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Yesterday, Apple held its annual shareholder meeting. One of the hot topics discussed in this meeting was Apple's massive, almost $100 billion, cash reserve. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook reiterated that the tech giant is still exploring its options for putting this cash to work and that paying a...

The Opening Belles (and Joe)! This past Saturday, Brighton Securities participated in the 13th Annual Wayne County Rotary Spelling Bee. Marge Geyer, Danielle Wilkins and Joe Boyd were the members of our team, The Opening Belles and Joe! This was our fourth year participating in the Spelling Bee....

Investors presumably choose fixed-income strategies in an effort to help guarantee safety in exchange for upside gains. If that safety is deemed arbitrary--if a central bank is able to subordinate other investors of that very same security--then that, my friends, is a default regardless of snazzy se...

Last week the Federal Open Market Committee, the part of The Fed that acts in investment markets to execute monetary policy, released the minutes of their most recent meeting. According to Bloomberg, the participants were divided on key issues. While the Fed noted improved economic data, they are in...

We've had thousands of people asking us questions about KRIP. Mostly, these questions are some form of 'is my pension safe during Kodak's bankruptcy?' In this spirit, here are 5 things to know about KRIP: The Pension is Funded. Pension funding is given by Kodak to a trust. The trust is a separ...

Last October an Ohio company, Collins Ink, made local headlines by halting shipments of its product to Kodak, citing concern about the impact to Collins of a Kodak bankruptcy. After a quick trip to Federal court, Collins and Kodak agreed to resume their relationship and Collins dropped from the head...

Information cycles as Kodak moves through bankruptcy can drive us all a little wild with frustration and anxiety. Trying to understand what will happen with Kodak is like walking through an oddly mercurial landscape that switches instantly from a desert to a lush valley and back again. We get no inf...

We've spoken with thousands of Kodak employees and retirees over the past month. In an effort to continue to be a source of useful information, expertise and opinion, we are starting a Kodak blog series today that will continue until there is nothing left to say about Kodak's bankruptcy. The firs...

As we blogged about yesterday, Kodak is in bankruptcy court today where a good amount of information about what this bankruptcy will be like ought to be revealed. The hearing began at 11:00 a.m. and the first news coming out today has been about Apple's request of the court to go forward with patent...

"Risk means more things can happen than will happen." - Elroy Dimson "Investing consists of exactly one thing : dealing with the future. And because none of us can know the future with certainty, risk is inescapable. Thus, dealing with risk is an essential-I think the essential-element in investi...