Before joining the Journal in January 2008, Mr. McGinty was a staff writer for Newsday from 2001 to 2007. He was also the training director at Investigative Reporters and Editors, an organization ...

Aides kept meetings short and controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more ...

Small-time investors may soon gain easier access to so-called private markets. That usually means higher fees, greater risk, ...

Gerry Baker is Editor at Large of The Wall Street Journal. His weekly column for the editorial page, “Free Expression,” appears in The Wall Street Journal each Tuesday. Mr. Baker is also host ...

The buzzword on Wall Street is to “democratize” everything that was once exclusively for sophisticated investors, be it hedge-fund strategies, options trading or private markets. It was only a ...