Last year, Anthony Orso, Michael Lehrman and Steve Kantor departed longtime positions at Credit Suisse to help build Cantor Fitzgerald’s ambitious commercial real estate practice, Cantor Commercial Real Estate. As executive managing director and chief executive, Mr. Orso, 47, is at the helm of the new platform, which was first announced earlier this month.
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In addition to the usual financial services–bond trading, brokerage, investment banking, private equity, and so on–Cantor Fitzgerald is now offering you the chance to bet on your favorite films.
“People love movies, and this is a way for them to profit from what they know,” Melanie Gordon-Felsman, a Cantor spokesperson, told Reuters. “Let’s Read More
Dan Barry’s story in the Times today about writings by a victim of 9/11 that her North Dakota family only discovered in the last two months, having put off looking in her laptop as long as they could, was a sad and moving piece, the kind readers gravitate to before they have to swallow Read More
On June 26, CNBC reporter Mike Huckman had no trouble finding ousted Salomon Smith Barney telecom analyst Jack Grubman outside his Upper East Side townhouse to ask him whether his downgrade of WorldCom stock had anything to do with rumors of fraud at the company.
Mr. Grubman said it was purely a coincidence, and then Read More
May 29 – June 5, 2002
Wednesday 29th
MoMA vs. SOFA: It’s a pitched battle of the acronymed arts organizations tonight as the Sculpture
Objects & Functional Art’s opening-night preview gala summons everything it can muster against the Museum of Modern Art’s famous, tinkly Party in the Garden . Under normal circumstances,we’d be plumping Read More
The days of man are as grass
He flourishes as a flower in the field
The wind passes over it and it is gone
And no one can recognize where it grew.
Reading these words in the Yom Kippur service last week, a great chill came over me. The thought is hardly new. Most Read More
