LABJ SPECIAL REPORTS
Growth Factors
Tightened credit standards at banks have prompted businesses to turn to factors for high-cost, short-term loans.
Russell Goldsmith: Taking Image Into Account
Russell Goldsmith oversees the growth of City National Bank; now he’s focused on L.A.’s infrastructure
Let Loose in Long Beach
SPECIAL REPORT: Updated zoning plan helps draw developers downtown in L.A. County’s second- biggest city.
Changes to Long Beach’s zoning codes helped turn the city’s downtown into a center of attraction for developers.
Eight Over 80
Business Journal checks in with eight octogenarians who are too busy to consider retirement.
Card Punchers
SPECIAL REPORT: Banking & Finance Quarterly
The growing prepaid debit card market has drawn in a wide range of providers including celebrities and L.A. County’s transit agency.
Too Good to be True
SPECIAL REPORT
Big-hearted philanthropist, enthusiastic baseball fan and upstanding family man, the late Bruce Friedman was also a convicted felon accused of using lies and manipulation to steal the fortunes of retirees. Friedman’s promises to clients and charities proved to be nothing but talk after authorities shuttered his business as an alleged Ponzi scheme.
Lab to Market
SPECIAL SECTION: Innovation/Tech Transfer
Science-fiction isn’t a fantasy for these cutting-edge businesses spun off from Caltech, UCLA and USC. L.A.’s three prominent research universities send a range of products into the real world.
Range War
The battle over Newhall Ranch and its planned 21,000 homes is almost over. The developer looks to have won.
The bucolic Santa Clara River valley features scenic rolling grasslands, oak trees and other habitat typical of Southern California chaparral.
A Fine Day At the Office
SPECIAL REPORT: Executive Compensation
Most CEOs of local companies are taking home more even as shareholders look to rein in pay.
Outsized Pay Not Reserved for the Corner Office
SPECIAL REPORT: Executive Compensation
Pair of local non-CEOs bring in the highest executive pay.
L.A.’s Part-Time Billionaires
SPECIAL SECTION: Wealthiest Angelenos 2012 They don’t live in L.A. but invest in our companies, influence the economy and own some of the priciest real estate.
For many wealthy business people, Los Angeles is a nice place to visit, but they wouldn’t want to live here.
Marginal Returns
SPECIAL SECTION: Wealthiest Angelenos 2012 - L.A.’s wealthiest residents saw their fortunes sway with the stock market this year. In the end, they reaped some ‘small’ million-dollar gains.
L.A.’s wealthiest saw modest gains after years of wild swings.
50 Wealthiest: Patrick Soon-Shiong #1
SPECIAL SECTION: Wealthiest Angelenos 2012
For the fourth consecutive year, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is atop the Business Journal's Wealthiest Angelenos list,
50 Wealthiest: Eli Broad #2
SPECIAL SECTION: Wealthiest Angelenos 2012
L.A.’s most prominent philanthropist and civic leader saw across-the-board appreciation in diversified investment portfolio.
50 Wealthiest: Kirk Kerkorian #3
SPECIAL SECTION: Wealthiest Angelenos 2012
Sold off nearly $500 million of MGM Resorts International stock, but still holds 91 million shares, which fell.
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