Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 03/01/2010



Cash-Rich Firms Snare Rivals In Flurry Of Deals
A lack of financing from skittish banks continues to keep a lid on private equity deals...

Market Wire - Groupworks Closes 166,666 Share Private Placement with Insider
February 25, 2010 -- Groupworks Financial Corp. ("Groupworks" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: GWC) announces that it closed the previously announced non-brokered...

FFA Week climax filled with fun
The Antigo High School's FFA chapter capped an active week with fun, games and foolishness on Friday afternoon...

GPA recalculation explained
The recent grade recalculation proposal by SGA provided a unique opportunity to see how things work at ASU...

Money
Economics impacts every corner of the globe. Here's a look at five of the most dangerous misconceptions that have hounded free market economists since the days of Adam Smith...

Storm Ventures International Inc. Completes Strategic Acquisition of.
Storm Ventures International Inc. is pleased to announce that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of oil and natural gas assets located in west central Alberta from certain wholly-owned subsidiaries of Provident Energy Trust, for a total purchase price of approximately $190 million with an effective date of October 1, 2009 ...

Telegraph - Herald; Dubuque, Iowa - tri-state people
February 28, 2010 -- Barton Wealth Management, LLC, a Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network affiliate, announced that Tom Barton, president, has become a General...

Business Wire - NFP Launches NFP IndeSuite™
February 25, 2010 -- HASH(0x2a966a2870) Offering Provides Independent RIAs a Robust Wealth Management Platform Plus Integration of B/D and RIA...

RBC Wealth Grabs Former Stifel Team
Showing no signs of slowing down in its drive to snatch talent from competitors, RBC Wealth Management announced that it has hired a former Stifel Nicolaus team for its San Francisco office...

Business Wire - Janus Adds Financial Intermediary Sales Director in Texas
February 25, 2010 -- HASH(0x1efe7a0) DENVER -- Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: JNS) has announced the addition of Riley Horlacher to its Advisor...

Queensland Times, The; Ipswich, Qld. - How to buy $7000 of hot air
February 27, 2010 -- A SUCKER'S born every minute, we like to say, smugly confident that the sucker isn't us. We shake our heads at the naivety of...

Tax Guide
Although the tax code permits a wide range of deductions, thousands of filers routinely claim write-offs that are in fact non-deductible. These are some of the most common ones...

Market Wire - Nortec Minerals Engages Torrey Hills Capital as Investor Relations Consultants
February 25, 2010 -- Nortec Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE: NVT)(FRANKFURT: WMQ) ("Nortec" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce that it has retained San Diego Torrey...

RIA Survey: $1 Million Not Nearly Enough for Retirement
While the average American family believes $1 million is the gold standard for retirement savings, a new survey by Scottrade Advisor Services finds that most independent advisors think this number is probably way off...

Daily Mirror, The; London (UK) - OAP'S HELL IN DUBAI DEBT JAIL
February 26, 2010 -- AN elderly British grandad has been jailed in a squalid Dubai prison because he can't pay a bill. Jack Hyndman, 78, has lived in...

Lionsgate Board To Review Icahn Offer
SANTA MONICA, CA, and VANCOUVER, BC, March 1, 2010 -- Lionsgate , today announced that it has received an unsolicited tender offer from Carl Icahn to acquire up to 13,164,420 common shares for USD $6.00 per share in cash...

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Business Wire - McGladrey Capital Markets Leads Negotiations as Zanbar Capital Provides Growth Capital to Public Interest Data
February 26, 2010 -- McGladrey Capital Markets leads negotiations as Zanbar Capital provides growth capital to Public Interest Data COSTA MESA, Calif. --...

Investment victims wonder what happened to their retirement accounts
A criminal investigation is underway into financial advisor Rhonda Breard to find out what happened to millions of dollars in retirement accounts...

Experts Available to Discuss Hospital-Acquired Infections Killed 48,000 Patients: Study
ExpertSource: "Hospitals and other healthcare providers must act now to protect patients from this growing menace." TOPIC: Pneumonia and sepsis caused by hospital-acquired infections killed 48,000 people and increased U.S. healthcare costs by $8.1 billion in 2006, according to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine ...

Giving Free Advice on Held-Away Assets? Here's How to Stop
Some financial planners and advisors are just giving away their expertise. These advisors are not always comfortable charging fees for advice on client assets held outside of their primary custodian because they say it does not constitute what they consider holistic financial planning...

Letters: Paying for the energy of the future
Energy regulator Ofgem has taken action on the issue the National Housing Federation and others raise about overcharging of pre-payment meter customers...

Daily Mirror, The; London (UK) - OAP'S HELL IN DUBAI DEBT JAIL
February 26, 2010 -- AN elderly British grandad has been jailed in a squalid Dubai prison because he can't pay a bill. Jack Hyndman, 78, has lived in...

5 Steps to Rethinking Your Retirement Plan
RISMEDIA, March 2, 2010a ' a 'One year after the start of the crash, your 401k or IRA is pretty much back to even, according to some studies at least...

A Big Upgrade for Allstate
Every day, the sun rises on Wall Street, and a plethora of professional analysts wake to issue new opinions on stocks...

Greek Government Ignores Strikers, Listens to EU as Crisis Mounts
Last Wednesday, public and private sector workers in Greece walked off the job for the second general strike in two weeks...

Business Wire - Janus Adds Financial Intermediary Sales Director in California
February 25, 2010 -- HASH(0x1efe590) DENVER -- Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: JNS) has announced the addition of Matthew Shortal to its Advisor...

Time To Take Retirement Plan Distribution
You may not have the pictures, suntan or souvenirs to show for it, but if you're at least 70-1/2, you've just finished a "vacation." And that means you'll have to do some work - on determining how much to take out of your retirement plans this year...

Tomorrow's Monster Stock?
Stocks climbing to 10 times their original price are rare breeds -- but they're not impossible to find...

MFS Announces Closed-End Fund Distributions
MFS Investment ManagementA announced today monthly distributions of the following closed-end funds, all with declaration dates of March 1, 2010, ex-dividend dates of March 9, 2010, record dates of March 11, 2010, and payable dates of March 31, 2010: A *Distributions from a oeother sourcesa may represent income and/or a non-taxable return of ...



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