Joyce GoldschmidWarren Hellman, banjo messiah? With just a half-year to go before Golden Gate Park's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, free-concert backer Warren Hellman is combing the wreckage of the global financial collapse, seeking to augment the fortune that keeps his massive three-day music festival stocked with first-rate talent.According to the financial newspaper The Daily Deal, Hellman & Friedman LLC is among the bidders for iShares, an exchange-traded fund business whose owner i
What happens to the document you spend hours perfecting -- until your computer crashes and burns? Sure, the data is lost -- but, existentially, where does it go? Is there a special corner of the universe chock full o' unsaved term papers and other e-casualties? If so, perhaps that's where peeved shareholders of the San Francisco-based management investment company iShares should look. A class action suit filed Tuesday in local district court seeks redress for what could arguably be characterized