Andy Serwer

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Editor at Large at Barron's

Editor at Large, Barron's. Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted. West coast jazz. East coast rap.

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Private Markets Are Crowding Out Public Markets. Where’s the SEC?

3 weeks ago | barrons.com | Andy Serwer

“It is a new day at the SEC,” declared the new Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins in Senate testimony on Tuesday, and then presumably to underscore the point, he concluded by asserting, “It is a new and brighter day for the SEC.”
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan on What Makes the U.S. ‘Fundamentally Strong’

4 weeks ago | barrons.com | Andy Serwer

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan doesn’t let the day-to-day rattle him, which serves him well—especially as capital markets have been buffeted by unprecedented change and uncertainty coming from Washington, D.C.
Yale, Harvard University Endowments Are Breaking Up With Private Equity

1 month ago | barrons.com | Andy Serwer |Abby Schultz

University Endowments Are Breaking Up With Private Equity. It’s Hard to Do.It once seemed like the perfect investment—offering better returns than stocks with less risk. Lately, though, private equity has become an albatross. Legendary Yale University endowment head David Swensen loved to riff on Benjamin Franklin’s line about life’s only certainties being death and taxes.
Universities Are in Tumult. Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan and Apollo Global’s Marc Rowan Weigh In.

1 month ago | barrons.com | Andy Serwer

To scholastic purists, business leaders and big donors intruding into the ivy-covered, ivory tower of academia is a modern-day outrage—but the mixing of commercial interests and universities is nothing new. The fact that institutions such as Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, Rice, and Stanford were named after their wealthy benefactors just begins to get at the depth and breadth of those relationships.
Global Payments Hopes Its New Platform Makes the Market a Believer

1 month ago | barrons.com | Andy Serwer

Cameron Bready knows he needs to deliver.
Tradeweb Is Looking to Come to a Bond Market Near You

1 month ago | barrons.com | Andy Serwer

Billy Hult wants to make trading bonds as easy as buying 100 shares of Nvidia —and as CEO of Tradeweb , a giant bond-trading platform company, he gets to work on that every day.
The Secret Thread Between Warren Buffett and Other Game Changers

1 month ago | barrons.com | Andy Serwer

May has started off as a momentous month, with milestones—expected or otherwise—coming and going nearly every day. Refreshingly, many of these occurrences aren’t coming out of Washington. (Sorry, Elon.) Instead, these are narratives tied to larger-than-life, iconoclastic business leaders who’ve made their careers out of upsetting the status quo, going their own way—and even helping out the little guy.
Self-Driving Cars Will Transform the Auto Insurance Business: Jain

1 month ago | finance.yahoo.com | Andy Serwer

Unlock stock picks and a broker-level newsfeed that powers Wall Street. Andy Serwer Sat, May 3, 2025, 8:22 AM 1 min read Berkshire’s shareholders were certainly interested in insurance at the company’s annual meeting. Insurance head Ajit Jain and CEO Warren Buffett took a question about how self-driving cars are changing the car insurance business. “There's no question that insurance for automobiles is going to change dramatically once self-driving cars become a reality,” Jains said.
Private-Equity Firms Have Increased Risk in Life Insurance, Berkshire's Jain Says

1 month ago | finance.yahoo.com | Andy Serwer

Unlock stock picks and a broker-level newsfeed that powers Wall Street. Andy Serwer Sat, May 3, 2025, 11:10 AM 2 min read The Berkshire shareholder had an insurance question for CEO Warren Buffett and the company’s insurance head, Ajit Jain. It centered on private-equity firms like Blackstone, Apollo, and KKR aggressively expanding to insurance and increasing risk.
Operating Profit, Stock Buybacks, and What Else to Watch; CEO Buffett to Speak at Annual Meeting

1 month ago | barrons.com | Andy Serwer

As the private jets descend upon Omaha's Eppley Airfield this afternoon, bringing shareholders to Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, that company’s stock continues its recent stellar run, with its Class A shares finishing up 1.75% to $809,350.00, a record closing high. Berkshire stock has soared about 19% in 2025, versus a 3.3% decline for the S&P 500. That’s a stunning outperformance–especially given that Berkshire has a market capitalization now of over $1 trillion.

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Articles

Private Markets Are Crowding Out Public Markets. Where’s the SEC?

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan on What Makes the U.S. ‘Fundamentally Strong’

Yale, Harvard University Endowments Are Breaking Up With Private Equity

Universities Are in Tumult. Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan and Apollo Global’s Marc Rowan Weigh In.

Global Payments Hopes Its New Platform Makes the Market a Believer

Tradeweb Is Looking to Come to a Bond Market Near You

The Secret Thread Between Warren Buffett and Other Game Changers

Self-Driving Cars Will Transform the Auto Insurance Business: Jain

Private-Equity Firms Have Increased Risk in Life Insurance, Berkshire's Jain Says

Operating Profit, Stock Buybacks, and What Else to Watch; CEO Buffett to Speak at Annual Meeting

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