornton |
For Prince, the Pressure Builds The swift departure of Merrill Lynch's CEO is fueling dissent against Citi's chief. |
Registered Rep. October 2, 2006 Kevin Burke |
Merrill Appoints New Board Members The financial firm announced that it has elected two new members to it board of directors, one of whom is a British human rights activist. |
CFO December 1, 2007 Kate Plourd |
The Downside of Risk Merrill Lynch didn't take CFO Jeff Edwards up on his offer to resign after the company's huge subprime hit, but he could hardly be on a slipperier slope. |
Registered Rep. September 25, 2002 Rick Weinberg |
NY Attorney General: I Could Have Nailed Merrill on More Serious Charges Eliot Spitzer said he could have pursued criminal charges against Merrill Lynch for its conflicts of interest in its research, but that he didn't want to "destroy" the firm or Wall Street. |
The Motley Fool October 25, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
A Major Stumble at Merrill Lynch In quarterly results Merrill Lynch announces its writedown will be $7.9 billion, almost twice as much as announced just last month. |
Registered Rep. October 30, 2008 |
Merrill's Retention Package: Just For White Guys? Stowell & Friedman, a Chicago-based law firm, files a suit against Merrill Lynch claiming African-American and female brokers at the firm have been largely excluded from its retention-bonus plan. |
Registered Rep. December 4, 2007 Christina Mucciolo |
Thain Recruits Colleagues in First Week at Merrill John Thain wasted no time during his first week on the job as the new head of Merrill Lynch. |
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 Goldstein & Thornton |
He Fixed the NYSE. Can He Fix Merrill? John Thain won kudos for turning around the Big Board. Now he faces a bigger challenge cleaning up the subprime mess at Merrill Lynch. |
The Motley Fool December 8, 2008 Morgan Housel |
This Wall Street CEO Earned His Pay It's easy to boo Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain for his colossal payday, but if there's one Wall Street executive who actually deserves what he's asking for, it's him. |
U.S. Banker April 2008 Karen Krebsbach |
Lost Billions in Subprime? You Need a Performance Bonus. The heads of financial-services firms' compensation committees have a lot of explaining to do for approving the lavish pay and severance packages of executives of firms that lost billions in the subprime-mortgage meltdown. |
Registered Rep. January 22, 2009 |
Thain Departs BofA--An $87,000 Rug? Say It Ain't So, John! Client AUMs Fall By 30 Percent In 2008 John Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch and the man who engineered the sales of the storied Wall Street firm to Bank of America in September, is leaving the combined firm immediately. |
The Motley Fool January 18, 2008 Matt Koppenheffer |
Why Would Anyone Be Bullish on Merrill? After dropping 50% from its 52-week high, will Merrill Lynch be able to continue as a going concern? |
The Motley Fool October 8, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
The Kids Aren't All Right, Stan Investors, did the losses at Merrill really come out of the blue? An estimated total $20 billion of losses suggests that "limited" was a severe understatement. |
Registered Rep. October 27, 2008 John Churchill |
Separate BofA Retention Package Targets Top Half of BofA force Only 50 percent, or roughly 1,000 of the 2,000 Bank of America Investment Services financial advisors, will see a retention bonus. |
Sports Central November 16, 2006 Chad Kettner |
Shaq is Back! (On the Bench) Shaq has had an amazing career, but the fact is he can no longer be considered among the elite. |
The Motley Fool October 31, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
Goldman: Superhero or Ticking Time Bomb? Goldman Sachs is 50% above its August lows and hitting new 52-week highs; will it be able to completely sidestep the problems that are clobbering its competitors? |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2002 Glenn Curtis |
Is Merrill Lynch Headed to the Altar? Despite repeated denials by UBS CEO Marcel Ospel, there is persistent speculation that the Zurich-based bank has been preparing a formal takeover bid for Merrill Lynch. However, there are hurdles, and Merrill may stick it out alone. |
Registered Rep. November 9, 2004 David A. Gaffen |
Mulholland Leaves as Co-Head of Merrill's U.S. Group Bob Mulholland, second-in-command in Merrill Lynch's brokerage unit, has surprisingly left the firm for retirement. |
Registered Rep. January 29, 2007 John Churchill |
Merrill Adds Another (Expensive) Piece Merrill Lynch announced plans to acquire First Republic Bank, a San Francisco-based private banking and wealth-management firm with $16.4 billion in assets under management, for $1.8 billion. |
The Motley Fool November 12, 2007 Bill Barker |
How to Profit From This Incredible Fiasco The lessons learned from corporate scandals and insane compensation schemes can teach you much about what you need to know to succeed in mutual fund investing. |