Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 03/15/2009



Lessons from crooked advisors
The financial crimes committed by Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford sadly remind me how two investment advisers gained my respect, but ended up in jail...

Business Wire - The India Fund, Inc. Announces Filing of Annual Report to Stockholders on Form N-CSR
March 3, 2009 -- The India Fund, Inc. (NYSE: IFN; the âÂEURÂœFundâÂEURÂ) announced today that it filed its Annual Report to Stockholders on Form...

Martinsburg copes with collapse of financial plan
Like the railroad tracks that cut through the center of this quiet farm town, a Wall Street-style financial scandal is dividing many who live here...

Business Wire - McGladrey Capital Markets Leads Negotiations as Lufkin Industries Acquires International Lift Systems
March 5, 2009 -- Lufkin Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUFK), a global supplier of oil field and power transmission products, has acquired International Lift...

Babcock & Brown bosses seek buyout funds
LONDON : Management teams at collapsed Australian-listed infrastructure investor Babcock & Brown are seeking finance for management buyouts, according to newspaper reports on Sunday...

COLUMN: Pivotal financial decisions for future retirees
When you're working, you have a financial strategy that is largely based on one goal: Saving money for a comfortable retirement...

Model ETF portfolios get attention from Barclays
As exchange traded funds gain in popularity, more financial advisers are building model ETF portfolios for use by other advisers...

German Economics Minister Guttenberg heads to US for GMtalks
German Economics Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg departed Sunday for the United States, where he is to hold talks with the US government and General Motors on the future of German subsidiary Opel...

Market Wire - North Bay Resources Updates Financing Plans
March 5, 2009 -- North Bay Resources Inc. (PINKSHEETS: NBRI)("North Bay" or the "Company") disclosed today that as a result of ongoingdiscussions with financial...

Maldives president vows carbon neutral nation - AP
A A A' The president of the Maldives says the Indian Ocean nation will become the world's first carbon-neutral country within a decade...

RIA awareness campaign inches closer to launch
Efforts to launch OneVoiceRIA, a branding campaign to educate investors about the existence and virtues of registered investment advisers, are being revived after a delay caused in part by its creator's job ...

OPEC members divided over cutting production
VIENNA : Battered by falling oil prices even as they try to rein in production, the leaders of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries gathered here Sunday to decide whether further cuts would be ...

Business Wire - McGladrey Capital Markets Leads Negotiations as Vitalize Consulting Solutions, Inc. Acquires r3 Health Partners
March 5, 2009 -- Vitalize Consulting Solutions Inc., a portfolio company of SV Life Sciences and Ferrer Freeman & Company, LLC, has acquired r3 Health ...

Budgeting secrets
It's time to polish up your penny-pinching skills. We're stuck in the worst recession in a generation and managing your money will be is more critical than ever...

Market Wire - Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund Provides 2008 Canadian Tax Information
March 3, 2009 -- Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund (TSX: MPT.UN)(TSX: MPT.DB) ("MPT" or the "Fund"), which owns and operates essential infrastructure...

OPEC to Keep Production Steady
With oil consumption falling sharply as a result of the global financial crisis, the OPEC oil cartel said on Sunday that it would not seek a new cut in production targets, as fears about the global economy ...

Rerun in Light of the Jon Stewart/Jim Cramer TV Smackdown: CNBC is Hazardous to Your Wealth
Originally written back in 2005, but pertinent today. We all know that TV in general is engineered to garner viewer ratings, right? Well, CNBC is geared to ...

B&B bosses seek buyout
Management teams at collapsed Australian-listed infrastructure investor Babcock & Brown are seeking finance for management buyouts, according to newspaper reports...

Ukraine and Lativia warn of financial disaster in the West if they are not helped
Ukraine and Latvia have warned that Western Europe faces financial disaster unless it unites to help stricken countries in the former Soviet bloc...

Geithner hears complaints, crowing at G20
U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was the new guy in town, fresh-faced among a crowd of silver-haired finance ministers from the Group of 20 leading economies...

Florida man sentenced for defrauding Fulton County Sheriff's Department
A former investment advisor with MetLife Financial Services who defrauded the Fulton County Sheriff's Department in 2003 was sentenced Nov. 15 to prison and was ordered to pay $2.4 million in restitution EUR¦..

Financial Futures
Washington Post columnist Martha Hamilton and financial advisor Diahann W. Lassus were online to answer questions about how to make smart decisions while preparing for retirement EUR¦..

Business Wire - Candice Nakagawa and John Sinnema Named Vice Presidents for Union Bank’s Private Bank Division
March 6, 2009 -- Union Bank, N.A., has named Candice Nakagawa and John Sinnema to vice president positions in the Los Angeles office of the Private Bank ...

NovaGold Resources Inc.: NovaGold Provides Update on New Galore Creek Project Advisors
EUR¦ financial advisor to assist the Company in securing financing for its Galore Creek copper-gold-silver project in northwestern British Columbia EUR¦..

Registered Financial Advisor
Do you have an established book of business? Are you dissatisfied with your current situation? Are you interested in discussing a new home and negotiating your book? Women and minorities strongly encouraged to ...

Benefits Selling Expo 2009 Anounnces New Sesssion: How to Recover From the Economic Recovery Act
CENTENNIAL, CO, March 15, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Benefits Selling Expo 2009, hosted by Benefits Selling, announced that a new session, entitled How to Recover from the Economic Recovery Act, has been added ...

Business Wire - Brenda Aslyn Joins the Wealth Enhancement Group Duluth Office
March 6, 2009 -- Wealth Enhancement Group, one of the MidwestâÂEURÂ(TM)s premiere financial planning firms, is pleased to announce the addition of Brenda...

Daily Journal of Commerce (Portland, OR) - Portland financial advisor named top financial advisor by Barron's
March 3, 2009 -- Ragen MacKenzie and Wells Fargo Investments LLC have announced that Jeff Wirth has been named one of the top 1,000 financial advisors in the...

Shipley spreads African message of hope in Bay
Carly Udy FORMER Prime Minister Jenny Shipley is on an unlikely crusade in Namibia to give 140 students the best education possible...

Market Wire - Advisor Confidence Declined in February
March 3, 2009 -- In February, advisor confidence in theeconomy and stock market declined, according to Rydex AdvisorBenchmarking.The Advisor Confidence Index...

Emirates airline still believes in superjumbo - AP
A A A' The Dubai-based Emirates says it recently outlined a range of reliability issues for Airbus' A380 "superjumbo" but still has confidence in the double-decker plane...

Business Wire - Financial Advisors: Economic Downturn Hitting Boomers Hardest
March 6, 2009 -- Key Messages: In comprehensive new research of financial services professionals, 77 percent of respondents...

Obama Economic Team has Wide-Ranging Assessment
Economic aides to President Barack Obama are offering varying assessments of where the U.S. economy stands two months into the new administration...

NovaGold Provides Update on New Galore Creek Project Advisors
EUR¦ financial advisor to assist the Company in securing financing for its Galore EUR¦..



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