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Ivan Boesky

  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Obituary
    Ivan Boesky, convicted trader, 1937-2024

    Arbitrageur came to fame as a mergers expert but his scandal helped define Wall Street excess

    Ivan Boesky, centre, leaves federal court in New York on April 24, 1987 after pleading guilty to one count of violating federal securities laws
  • Tuesday, 4 October, 2016
    US & Canadian companies
    Supreme Court tackles insider trading law

    Case focuses on whether the tipster gained something of value in return for disclosures

    Radiolab's new podcast series looks at the death penalty and the workings of the US Supreme Court
  • Friday, 18 September, 2015
    Impact investing
    Are good works started to atone for sins?

    It is tempting to view UBS’s launch of a poverty fund as atonement for . . . sins

    Risk arbitrageur Ivan Boesky working phones (one to each ear) in office
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2013
    US & Canadian companies
    Will banks be safer if the London whale gets harpooned?

    The JPMorgan Chase indictments risk inducing a false sense of security, writes Mark Roe

    An image of the JPMorgan Chase building in New York, USA
  • Friday, 15 March, 2013
    US & Canadian companies
    SAC tops list of insider trading pacts
  • Sunday, 20 November, 2011
    LexRetail & Consumer industry
    Congress insiders: sharp practice

    Legislators can get away with trading on or passing along market-moving data

  • Friday, 1 July, 2011
    On Wall StreetUS equities
    Kraft move may signal return of the corporate raider

    Trian takes stake in one of Wall Street’s ‘untouchables’

  • Sunday, 15 May, 2011
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    The walls have ears

    Insider trading: After the Raj Rajaratnam case, illicit information will be swapped by other means

  • Wednesday, 2 March, 2011
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Insider trading: Brought to court

    As authorities take ever sterner action on illicitly obtained information, in their sights are not just one-off tips but networks of professionals, write Kara Scannell and Brooke Masters

  • Friday, 17 December, 2010
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    Picower left legacy of praise and scrutiny
  • Friday, 19 November, 2010
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Dealings
  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2010
    US & Canadian companies
    Morgan Stanley lawyer to step down
  • Saturday, 12 December, 2009
    ObituaryInvestment Banking
    Drexel chief whose geniality outlived a junk-bond bungle
  • Friday, 20 November, 2009
    On Wall StreetUS equities
    Pinstripe and prison stripe
  • Friday, 23 October, 2009
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Galleon’s reach

    Case causes shock far beyond the financial world

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2009
    Financial services
    Case seen as wake-up call to Wall St
  • Monday, 19 October, 2009
    FT AlphavilleGwen Robinson
    Rajaratnam alert: Be afraid, be very afraid?
  • Sunday, 18 October, 2009
    US & Canadian companies
    Hedge fund managers step up internal regulation
  • Friday, 1 May, 2009
    FT AlphavilleStacy-Marie Ishmael
    Untangling floor 17, 650 5th Avenue
  • Tuesday, 9 September, 2008
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    Brooklyn outpost takes on white-collar criminals
  • Thursday, 5 June, 2008
    FT AlphavilleGwen Robinson
    SEC warns on ‘return of the Boesky era’
  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2008
    Global Economy
    Watchdog alert over return of insider trading
  • Wednesday, 16 February, 2005
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Mudlark: Fortune telling, JPMorgan-style
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