After waiting weeks for an appointment, Fertig learned that the diesel-powered Sprinters required separate inspection and another appointment.
Mr. Fertig pointed to the recent days' rally, which saw the blue-chip Dow rise to a six-week high.
Beth Fertig is a senior reporter with member station WNYC in New York.
"We needed to find the right drivers who really high-profile people would feel comfortable sharing their address with, " says Fertig.
"This feels a little bit like a panic to the upside, " said Maury Fertig, chief investment officer at Relative Value Partners.
In November Fertig plans to launch Brilliant's second hub, in Los Angeles.
Mr. Fertig said that run-up had been fueled by hopes for a third round of direct bond buying by the Fed, known on Wall Street as QE3.
It's the harvest season for sugarcane, and as Beth Fertig of member station KRVS reports, farmers in coastal Louisiana are still waiting to see how badly their fields were damaged.
Several months into a brutal job hunt Fertig, then 38, decided to launch Brilliant Transportation, a limousine service for the likes of his former colleagues and customers in New York City.
From there Fertig added hardwood floors, cabinets, desks, refrigerators, Wi-Fi capability, a hands-free intercom, color printers, wireless headphones for two 32-inch LCD-screen televisions and a touchscreen-controlled stereo system with eight speakers.
If you choose a closed-end fund trading at a discount to its net asset value, you might also get some capital appreciation, says Maury Fertig, chief investment officer at Relative Value Partners LLC, Northbrook, Ill.
Because Brilliant's clients tend to take longer trips, Fertig needs only a skeletal support staff, including a booker, general manager and full-time detailer--another bonus for his drivers, as most contractors have to do their own upkeep.
"If you look at what most economists were saying, it was unlikely that we were going to get any more than Operation Twist, but the market may have been expecting more dramatic action, " says Maury Fertig, chief investment officer at Relative Value Partners.
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