Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 05/19/2010



Douglas Wilson Companies Launches New Forensic and Litigation Support Division
Problem resolution expert Douglas Wilson Companies has appointed Thomas C. Hebrank as Senior Managing Director of the firma s new Forensic and Litigation Support Division...

Business Wire - JNBA Financial Advisors Named Finalist in 2010 Minnesota Business Ethics Award™
May 17, 2010 -- JNBA Financial Advisors has been named a finalist for the 2010 Minnesota Business Ethics Award recognizing Minnesota businesses that have...

First Marblehead Announces Changes to Board of Directors
Additionally, the Board of Directors elected Daniel Meyers, the Company's Chief Executive Officer and President, to serve as Chairman of the Board...

Finance Wire - Michael Yoshikami, Founder, YCMNET
May 16, 2010 -- (This is not a legal transcript. Bloomberg LP cannot guarantee its accuracy.) MICHAEL YOSHIKAMI, FOUNDER OF YCMNET, TALKS TO SUSAN LI...

Wireless News - InvestmentPitch.com Adds Video Content for Li-ion Motors
May 17, 2010 -- InvestmentPitch.com, operator of InvestmentPitch.com, where investors have free access to professionally produced video content from public...

Risk Assets: Don't Give Up Completely
There was some interesting reading yesterday that I think continues on the conversation we've been having this week about ETF portfolio construction and the extent to which portfolio construction might evolve...

Reward offered in eagle shooting
Officials are offering up to a $2,500 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for illegally shooting a bald eagle in La Conner earlier this month...

How Stanford is worse than Madoff
If I ask you who the worst hedge fund fraudster is in the world, there's only one name that will spring to mind...

$1 Million Isn't Enough
You'd think that retiring with a million bucks to your name would be enough to last you all through a comfortable retirement...

American Airlines' flight attendants eye strike
American Airlines' Association of Professional Flight Attendants have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike against the company, union officers said Wednesday...

I-5 lanes reopen after crash near Arlington
All lanes of northbound Interstate 5 have reopened near Arlington following a serious collision earlier this afternoon involving a motorcycle and a construction vehicle...

10 Dividend Stocks for the Next Decade and Beyond
Following two roller-coaster markets over the past decade, it's natural for investors to seek more stable and less stressful stock strategies...

ASMI investors to vote on possible break-up debate
Shareholders of Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASM International NV will vote on Thursday whether to start a debate about a potential break-up of the group...

Business Wire - Scout Investment Advisor’s Jim Moffett to Speak at National Association of Personal Financial Advisors Conference
May 17, 2010 -- Scout Investment Advisorâۉ„¢s Jim Moffett to Speak at National Association of Personal Financial Advisors Conference

Consumer inflation vanishes, a boon for borrowers
Inflation has essentially disappeared, and that gives the Federal Reserve more room to keep interest rates at record lows...

Analyst Wire - Michael Yoshikami, Founder, YCMNET
May 16, 2010 -- (This is not a legal transcript. Bloomberg LP cannot guarantee its accuracy.) MICHAEL YOSHIKAMI, FOUNDER OF YCMNET, TALKS TO SUSAN LI...

St. Jude Medical to Acquire LightLab Imaging
Acquisition of Optical Coherence Tomography technology provides St. Jude Medical with product platform to compete in and potentially expand $500 million coronary imaging market ST...

'Complex Prime' Is New Subprime for Struggling U.K. Borrowers
U.K. mortgage lenders are offering loans to "almost prime" and "complex prime" borrowers with "minor historic credit issues" who may have experienced financial "blips." They don't use the word subprime...

Manufacturing Close - Up - Grid Petroleum Begins Financial Drawdown for Development Plan in
May 17, 2010 -- Grid Petroleum Corp. announced an initial drawdown of $200,000 US Dollars from the recently executed financial agreement of $5-7.5 million US...

Tesoro blast investigation slow but on pace
Investigators have begun their piece-by-piece probe of what went wrong at the Anacortes Tesoro Refinery on April 2 when an explosion and fire killed seven employees...

Business Wire - FAF Advisors, Inc. Announces Financial Positions for Closed-End Funds
May 17, 2010 -- HASH(0x2a966a14d0) MINNEAPOLIS -- FAF Advisors, Inc. today announced the financial positions for the following closed-end...

Market Wire - Ogone SA/NV Teams With Growth Equity Investor Summit Partners
May 17, 2010 -- Ogone SA/NV, one of Europe's leading service providers specializing in the processing of online payments, announced today that growth...

All Fingers and Toes
On May 28, 2010, Conversations with American Heroes at the Watering Hole will feature a conversation with Sergeant Greg Doyle, Upland Police Department about his newest book, The Clarion Call of Christ...

B.C. Rail devalued in order to sell, court hears
The British Columbia government concocted a conspiracy to devalue a provincially owned railway in order to justify its sale, jurors at a political corruption trial heard on Wednesday...

Business Wire - Interactive Data Teams with InvestEdge to Provide Wealth Managers with Customized Financial Data
May 18, 2010 -- Interactive Data will provide a wide range of financial data and analytical tools to InvestEdge, Inc., a leading provider of wealth management...

MasterCard Reaches Settlement with Heartland Payment Systems to.
MasterCard Worldwide today announced it has reached a settlement with Heartland Payment Systems to resolve claims by MasterCard and its issuers in connection with Heartlanda s previously announced data security breach...

Wednesdaya s Prep Scoreboard
Softball Anacortes vs. Archbishop Murphy at Sedro-Woolley, 4 p.m. Burlington-Edison vs...

Road closures scheduled Thursday in Mount Vernon
Sections of Fulton and Lawrence streets and Highland Avenue in Mount Vernon will be closed Thursday morning while crews fix potholes...

Volcker: I Want the Euro to Survive
A former chairman of the Federal Reserve said Europe will need years to restore economic balance, but he's rooting for both the euro and European economic integration to survive...

CEO Wire - Michael Yoshikami, Founder, YCMNET
May 16, 2010 -- (This is not a legal transcript. Bloomberg LP cannot guarantee its accuracy.) MICHAEL YOSHIKAMI, FOUNDER OF YCMNET, TALKS TO SUSAN LI...



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