Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 06/02/2010



Business Wire - CKx Confirms Receipt of Acquisition Proposal from Group Led by Simon Fuller
May 28, 2010 -- HASH(0x1f894d0) NEW YORK -- CKx, Inc. (NASDAQ: CKXE) confirmed that it received a proposal today from a group of...

Donald W. Layden, Jr. Elected to Online Resources Board of Directors
Online Resources Corporation , a leading provider of online financial services, today announced that long-time payments executive and attorney Donald W. Layden, Jr...

Manufacturing Close - Up - Virginia Commerce Bank Selects Infinex Investments
May 27, 2010 -- Virginia Commerce Bank has chosen Infinex Investments as its new broker-dealer to enhance its offerings of comprehensive investment...

Market Wire - Africa Oil to Apply for Listing on Nasdaq First North, Stockholm
May 28, 2010 -- Africa Oil Corp. (TSX VENTURE: AOI) ("Africa Oil" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it intends to apply for a...

NaiKun Wind Energy Group Inc.: NaiKun Wind Announces Executive Team Changes
NaiKun Wind Energy Group Inc. announced today that effective June 15, 2010, Paul Taylor, President & CEO, will be leaving NaiKun Wind and also resigning from the Board of Directors...

Evening Standard; London (UK) - Get it off your TXT
May 27, 2010 -- Bad day at work? Baffled by Boris's latest move? Text us your heartfelt and hilarious London thoughts Enter ESTEXTSfollowed by a...

Stretching Your Dollar: What your financial advisor won't tell you
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Kenneth Starr Gets Public Defender, Deemed Flight Risk
How the mighty have fallen. Kenneth Starr, financial advisor to the stars, was appointed a public defender this morning after his lawyer cited a conflict of interested and removed himself from the case...

MasterCard and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Provide Premier Offers and Promotions to MasterCard Cardholders
MasterCard Worldwide today announced a multi-year relationship with 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc...

Manufacturing Close - Up - Transamerica Retirement Services Appoints Linda Kurz as Regional VP
May 30, 2010 -- Transamerica Retirement Services has announced the hiring of Linda Kurz as regional vice president in the company's Southern Region....

Gloucestershire Echo, The - Dad strikes gold with a truffle find
May 27, 2010 -- A DAD-OF-TWO thought he had struck gold when he dug up 12 truffles. But despite the bounty totalling Pounds 75, Mark is...

J. Wayne Merck Joins Angelo, Gordon & Co.'s PE Group
J. Wayne Merck, the former president and CEO of K2 Inc., has joined Angelo, Gordon & Co...

Business is booming for local high school students
A A A The two groups topped off what FBLA advisor and Dundalk High business teacher Patrick Holt calls their a oebest year evera with a series of impressive victories at the MarylandA FBLA competition in Hunt Valley on March 23...

Making the Case for a Put Write ETF
Quite a while back I wrote a post or two about the S&P 500 Put Write Index , which is a fairly new index that is based on selling naked index puts along the lines of the S&P 500 Buy Write Index ...

Is a Liberal-NDP merger in the cards?
This brought to mind some experience I had researching the coming together of PC's and the Reform/Alliance some years ago...

Warren Buffett's Shameful Performance
Oh my God. I never thought i would ever say this, but Warren Buffett has turned into an evasive, disingenuous, bumbling buffoon...

Kagan Has Saudi, Bin Laden Money Ties
In a disturbing revelation for a Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan took millions of dollars from the Saudis as dean of Harvard Law School and a chunk of the money reportedly came from 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden...

High school still an option for Marco Island's Tract K
Tract K is back in play for a Marco Island high school. Proponents for a charter school are backing out of a partnership to open at the Greater Marco Island YMCA in August 2011...

When ETFs Cut Costs, Should You Bite?
The question they now face is whether the price cuts warrant a trade. On Tuesday, Old Mutual lowered the expense ratio, or the cost of owning a fund, for its GlobalShares FTSE Emerging Markets ETF to 0.25% from 0.39%. The move undercut Vanguard's Emerging Market ETF , which has an expense ratio of 0.27%. The price reduction also widened the gap ...

Accused Ponzi schemer to the stars Kenneth Starr too broke for lawyer
Kenneth Starr attends a media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho. A financial adviser to celebrities, Starr was arrested, Thursday, May 27, 2010, on charges that he carried out a $30 million fraud on his clients...

Octavian Bellu: "Romania has gymnastics potential"
Having accepted to rejoin the women's national gymnastics team along with Mariana Bitang after a five-year absence, Octavian Bellu stated that Romanian gymnastics continues to have potential although the results did not live up to expectations in recent years...

Buffett Expects 'Terrible Problem' for Municipal Debt
Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has been trimming its investment in municipal debt, predicted a "terrible problem" for the bonds in coming years...

New Haven Register - Progressions Salon of Woodbridge raised nearly [Derived Headline]
May 27, 2010 -- Progressions Salon of Woodbridge raised nearly $2,000 in October to support the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast...

Shanda Interactive And Hurray! Enter Into Asset Sale Agreement
Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, a leading interactive entertainment media company in China and Hurray! Holding Co., Ltd., a leader in online video portal operations, artist development, music production, wireless music distribution, and other wireless value-added services in China, announced that Shanda and Hurray! have entered into a ...

Market Wire - In Anticipation of Newest Acquisition, Twin Town Leasing Co. d/b/a Twin Air Calypso, AAVG Announces 25-Year Veteran of the Financial Industry as Newest Team Member
June 1, 2010 -- AvStar Aviation Group (PINKSHEETS: AAVG) proudly announces the addition of Bradley R. Hollingsworth C.P.A., C.I.S.A., C.I.S.P. to the AAVG...

Miami-area High School Students and Parents of College-Bound Teens.
College planning expert Peter "College Pete"A Ratzan will lead two workshops on financial aid's "loopholes and closely guarded secrets"A at two Miami-area high schools this month...

Citi assisting Pistons in sale of team
The Pistons have taken another step in the process of being sold. Citi Private Bank Sports Advisory has been hired as financial advisor in connection with the sale of Palace Sports and Entertainment, including the Pistons...

Telegraph - Herald; Dubuque, Iowa - tri-state business
May 29, 2010 -- SmartMoney Magazine ranked Edward Jones first in three survey categories: stock picking, brokerage statement and customer satisfaction. The...

Charting their path
Back when Hadar Borden was an undecided UB freshman in the late 1990s, she visited the Department of Geography on a whim, and her education took an unexpected fork...

Essex Chronicle; Chelmsford (UK) - Claims are out of this world
May 27, 2010 -- ARE these creatures you call "councillors" really of this world? They increase their expenses exponentially at the end of a year of mayhem...



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