Editor-in-Chief Janet Levaux has covered the financial markets since 1991, with a focus on financial advisors since 2005. After graduating from Yale and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where she studied global economics, Janet worked as a freelance financial and business writer in Japan, and then as a reporter and editor for Investor's Business Daily and the Bay Area News Group in California. She earned an MBA in 2007 and since then has helped lead key ThinkAdvisor projects like its Neal-Award winning reporting on Ken Fisher, Luminaries awards program and Women in Wealth newsletter.
January 09, 2017 | National Law Journal
Wells Fargo Reaches $35M Racial-Bias Settlement With AdvisorsA $35.5 million settlement between Wells Fargo & Co. and a group of African-American brokers is set to go before a Chicago federal judge on Jan. 24. The plaintiffs alleged in the complaint, filed in 2013 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, that Wells Fargo "substantially" underpaid African-American financial advisors in management and executive positions.
By Janet Levaux
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August 17, 2015 | ThinkAdvisor
Investors Exit Active Funds to Tune of $159B Over Past Year: MorningstarMorningstar reports $14.3 billion exited U.S. equity mutual funds and ETFs in July, but J.P. Morgan, American Funds buck active trend.
By Janet Levaux
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