Tonight the BC Club of Atlanta hosted a cocktail party with Matt Ryan and Gene DeFilippo. Thanks to the Alumni office for coordinating the details and our local chapter president Kyla Perfetuo. Big congrats to BC Mike for being the driving force behind the event and for giving Gene a very nice intro...

As Madoff pleads guity to one of the biggest scams in history, I want to point out an impact of his criminal activity that many may not appreciate. This sleaze's crimes are really far, far worse than any street criminal whose crimes may hurt some immediate victims because Madoff's crimes hurts many,...

In a city often under fire from Gaza, playing outdoors is unsafe, so a Jewish fund builds a recreation center in a bunker....

Taylor Stein, the mother of ex-Estée Lauder CEO William Lauder's love child, is going to court to get him to pay a $9.5 million settlement he agreed to in exchange for her silence. On February 17, Stein's lawyer, Ed Hayes, filed a petition with a New York court which oversees trust funds, seeking t...

One U2 story you didn't read in the Boston papers this morning amid all the hype over the band's visit to promote "No Line On The Horizon": Turns out that horizon is in the Netherlands. TheWrap.com reports that many folks back in Ireland are supremely pissed off at U2 for moving th...

There is no money, recession has struck everyone badly but, there is not stopping adults from playing around in the lustrous, lustful, and what not adult networks. Recently AdultSpace got a massive dose of funding, bagging in $1.3 million. The plan is to invade the adult market and take over Adult F...

Yet again a cash now pusher has tried to factor a structured settlement annuity owned by the United States of America and someone has pissed on its leg. This time it's the United States District Court for the District of Kansas ordering summary judgment for the United States on March 10, 2009 in an ...

If you need a scapegoat for your financial ponzi scheme, there's a guy on Craigslist who's looking for a job: Is your hedge fund in dire financial straits? Are you totally screwed and now realizing that someone has to take the fall? Has your ponzi scheme enveloped numerous celebrity-endorsed chariti...

I got a phone call telling me I got accepted to grad school. Trying to work out funding options before the package gets here and whether it's worth it (sorta complicated situation, details inside). Help? Okay, so I applied to one school-- the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. A bit atypical, but I...

The secondary market may be stalled until year-end numbers are out, but that hasn’t dampened interest in the asset class. Aside from firms starting new secondary intermediary practices left and right, many of the largest legacy buyers are in the market with new funds. Notably, one (Landmark) is ra...