Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 04/22/2009



Is the post-liberation honeymoon over for South Africa's ANC?
ANC head Jacob Zuma is expected to become South Africa's new president after a vote this week...

Business Wire - Nuveen Santa Barbara Dividend Growth Fund Receives 5-Star Overall Morningstar Rating™
April 15, 2009 -- CHICAGO -- Nuveen Investments, a leading global provider of investment services to institutions and high-net-worth investors, today...

Strange Incident on Franklin Street
Strange Incident on Franklin Street Although yesterday, April 20th, was a nationwide, counterculture holiday called 4-20 which celebrates marijuana use, the Chapel Hill police had to respond to a trippy case of hallucinogenic mushrooms...

Business Wire - DWS Investments Launches Comprehensive Structured Products Education Suite
April 15, 2009 -- Providing Industry Leading Education to Demystify Structured Notes and CDs NEW YORK -- DWS Investments, the U.S. retail...

Minority Small Businesses Key to Economy
Small businesses have long been called the life-blood of the U.S. economy; the same can be said for the Los Angeles economy, said U.S. Bancorp CEO Richard Davis at the launch of a new business organization last week in Downtown Los Angeles...

Business Wire - ION Media Networks Announces Discussions with Secured Lenders Regarding Recapitalization
April 15, 2009 -- Discussions Target Conversion of Debt to Equity, Additional Funding, and Operational Continuity WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. --...

Panel of experts discusses women's health issues
Despite a modest attendance, five local women provided a wealth of information Tuesday on several health issues affecting women when they spoke at a panel discussion at SFA's Baker Patillo Student Center...

kasina And Horsesmouth Provide Insight Into Advisorsa Investment Behavior
Read the Original Article at Wall Street & Technology kasina and Horsesmouth teamed up to provide insight into advisors' investment behaviors, preferences for working with asset managers, and opinions on specific firms...

Business Wire - FAF Advisors, Inc., Announces Financial Positions for Closed-End Funds
April 15, 2009 -- MINNEAPOLIS -- FAF Advisors, Inc. today announced the financial positions for the following closed-end funds for the month of March 31,...

On the Scene
Twenty one Santa Clara Valley high school seniors and community college students will have smiling faces when they receive Chi Am Circle Scholarships totaling $31,000 on May 15 at an Awards Dinner May 15 at the China Stix Restaurant in Santa Clara...

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

Emulex Faces Broadcom's $764M Hostile Bid
A combination of the two companies would be well positioned for Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Broadcom says...

Women, Wisdom, & Wealth: Do you know where you are going?
Women, Wisdom, & Wealth: Do you know where you are going? By DARCIE GUERIN 9:46 p.m., Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Last weekend we finally made the time to take out our motor home out and headed to our favorite ocean spot over on the east coast...

The Burden You Don't Want to Carry
Railroads are accustomed to carrying heavy loads. Someday, North America's railroads will emerge from this downturn as the lean and efficient transporters they are; in the meantime, though, Fools may not wish to shoulder the sector's heavy burden...

Concerns about Macquarie bailout offer
Peter Cave hosts The World Today's lunch hour of current affairs, with background and debate from Australia and the world...

Bill Friday Returns to UNC-TV
Continuing his recovery from heart surgery in February, Dr. William Friday resumed filming his weekly television show this week...

Business Wire - Sorrento Pacific Financial Spotlights Its Environmental History with Paperless Financial Account Management System dataVISION in Time for Earth Day
April 15, 2009 -- Web-Based System Has Been Reducing Paper Usage Since CompanyâÂEURÂ(TM)s Inception SAN DIEGO -- In time for Earth Day...

Market Wire - MagIndustries Corp. 2008 Year-End Conference Call Notice
April 15, 2009 -- MagIndustries Corp. (TSX VENTURE: MAA) ("MagIndustries" or the "Company") announced today that the Company expects to release its Year-end 2008...

Business Wire - Nuveen Tradewinds Global All-Cap Fund Receives 5-Star Overall Morningstar Rating™
April 15, 2009 -- CHICAGO -- Nuveen Investments, a leading global provider of investment services to institutions and high-net-worth investors, today...

Jamaica's underdevelopment tied to inability to .
Jamaica needs to earn foreign exchange via export-led growth and abandon its policy of borrowing in order to play economic catch-up with Guyana and the rest of the region, writes financial analyst Dennis Chung in his new book - Charting Jamaica's Economic and Social Development...

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¦..

Stuart Whatley: Obama's Credit Card Dog Day Afternoon
At Thursday's meeting this week with President Obama to discuss controversial credit card practices, one hopes that card-issuer CEOs will receive hospitality of the stiff-backed chair variety, rather than, say, plush leather...

Dollars & $ense receives big honors
Baruch's Dollars & Sense magazine, written and designed by undergraduate and graduate students, was recently awarded its sixth Gold Crown award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for its 2008 issue...

State Assembly leaders award $551,000 in pay raises to staffers
Reporting from Sacramento -- State Assembly leaders have given pay raises totaling $551,000 to 136 staff members, even as tens of thousands of other state workers have had their salaries cut and California remains awash in red ink...

Business Wire - Gregory S. Raines is Named President of Atlantic Financial Group
April 15, 2009 -- RICHMOND, Va. -- Gregory S. Raines, a 25-year financial services industry veteran, has been named president of Atlantic Financial Group,...

Why banks won't lend
New Delhi: You can take a horse to water but can you make it drink? This is the question that the Reserve Bank of India has failed to answer in its Annual Policy Statement for 2009-10. In order to force banks to lend to entities other than itself, the RBI has reduced the reverse repo rate by 25 basis points to 3.25 per cent from 3.75 per cent...

Business Wire - Highbury Financial Inc. Elects Theodore M. Leary Jr. to Its Board of Directors
April 15, 2009 -- Board composed of a majority of independent directors Hoyt Ammidon Jr. named lead independent director DENVER --...

Trading Day: TSX stages recovery, led by Teck Cominco
The main Canadian stock index bounced back on Tuesday from a 311-point shellacking the day before, turning a triple-digit loss into a triple-digit gain...

Kazakh president's ex-prime economic advisor: RMB has a bright future:
China's currency RMB will play a more important role globally, said Kazakh president's former prime economic advisor on Tuesday...

SAAC raises $1,300 for American Cancer Society
Senior athletes pose on the stage of Foellinger Auditorium during the University of Illinois Student Athlete Advisory Committee Fashion Show and Silent Auction on Tuesday, April 21, 2009...

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¦..

Nexus enters Qatar market
DOHA: A new force in professional financial services was launched in Doha, with the unveiling of 'Nexus', a Middle East-initiated company, which is the region's largest independent financial advisor with strong plans for international growth...

Market Wire - Geneos Wealth Management to Provide Technology Platform for Leading Broker/Dealer
April 16, 2009 -- Gentech LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary ofDenver-based Geneos Wealth Management, Inc. providing technology solutionsto the financial and medical...

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¦..



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