Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 02/22/2010



Religare Announces USD 1 Billion Commitment To Expanding Global Asset Management Platform
The parties have signed a definitive agreement for Religare to acquire a majority equity interest in Northgate's Management Company...

Business Wire - AmericanWest Bancorporation Announces Fourth Quarter and Year End 2009 Financial Results and Engagement of New Financial Advisor
February 19, 2010 -- HASH(0x1f2ced0) SPOKANE, Wash. -- AmericanWest Bancorporation (NASDAQ: AWBC) today announced fourth quarter and year-end 2009...

Sidestepping Skepticism, Prudential Scores with Variable Annuities
Bruce Ferris, the senior vice president of sales and distribution for Prudential Annuities, said he has heard all the objections from wholesalers and advisors concerning variable annuities...

Schlumberger sees gas drill growth in Smith deal
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO - Oilfield services leader Schlumberger Ltd aims to gain share in shale gas drilling with its purchase of rival Smith International Inc, and expects few antitrust hurdles...

Market Wire - Orrick Advises on a Series of Indian Capital Markets Transactions
February 22, 2010 -- The London corporate and finance teams at Orrick advised ISM Capital LLP (ISM), an investment banking boutique that focuses on, among other...

New Research Study: $1 Million is Not Enough for the Average American Family to Retire
Ask average American families how much money they will need to save for retirement and you often receive answers at or around $1 million...

Business Wire - the Rubicon Project Declares the Ad Server Dead
February 19, 2010 -- HASH(0x1f27c60) Allen & Company LLC Retained as Financial Advisor to Support Strategic Growth Initiatives; Company Developing...

Canadians have their say on Financial Literacy
"Financial literacy is essential to all Canadians," said Task Force Chair Donald A. Stewart...

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TRINITY Although site work has begun for the new patient wing and surgical suite at East Texas Medical Center-Trinity, actual construction is now set to begin in early June...

Daily Post; Liverpool (UK) - City on brink of expulsion despite seven-day reprieve
February 19, 2010 -- CHESTER City could well have played their last match in the Blue Square Premier following a meeting of the Football Conference management...

Merrill Lynch: Money managers performed well in 22 years
The investment consultant of the NMI Retirement Fund said its money managers have performed well since its inception more than 22 years ago.. Merrill Lynch vice president/financial advisor Kirk H. Taniguchi reported during yesterday's regular meeting held at Hyatt Regency Saipan that to date the Fund's total investments grew $335 million...

Market Wire - Li3 Energy Appoints David Wahl and Antonio Ortúzar as Directors
February 19, 2010 -- Li3 Energy, Inc. (OTCBB: LIEG), ("Li3 Energy" orthe "Company") is pleased to announce the appointments of David G. Wahl andAntonio OrtÃzar to...

Telegraph - Herald; Dubuque, Iowa - tri-state people
February 18, 2010 -- Premier Bank has entered into an agreement with LPL Financial, who will now serve as the broker/dealer for the bank's new division, Premier...

Terex Completes Sale of Mining Business to Bucyrus
Terex Completes Sale of Mining Business to Bucyrus Terex Corporation announced that it has completed the previously announced sale of its Mining business to Bucyrus International for $1 billion in cash plus approximately 5.8 million shares of Bucyrus common stock...

Wyndham Exchange & Rentals to Acquire Hoseasons
Wyndham Worldwide today announced that its Exchange & Rentals business unit, the European leader in exclusive marketing of independent holiday accommodation, has agreed to acquire Hoseasons Holdings Ltd, one of the UK's most renowned holiday brands, from HgCapital and a number of individual parties...

Grimsby Telegraph - Applications up a quarter
February 19, 2010 -- PAUL Wood, partner at Pygott & Crone presented a bottle of champagne to top performing sales negotiator Joe Snookes. Joe was the top...

Sunday Telegraph, The; London (UK) - Goldman no longer involved in Tote sale
February 21, 2010 -- THE Government has parted company with Goldman Sachs following the failure to sell the Tote, the state-owned bookmaker. A new...

Are You An Olympic Investor?
This month, skiers, skaters, hockey players and other athletes are in Vancouver for the Winter Olympic Games...

Thermo Fisher in $6 billion bid for Millipore: source
Laboratory equipment maker Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc has offered $6 billion to buy Millipore Corp, according to a person familiar with the situation, in a deal that would increase its presence in the manufacture of biotech drugs...

Football hero Sir Geoff Hurst's name 'abused' in property scheme
Sir Geoff Hurst told London's high court that he felt remorse at allowing his name 'to be used and abused' in a Spanish property scheme...

RBC Snags Million-Dollar Advisor from UBS
RBC Wealth Management has continued its success in luring big producing UBS advisors, recruiting Thomas Brockley to join its Albany, N.Y. branch...

How to Become a Terrible Investor
In a commencement address years ago,A Charlie Munger evoked the late Johnny Carson, noting that Carson, "couldn't tell the graduating class how to be happy, but he could tell them from personal experience how to guarantee misery." This theme -- studying failure rather than success -- is common for Munger...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Secures New $650 Million Cash Investment.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company today announced that leading institutional investors have committed to invest $650 million of new equity capital in the company, and that it has reached an historic agreement on a recapitalization that strengthens HMH's balance sheet, significantly reduces its debt, and provides for the substantial new ...

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Financial adviser in scam sentenced to five years in prison
One of two men indicted for defrauding investors who believed their money was being used to finance home construction in Colorado Springs and a high-tech business campus near Larkspur has been sentenced to five years in prison...

Sunday Telegraph, The; London (UK) - Goldman no longer involved in Tote sale [Edition 2]
February 21, 2010 -- THE Government has parted company with Goldman Sachs following the failure to sell the Tote, the state-owned bookmaker. A new...

Greece trades should have been less opaque: Goldman
Past deals by Greece and others to massage public deficits lacked transparency, a senior Goldman Sachs banker said, the first time it talked openly about financial instruments it and other banks sold...

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - USAA Real Estate sells Tooele center
February 20, 2010 -- USAA Real Estate Co. said Friday it has sold the Reckitt Benckiser distribution center in Tooele County to real estate advisory firm American...



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