Leadership changes and litigation risk should not scare investors away from financials, as quarterly results show that several names are currently a fairly good deal, says Morningstar's Jim Sinegal.
Citigroup has fallen on hard times in recent years, but it has still managed to train the chief executives of the country's biggest banks and card networks.
Among Vikram Pandit's last jobs as Citigroup Inc.'s chief executive officer was to decide the fate of the bank's hedge-fund unit, which employs some of his oldest colleagues. He agreed to give them most of it for free.