Matthew Schifrin 10.06.08, 6:00 PM ET September 2008 was a black month for Wall Street and most anyone involved in investing. It was a month when 152-year-old Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and once-mighty Merrill Lynch was forced into a fire-sale to Bank of America. Credit markets seized to the point where panicky investors bid up Treasury bonds to negative yields. A slew of financial institutions failed and stocks plummeted nearly 12% for the month. You would think that it would be a difficult month to hold an investment conference. Not so if you're Schwab Institutional, which hosted a financial adviser gathering from Sept. 23 to Sept. 26 at Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center. Despite the gas shortages in neighboring counties, more than 3,500 investment advisers and hundreds of mutual fund companies, insurance...
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