Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 04/06/2009



America's Next Top Value Stock
Though value investors have been some of the most successful investors out there, finding good stocks at bargain prices is far from easy...

It's spring cleaning time for your finances, too
April is National Financial Literacy month, and the perfect time to "spring clean" your money management to build a bright credit and debt outlook...

A Formula for Failure
By Alan Caruba S. Orange, NJ - Oil producing nations such as Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, along with Venezuela, will grow rich while Americans will be faced with high costs for gasoline, motor and heating oil, and everything else that depends on oil such as asphalt or even Vaseline...

Regulators, govt to tighten supervision of financial advisors
The government and financial sector regulators have decided to work out a policy for regulating financial intermediaries to reduce the scope of mis-selling of products and improve investor education...

Business Wire - TIB Financial Corp. Announces its Annual Meeting of Shareholders Schedule
March 31, 2009 -- NAPLES, Fla. -- TIB Financial Corp. (NASDAQ:TIBB), parent company of TIB Bank, The Bank of Venice and Naples Capital Advisors, leading...

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¦..

PR Newswire - Grubb & Ellis Company Extends 10-K Filing Beyond March 31, 2009
March 31, 2009 -- SANTA ANA, Calif., March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Grubb & Ellis Company , a leading real estate services and investment firm, today announced...

Edison Miyawaki Is Inducted into Seaver Wall of Fame
Edison Miyawaki's relationship with LMU began in 1948, when he met Lorenzo Malone, S.J., a Jesuit from Loyola University...

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¦..

The List: Ditching the Dollar
The details: Last month, the governor of China's central bank, Zhou Xiaochuan, sent shock waves through the political and financial worlds by suggesting the world's largest foreign holder of U.S. dollars supported the creation of a new global reserve currency...

Companies You Should Buy Right Now
The stock market is fundamentally different from what it was a decade ago. The Internet, frankly, changed everything...

Vanguard adds to its ETF roster
The Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Exchange Traded Fund , which seeks to track the performance of the FTSE Global Small-Cap ex-US Index, began trading today, The Vanguard Group Inc...

Daily Record (Rochester, NY) - Commentary: How can you prevent investment fraud?
April 1, 2009 -- There are a few simple, nearly certain ways to prevent 99 percent of investment frauds we witnessed from the Madoff scandal, the Stanford Financial...

Wall Street's latest grab
Obama's economics guru, White House chief economic advisor Larry Summers, has been a walking career controversy and his latest activities are more of the same...

N.C., Mich. Governors Bet on Final Game
Governor Bev Perdue will be donning her best Carolina blue for tonight's championship game, and she hopes Michigan's Governor Jennifer Granholm will be wearing the same color later this week...

Avaricious dreams
On March 16, the Communist Party of India issued its manifesto, which said that it would 'launch a drive to unearth black money, especially those stashed in Swiss banks and other tax havens'. The issue was taken up by Sharad Yadav of Janata Dal , who said on March 27 that there were 1.47 trillion dollars hidden by Indians in Swiss banks...

Forbes Counts Medco As One of The 'Most Trustworthy Companies'
While current market turmoil has investors wondering about the safety of their savings, listed Medco Health Solutions, Inc...

Business Wire - Ute Indian Tribe: Former Financial Advisor Improperly Seeks to Impact Ute Election to Sidestep Court Case
April 1, 2009 -- UINTAH AND OURAY RESERVATION, Utah -- Tribal officials believe that John Jurrius, the Ute Indian TribeâÂEURÂ(TM)s former financial...

Shares of MGM Mirage rise 40 percent
Shares of casino giant MGM Mirage gained more than 40 percent in value this morning on news the company has retained a Wall Street investment firm to evaluate offers for two of the company's casinos...

Warming to cost industrial nations $100bn per year
Among the proposals for funding the costs of adapting to climate change at the ongoing UN inter-governmental meeting in Bonn is one by G77 and China...

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

Business Wire - Scout Investment Advisors, Inc. to Manage TrendStar Fund
April 1, 2009 -- KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- TrendStar Advisors, LLC (âÂEURÂœTrendStarâÂEURÂ), the investment advisor to the TrendStar Small-Cap Fund, has...

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¦..

Will strive to avoid bankruptcy: GM boss
Bankruptcy is not inevitable for General Motors Corp. but it may be an option said the automaker's new chief executive yesterday, who is under White House orders to win more concessions from bondholders and unionized workers...

Market Wire - Barnum Financial Group, an Office of MetLife, Is Hiring Throughout Connecticut and Tri-State Area
April 1, 2009 -- Barnum Financial Group, MetLife's #1 Office forthe 5th year in a row, announced that it is accepting applications for avariety of positions at...

Business Wire - Pluris Says Proposed “Fair Value” Revisions Gut Standard
April 2, 2009 -- FSP Gives Little Guidance, Hurts Companies That Have Been Diligent NEW YORK -- Proposed revisions to the âÂEURœfair...

Best Currency Report: April 2009
Foreign Exchange specialists Currency UK are today launching their Best Currency Performance Tables, which reveal the strength of worldwide currencies and act as a comparison tool to show how each currency is performing against another. [ClickPress, Mon Apr 06 2009] Foreign Exchange specialists Currency UK are today launching their Best Currency ...

Twitter -- Killer Ap or Frivolous Time-Waster?
In all my days of using the Internet -- from forums to blogs to social networking -- I've never seen a new application take off and hit critical mass the way Twitter.com has, particularly in the past six weeks...

Journal Record, The (Oklahoma City) - Investors see strong week
March 31, 2009 -- Investors enjoyed another strong week before taking some gains off the table as the trading session closed out the quarter on Friday. The rally was...

PR Newswire - Kennedy Wilson Awarded 1.2 Million Square Feet of New Management Assignments
March 31, 2009 -- These Assignments Demonstrate Kennedy Wilson's Deep Relationships with Financial Institutions and Advisors BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., March 31...

Stocks to Avoid Now?
If you're thinking of selling your stocks, you're not alone . According to insider tracker Form 4 Oracle, executives at these three firms cashed in shares last week: The week's selling Insiders sell for many reasons, from compensation to estate or tax planning, to just plain getting out...

Business Wire - E-Z Data Announces its 2009 Sponsorship of Financial-Planning.com’s Software Technology Channel
April 1, 2009 -- PASADENA, Calif. -- E-Z Data, a top provider of customer relationship management (CRM) and practice management solutions for the financial...

3 Reasons to Avoid PotashCorp
A sputtering economy, implosions at financial institutions, or just plain bad management -- on any given day, investors can name a number of reasons to sell a stock ...

Webster Jury Selection Goes For Fourth Day
Pasco, WA- Attorneys continue to pare down the number of potential jurors in the trial of a convicted felon accused of raping a cellmate inside the Franklin County Jail...



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