The online brokerage's chief executive comes fresh from a job where he was in charge of selling off Citigroup assets. Will he be looking to do the same in his new position?
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The securities-industry regulator could use some glamming up. One suggestion calls for restyling the agency in the mode of the U.S. Foreign Service. And maybe ban all those polyester suits.
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As financial reforms call for heightened oversight for insurance companies, experience in Washington, D.C., is likely to become a resume asset for industry pros for the first time.
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New York-based AXA Financial Inc. is parent to insurer AXA Equitable Life Insurance Co. and investment manager AllianceBernstein Holding LP. It's a subsidiary of the Paris-based insurance giant AXA SA.