Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 02/07/2010



A deep split on spending vs. restraint
Sunday, February 7, 2010 12:19 PM A deep split on spending vs. restraint Bruce Anderson A s G7 finance ministers ponder the economic choices facing the world, all of them are no doubt thinking about domestic political consequences too...

Business Wire - Airgas Confirms Receipt of Unsolicited Proposal from Air Products
February 5, 2010 -- HASH(0xd53720) Stockholders Advised to Take No Action Pending Review by AirgasâÂEURÂ(TM) Board of Directors ...

Evening Standard; London (UK) - Mackay's relief over Loach
February 4, 2010 -- WATFORD manager Malky Mackay thanked chairman Graham Taylor and his board for rejecting a deadline day bid for goalkeeper Scott Loach....

Bell Rock Capital will help Treasury manage emergency assets
A financial firm with ties to the Seacoast is one the companies picked by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to help manage its portfolio of assets in the wind-down phase of the Capital Purchase Program and other programs under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act...

Psychic Source Clients Defy Economic Conditions in Search of Valentine's Day Romance
As tidal waves of bad economic news continue to wash across the country, one might imagine that the annual Valentine's Day's rush for the relationship gurus of Psychic Source, the country's most respected psychic service, might be a little less intense this year...

Lightyear wraps up purchase of B-Ds, re-brands as Cetera
Private-equity firm Lightyear Capital LLC last week said that it has completed its acquisition of three ING Groep NV broker-dealers. Financial Network Investment Corp., Multi-Financial Securities Corp...

What Obama wants is financial insanity
Let's say you're a financial advisor and I come to you for advice. I'm a salesman...

Business Wire - TD AMERITRADE Institutional Survey Shows Practice Management is Top Focus for RIAs in 2010
February 4, 2010 -- TD AMERITRADE INSTITUTIONAL SURVEY SHOWS PRACTICEMANAGEMENT IS TOP FOCUS FOR RIAs IN 2010 With Market Rebound, Advisors Taking...

Business Wire - Direct Downloads to TurboTax Make Tax Time Easier
February 3, 2010 -- Investors affiliated with Commonwealth Financial NetworkâÂEURÂ(TM)s financial advisors can import 2009 tax information directly into TurboTax. ...

Business Wire - TD AMERITRADE Institutional Outlines Programs; Product Enhancements to Help Independent Advisors Gain a Competitive Edge in 2010
February 4, 2010 -- TD AMERITRADE INSTITUTIONAL OUTLINES PROGRAMS; PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS TO HELP INDEPENDENT ADVISORS GAIN A COMPETITIVE EDGE IN 2010 New...

New Research Report: United Kingdom Defence & Security Report Q1 2010
In November 2009 a series of media reports emerged suggesting that Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government was considering several major procurement issues ahead of this formal review process as part its 2010 spending review that will conclude by December 2009...

Business Newsmakers
Beauregard, Burke & Franco, a SouthCoast law practice specializing in complex and catastrophic accident cases, business and civil litigation as well as municipal and governmental law, has added attorneys Jason Parent, Kreg R. Espinola and Jason Brolsma...

Evening Standard; London (UK) - Mackay's relief over Loach
February 4, 2010 -- WATFORD manager Malky Mackay thanked chairman Graham Taylor and his board for rejecting a deadline day bid for goalkeeper Scott Loach....

Financial Advisor
Financial Advisor with a National Bank. Responsibilities for this position include: Building a private practice of high net worth individuals...

Barnaby Grist leaves Schwab for new venture
Barnaby Grist has left his position as senior managing director of strategic business development of The Charles Schwab Corp.'s in-vestment adviser group to join Cetera Financial Group, a new independent-brokerage venture controlled by Lightyear Capital LLC...

Schwab hands Bernie Clark reins to RIA business
The Charles Schwab Corp. last week handed the reins of its registered investment adviser custody business to Bernard "Bernie" Clark who had run sales and relationship management for the Advisor Services group...

Business Events Calendar
Published: Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 10:40 p.m. Monday Northport Advisory Council: 6 p.m. at Wintzell's Oyster House, 1 Bridge Ave., Northport...

Market Wire - Stonebridge Associates Advises Serica Technologies, Inc. on Sale to Allergan
February 5, 2010 -- Allergan, Inc., a leading multi-specialtyhealthcare company, acquired Serica Technologies, Inc. (Serica), a developerof silk-based biomaterials...

Kosel winds up a 39 year career of teaching ag
For 39 years Brian Kosel has been a familiar figure in the Ag Department at the Owatonna High School...

When buying off the plan turns out to have a downside
Beware the many pitfalls that come with purchasing property before it is built. YOU'D never buy a pair of expensive jeans without trying them on first...

Hilligoss-Alderman Wedding
Molly Ann Hilligoss and Derrick Brandon Alderman were married on Dec. 31, 2009. The ceremony was held at Central United Methodist Church and was attended by an intimate gathering of immediate family and close friends...

Child maintenance agency to seize 340 homes
More than 200 have bank accounts frozen under new powers, as number of children covered by commission passes 800,000 Nine properties have been seized so far by the commission...

Don't Borrow
No financial advisor would ever recommend that a financially fragile business owner or homeowner take on more debt...

Tom Foley has a plan
'You Don't Know Where You Are Going, You'll Probably End Up Somewhere Else," is the title of a self-help book advocating the benefits of having a plan...

Caring for kids, parents squeezes
Are you a member of the "Sandwich Generation?" This designation - which applies to people caring for their aging parents while supporting their own children - may be applicable to you if you're either a younger Baby Boomer, born in the late 1950s or early 1960s, or an older member of "Generation X," born in the mid-1960s. Any way you slice it, ...

Telegraph - Herald; Dubuque, Iowa - tri-state people
February 5, 2010 -- Jeff Becker, trust and investment officer at First Community Bank of Galena, was recently awarded the Certified Trust & Financial Advisor...

Trollinger-Lasater to wed
Blan and Julie Trollinger of Murfreesboro announce the engagement of their daughter, Sarah Blanchard Trollinger, to Robert Judd Lasater...

Market Wire - American Diversified Holdings Announces New Value Based Business Initiatives
February 5, 2010 -- American Diversified Holdings Corporation(PINKSHEETS: ADHC) announces a new mission and strategy for the new decade.Citing "new opportunities"...

Business Wire - Allied Capital Responds to Prospect Capital Corporation Letter
February 3, 2010 -- HASH(0x2a966a3e90) WASHINGTON -- Allied Capital Corporation (NYSE: ALD) announced today that it has issued the following letter...

Stock Upgrades Can Lead to Higher Prices. These Stocks Were Upgraded 02/03/2010
Analysts up grades and down grades can have a strong influence on a stocks performance...



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