Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 03/28/2010



Market Wire - iTeknik Holding Corporation Engages Investment Banking Firm to Assist in Analyzing Strategic Business Alternatives
March 24, 2010 -- iTeknik Holding Corporation (PINKSHEETS: ITKH), a leader and innovator in the telecommunications industry, announced that its Board of Directors...

Vacation from RMD is over
Time to take retirement plan distributions? You may not have the pictures, suntan or souvenirs to show for it, but if you're at least 70, 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...

Put away checkbook and hire an advisor to help child
QUESTION: As a parent, should I be helping out my daughter financially, and if so, how much? She is 42, never married and without children...

U.S. Newswire - 'SGX Advisors' Changes Name to 'SGH Macro Advisors'
March 26, 2010 -- NEW YORK, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- SGX Advisors announces its name change to SGH Macro Advisors effective March 1, 2010. The name change was...

Time Is Running Out for the US Dollar
More Irrational Thinking Gold's latest breakdown below $1,100 an ounce seems like a big deal -- worrying gold bulls, vindicating gold bears, and giving market analysts and financial journalists something to write about...

The Rule of 72
This column is dedicated to my grandfather, Norman Webb. He died in October 2006...

U.S. Healthcare Reform: Likely a Big Boon for Majority of Healthcare Companies
On March 23, 2010 President Barack Obama signed the historic healthcare reform bill into law...

Newsmakers
Duties: Respons-ible for making guests feel welcome and ensuring guest satisfaction with new and used car purchases...

West Briton, The; Truro (UK) - Milestone for free service
March 25, 2010 -- A FREE service based in Truro has celebrated helping its 200th entrepreneur to turn business ideas into successful companies....

Details: Obama Announces Recess Appointments - The Page by Mark Halperin - TIME.com
"After facing months of Republican obstruction to administration nominees, President Obama announced his intent to recess appoint fifteen nominees to fill critical administration posts that have been left vacant, including key positions on the economic team and on boards that have been left with vacancies for months...

Michelle Thompson Of Cherry, Bekaert & Holland Named Treasurer Of National Funding Association Board
Raleigh, NC, March 28, 2010 -- -- Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P. has announced that Michelle Thompson, audit partner and consulting partner at the firm, has been appointed treasurer for the Research Triangle chapter of The National Funding Association ...

Market Wire - RAS & Associates Hires Key Leadership Team Member to Add New Capabilities
March 24, 2010 -- Janice Sambol recently joined RAS & Associates, Strategy and Management Consulting Firm, further solidifying the professional services firm as a...

8 Top Yielding Israeli Stocks
During the last year, the First Israel Fund Inc. has practically doubled, going from a little over $8 per share to above $16 per share today...

Keep your faith in income trusts
Effective Jan. 1, 2011, income trusts classified as Specified Investment Flow-Through Trusts will have to pay distribution taxes, known as the SIFT tax...

AT&T tries to trick customers into paying more to use less
AT&T has made little secret of the fact that iPhone users' voracious appetite for Internet bandwidth has loaded down its 3G network to its breaking point...

Business Wire - Scout International Fund Receives 2010 Lipper Fund Award
March 25, 2010 -- The Scout International Fund (UMBWX) has been honored with a 2010 Lipper Fund Award for its three-year performance. KANSAS CITY, Mo. --...

Daily News; Warwick, Qld. - Making the right choice
March 26, 2010 -- RETIREINVEST Advice Group has a proud history, and since 1979, it has continued to look after thousands of clients as one of Australia's...

Bad advice continues for Roth IRA conversions
This is why I must keep writing about Roth IRA conversions: A dozen readers age 701/2 and older have written to say their financial advisers recommended they convert their entire traditional IRAs to Roth IRAs this year...

White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett sits down with host Jake Tapper on
As a result of President Obama's health care reform law, "business will come out way ahead," President Obama's senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said this morning in an exclusive interview on "This Week." White House senior advisor sits down with ABC's Jake Tapper on "This Week." Asked about recent news that a number of companies will have to write ...

Ex-Bush advisor to speak at MSU
By PAUL SIMS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it An advisor to former President George W. Bush will be the keynote speaker at Mississippi State University's 23rd Annual Insurance Day next month...

Business Wire - Public Officials and Energy Professionals to Explore Future of the Grid at NYISO Symposium
March 25, 2010 -- HASH(0x2a966aa620) Panels to Focus on Broader Regional Markets, the Carbon Constrained Economy and Enhanced Interregional...

Wireless News - Alion Closes $310 Million Unit Offering
March 26, 2010 -- Alion Science and Technology, an employee-owned technology solutions company, announced that it has completed a refinancing that includes the...

Business Wire - Schwab Earns Highest Customer Loyalty Ranking Among Brokerage & Investment Firms in Satmetrix Net Promoter's 2010 Industry Report
March 25, 2010 -- HASH(0x1f31fc0) Firm Ranked First for Third Consecutive Year in Consumer Brokerage and Investor Sector SAN...

The smart way to help others
Are you helping out an adult child financially? And if at the same time you also contribute financially to a parent's support, you have reached "elite squeeze" status in the sandwiched boomer generation...

North America Business Conference LLC Presents the 2010 Summer Tour.
Carol Davenport, President of North America Business Conference LLC, is pleased to announce the "Thriving not Surviving" business conferences...

Evening Post; Bristol (UK) - Drink-driver celebrated remission [Edition 2]
March 27, 2010 -- A CANCER survivor celebrating a return to work with a boozy lunch was caught drink-driving on his way home to Bristol after crashing his...

New owner for Augusta Mall?
Simon Property Group made what it called a $10 billion offer for General Growth Properties, the owner of Augusta Mall, that would end one of the largest U.S. bankruptcies on record and combine the two largest U.S. shopping mall owners...

Advisers turn to new tactics for gauging risk
Clients say that they can tolerate a 10% loss, but do they really mean it? By Lisa Shidler March 28, 2010 6:01 am ET The S&P 500 has gained 48% over the past year, but memories of the market crash are still fresh, forcing many financial advisers to move risk assessment off the back burner and to the center of their playbooks...

Marketplace: TriCor Financial will help you make a plan
John Barragan has been doing financial, investment, estate and small business planning in Park City for over four years...

Finally, Obama makes recess appointments
After months of obstruction by Senate Republicans, the White House announced on March 27 : "The United States Senate has the responsibility to approve or disapprove of my nominees...



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