Arthur Levitt
Arthur Levitt
Arthur Levitt Jr.was the twenty-fifth and longest-serving Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commissionfrom 1993 to 2001. Widely hailed as a champion of the individual investor, he has been criticized for not pushing for tougher accounting rules. Since May 2001 he has been employed as a senior adviser at the Carlyle Group. Levitt previously served as a policy advisor to Goldman Sachs and is a Director of Bloomberg LP, parent of Bloomberg News...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth3 February 1931
CountryUnited States of America
We have an opportunity today that we may not have again in our lifetime, to realize the vision for a true national market system,
We are not looking for a bit of window dressing on the same old recycled gobbledygook, ... We expect you to do whatever it takes to speak to investors in a language they understand -- English.
The SEC is launching more investigations into more big companies than ever before, ... The list of targets includes plenty of Fortune 500 players, including Bankers Trust, Cendant, Waste Management and W. R. Grace.
he said. ''I would hope the decision would be reversed upon appeal.
Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.
If you compensate a CEO by giving him options, he's going to do everything he can to make those options as valuable as possible.
While private equity will remain technically private, its actions will become the public's concern.
The best companies, the most solidly managed companies, are ones that are managed for the future that don't focus on the price of the shares.
Taxes are one of the most significant costs of investing in mutual funds,
a way to gain and maintain favor with particular analysts.
Bad deals have led to some titanic failures for shareholders.
do whatever was possible to expedite the process.
It is time for the U.S. securities market to make this change,
They have been compared to a high-tech version of morning gossip or advice at the company water cooler, ... At least you knew your co-workers at the water cooler.