Rachel Louise Ensign is a Reporter at The Wall Street Journal. She specializes in finance and personal finance, covering themes such as business and economics, the economy, and trading, with a focus on markets, cryptocurrency, and significant financial institutions like Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank. Rachel's work has been featured in Financial News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo News, and The Wall Street Journal.
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Rachel's coverage primarily focuses on finance and higher education, with a particular emphasis on banking, wealth management, and donor relations within elite universities. Her articles frequently cite data and provide investment analysis.
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By: Rachel Louise Ensign
In May, Bill Carroll’s doctor told him that his one functioning kidney, which his wife had donated to him seven years earlier, was failing. At work, the UBS wealth management executive told the grim news to his colleague Jane Schwartzberg. A few decades ago, kidney donations from people who weren’t blood relatives of the recipients were extremely rare.
By: Levi Mandel, Rachel Louise Ensign
After a wealth management executive discovered his kidney was failing, he found an unexpected donor in a close work friend
By: Rachel Louise Ensign
David Fucillo built up his emergency fund over the years with direct deposits into a savings account at Capital One Financial with above-average interest rates. When the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates in 2022, many customers of the McLean, Va., bank assumed their rates would go up. Instead, Capital One is paying them far below the 4.35% it advertises on its main savings account.
By: Rachel Louise Ensign
The collapse of the wealth-management business is one reason why Citi’s stock is stuck in a deep slump and CEO Jane Fraser is under pressure to boost profits.
By: Aaron Zitner, Rachel Louise Ensign, Amara Omeokwe, Rachel Wolfe
米経済は堅調にもかかわらず国民の多くが悲観的なのは、自らの長期的な経済基盤がもろく、幅広い社会的・政治的脅威にさらされていると感じるからだ。
By: Aaron Zitner, Rachel Louise Ensign, Amara Omeokwe, Rachel Wolfe
Americans are weighed down by fears of an unpredictable world in which no one in government or business is competent to steer the nation through precarious times
By: Rachel Louise Ensign
Every weekday morning, New York Community Bancorp executive James Carpenter got a call from commercial mortgage broker Ralph Herzka. The close relationship between NYCB and Herzka’s firm, Meridian Capital Group, was unusual in the industry. Together, the companies rode the New York property boom fueled by low interest rates, going from local upstarts to major players in the real-estate world.
Interest rates on CDs and savings accounts are expected to keep falling.
By: Rachel Louise Ensign
Howard Lutnick, the CEO who rebuilt Cantor Fitzgerald, is finding thousands of potential employees for a new Trump administration.
Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick was pitching a startup that said it made a key component of self-driving cars, which would soon be valued at $2 billion. “I’m brilliantly successful because I select brilliantly,” Lutnick said during a 2021 video call selling investors on AEye which had almost no revenue at the time. Lutnick was behind a blank-check company, or SPAC, that planned to merge with AEye to take it public.
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