Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 06/15/2010



Business Wire - Industry Mourns the Loss of Bill Strunk Long Time Leader & Advisor to Financial Institutions
June 14, 2010 -- William H, Bill Strunk Obituary HOUSTON -- The Financial Services industry lost a true leader on June 10, 2010 with the...

Business Wire - Amazon.com Ranked No.1 Financially Healthiest Retail Company for Second Year In a Row in Consensus Advisors’ Retailer Health Ratings™
June 14, 2010 -- Retailer Health Ratings

Aeropostale and Urban Outfitters Rank No. 2 and No. 3 ...


Charity to donate crab tanks to struggling fishermen
An international charity is partnering with state fishery and agricultural officials to donate special tanks to harvest soft-shell crabs to the struggling local seafood industry...

News Corp acquires eReader firm Skiff
News Corp. announced the acquisition of Skiff, a firm that focuses on the development of e-reading platforms...

Business Wire - Nuveen Santa Barbara International Equity Fund Now Open to Retail Investors
June 14, 2010 -- HASH(0x2a966a8df0) Fund Features Expertise of Nuveen Growth Equities Affiliate, Santa Barbara Asset Management ...

Carlos Mendez Joins Sandler O'Neill; Firm Creates Structured Finance Group
Sandler Oa Neill + Partners, L.P., a full-service investment banking firm specializing in financial services companies, today announced that Carlos Mendez has joined the firm to lead its newly created Structured Finance Group...

For An Industry With Good Intentions, Complexity Is The Killer
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Business Wire - U.S. Rare Earths, Inc. Announces Strategic Review
June 14, 2010 -- HASH(0x1f6f0e0) SALT LAKE CITY -- U.S. Rare Earths, Inc. (ÃâÅU.S. Rare Earths, Inc.Ãâ or the...

Get Into The Debt Collection Business
When times are tough there are always certain companies that thrive based on their business model...

AirPatrol Expands Its Commercial Advisory Board
AirPatrol Corporation, a leader in wireless threat management solutions, today made several appointments to its Commercial Advisory Board...

AAII Commentary
But the uncovering of his enormous and long-running Ponzi scheme, and the fraud committed by several other financial hucksters, highlight the importance of asking the right questions and doing your own due diligence before selecting an advisor or participating in an investment...

Monday's Trading Day: TSX sinks to finish flat after Greek debt downgrade
Gregory Thomas is a Financial Adviser and Certified Financial Planner with Raymond James Ltd...

Ooltewah Financial Advisor Sentenced In Fraud/Tax Case
Blount also admitted that he failed to report the proceeds from the theft of clients' funds on his federal income tax returns he filed for 2002 through 2004, and failed to file income tax returns for tax years 2005 and 2006...

Market Wire - Aura Bio Corp.: Tolao Energy Nigeria to Raise $10,000,000
June 14, 2010 -- Aura Bio Corp. ("Aura") (OTCBB: AUBC), is pleased to announce that its partner, Tolao Energy Nigeria ("Tolao"), intends to...

Market Wire - ByAllAccounts Offers Enhanced Account Aggregation to Morningstar Principia CAMS Users
June 14, 2010 -- ByAllAccounts, Inc., the financial advisors' choice for account aggregation, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with...

Business Wire - FAF Advisors, Inc. Announces Financial Positions for Closed-End Funds
June 14, 2010 -- HASH(0x2a966a68e0) MINNEAPOLIS -- FAF Advisors, Inc. today announced the financial positions for the following closed-end...

Manufacturing Close - Up - King Consolidated Names J. Robert Ransone as EVP/COO
June 15, 2010 -- King Consolidated, Inc., a privately-held Dallas based sponsor of investment grade oil and gas portfolios, announced that J. Robert Ransone...

S3 Investment Company Comments on Redwood Capital Client's Graduation to the TSX Exchange
S3Investment Company, Inc. and its wholly owned Redwood Capital subsidiary today commented on the recent graduation of Redwood Capital client Boyuan Construction Group, Inc...

In the Fight for Independence, Loyalists Are Gaining Ground
Financial advisors are starting to turn their backs on the idea of going independent and are instead favoring the benefits of working at wirehouses, according to a survey conducted by the Boston-based consultancy Aite Group...

Stonegate Agricom Appoints Vice Presidents of Exploration and Investor Relations
"We are pleased to have attracted Michelle and Wayne to assume important roles in the future development of the Company...

Todd Wilson Joins Augme Technologies Board of Directors
Augme Technologies, Inc. , a leading developer and provider of patented and innovative smart mobile technology, today announced that Todd Wilson has joined the board of directors as an independent director...

Telegraph - Herald; Dubuque, Iowa - business people
June 13, 2010 -- Jeff Burds, CPA, of Burds & Kunz, P.C., doing business as B&K Advisors, LLC of St. Louis, has been awarded the Leader's Club Award from...

J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Despite an Increase in Overall.
The study finds that overall satisfaction with full service investment firms averages 735 on a 1,000-point scale, increasing by 42 points from 693 in 2009...

Changes to credit reporting take effect July 1
Everyone who has borrowed and repaid a loan, credit card account or other debt has a credit history...

Colette Rabbat Taylor Joins Grail Partners
Grail Partners LLC, a merchant bank specializing in financial services and financial technology companies, announced today that Colette Rabbat Taylor has become its latest Partner...

Major Brokerage Platforms Offer Nile Pan Africa Fund
Nile Capital Management, LLC, announced the availability of the Nile Pan Africa Fund on four major brokerage platforms today...

Hallmark Human Resources to Become a Public Company Through Share Exchange with Great Spirits, Inc.
Great Spirits, Inc. , today announced that it has entered into a definitive share exchange and reorganization agreement to acquire the outstanding capital stock of Hallmark Human Resources, Inc., a Granbury, Texas-based professional employer organization ...

For Wind Investment, Look To Great Britain and China
The US wind power industry is facing huge problems that have led analysts to forecast a 60 percent drop in installations this year...

Manufacturing Close - Up - Blue Sphere Corp. Set to be Listed on Standard & Poor's Market
June 15, 2010 -- Blue Sphere Corp., a company in the Cleantech sector as an Emission Reduction project integrator, announced that its company information will...

AMRI Acquires Hyaluron Inc.
AMRI today announced the acquisition of Hyaluron Inc., expanding AMRIa s contract manufacturing capabilities to include cGMP manufacturing and sterile filling of parenteral drugs to the biopharmaceutical industry...



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