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Legg focused on reversing fund withdrawals
Legg Mason Inc. has bounced back from the worst of the financial crisis by many counts. The Baltimore financial powerhouse has cleaned up its balance sheet without government help, returned to profitability and initiated a major cost-cutting program to...Tags: Financial Markets, Finance, Wells Fargo & Co., Personal Finance, Bill Miller
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CEOs paid more even as profits fall
Chief executives of public companies have long had a ready answer when criticized about high pay: It's all about company performance.
That argument has been put to the test by the toughest financial environment since the Great Depression. If...Tags: Constellation Energy Group, Finance, Interior Policy, Wages and Pensions, W.R. Grace & Co.
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O'Malley appoints Fry to head slots vetting
A commission that will dole out lucrative slots licenses in Maryland will be headed by the leader of a business advocacy group chosen by Gov. Martin O'Malley after two prominent university leaders declined interest in the unpaid assignment, according to...Tags: Cordish Cos., Constellation Energy Group, University of Maryland, College Park, Justice System, Casino and Gambling Industry
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Mason holds $830 billion of investors' money in his hands
Sun National StaffAfter the conference call to his employees, after he briefed the stock analysts and the media and watched Wall Street exult over the prospect of Legg Mason Inc. morphing into the world's fifth-largest money manager, Raymond A. "Chip" Mason sat down and...Tags: Financial Services, Finance, Financial and Business Services, Colleges and Universities, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Legg promises its customers a smooth switch
Sun StaffLegg Mason Inc. promises its customers a smooth transition when the Baltimore company swaps businesses with Citigroup Inc. and analysts predict those investors may even see lower fees as a result of the $3.7 billion deal announced yesterday. Legg Mason...Tags: Citigroup Incorporated, Morningstar Incorporated, Mutual Funds, Finance, Stock Broking
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Legg CEO says deal with Citi is on track
sun reporterThe chairman and chief executive officer of Legg Mason Inc. told investors and analysts yesterday that the Baltimore firm is making "dramatic progress" toward completing its deal with Citigroup Inc. that would double the assets it manages for clients....Tags: NYSE Euronext, Inc., Citigroup Incorporated, Mutual Funds, Finance, Stock Broking
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Legg's capital markets unit sold
Sun StaffStifel Financial Corp. has agreed to buy Legg Mason's investment banking, research and trading operations, which Citigroup Inc. had inherited as part of a separate deal. Nearly 500 Legg Mason Inc. employees will join Stifel, which has its headquarters in...Tags: Citigroup Incorporated, Wachovia Corp., Finance, Contracts, Stock Broking
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Legg's brokers wooed in swap
Sun StaffTop brokers at Legg Mason Inc. are facing a seemingly enviable predicament: Change their business cards to Smith Barney and get cash and stock worth at least $1 million, or take their clients to some other brokerage for as much as twice that amount. As...Tags: Public Employees, Trips and Vacations, Business Trips, Morningstar Incorporated, Finance
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Legg Mason, Citigroup agree to swap business
Sun StaffLegg Mason Inc. agreed yesterday to trade its brokerage unit for the money management business of financial giant Citigroup Inc. in a $3.7 billion deal that transforms the Baltimore-based firm from a regional player into the world's fifth-largest money...Tags: NYSE Euronext, Inc., Morningstar Incorporated, Finance, Family, Personal Finance
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Mutual-fund reform played role in deal
Sun StaffNeither was at the negotiating table, but New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and retiring Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William H. Donaldson played a supporting role in Legg Mason Inc.'s $3.7 billion deal to swap businesses with...Tags: Investment Service, American Express Company, Morningstar Incorporated, Justice System, Finance
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Legg, Citi wrestle with the rumors
Sun StaffOne can imagine tense, closed-door negotiations between a small cadre of Legg Mason Inc. and Citigroup Inc. executives, hunched over calculators and paperwork, trying to decide how the companies would swap parts of their businesses. But that's just it...Tags: Public Relations, Finance, Financial and Business Services, SBC Communications Incorporated, Personal Finance
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![Legg Mason Chairman and CEO Raymond A. "Chip" Mason](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/photo/2001-07/375040.jpg "Legg Mason Chairman and CEO Raymond A. "Chip" Mason")
