Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 07/16/2010



Market Wire - BMO Investments Inc. Announces Portfolio Management Change
July 14, 2010 -- BMO Investments Inc. (TSX: BMO)(NYSE: BMO) announced today that the portfolio manager for BMO Guardian Global Small Cap Fund will change....

Alliance reaches out to seniors
In 2006, Diana Scheel, an independent financial consultant, kept crossing paths with Karen Fulghum, an independent Realtor with Remax, as they both sought to help elderly clients with issues unique to that age group...

Investing responsibly
As a followup to the previous two articles on socially responsible investing, this week's article discusses the approaches that are commonly used...

Business Wire - Investment Advisory Firm Offers Strategies to Build and Protect Capital in the “New Normal” Volatile Market
July 13, 2010 -- HASH(0x2a966a7810) Relaunched 361ÃÂ Capital Offers Innovative ETF Portfolios to Serve Financial Advisors and...

People on the Move: Spotlight on Bruce Snell
Bruce K. Snell, a homegrown South Carolinian, is an executive with a proven reputation for growing a business and supervising dozens of productive advisors...

Global Credit Markets May Be At A Turning Point, Report Says
NEW YORK July 15, 2010--Though the recession may officially have ended sometime in the summer of 2009, most sectors continue to feel its ripple effects, said an article published today by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services...

Insurance Tips from an Insurance Professional
Insurance is a robust subject, with many caveats. This is the reason that insurance professionals must take continuing education classes to acquire credits to renew their insurance licenses each year...

BP And Verenium Announce Pivotal Biofuels Agreement
Verenium to receive $98.3 million and retain its commercial enzyme business including validated technology platform to apply to all business segments including biofuels...

Business Wire - Brinker Capital to Launch One of the Investment Industry’s First Absolute Return Portfolios in Separately Managed Account Format
July 12, 2010 -- HASH(0x2a966a7da0)

The Brinker Capital Crystal Strategy I, a highly diversified tactical ...


Business Wire - Alcon Independent Director Committee Announces Meeting with Minority Shareholders
July 14, 2010 -- HASH(0x1f116a0) HUENENBERG, Switzerland -- The Alcon Independent Director Committee (the ÃâÅIDCÃâÂ) announced...

People's Bank acquires Mass. and N.Y. lenders
Bridgeport-based People's United Bank made a splash Thursday, announcing the acquisition of two separate banks in New York and Massachusetts, which will add nearly $3 billion in assets to the banking company...

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A substantial number of the tax cuts introduced under the last presidential administration are heading toward expiration at year end...

Government Policies Pushing Towards Depression
Despite several quarters of rising GDP, and the upbeat exertions of Administration spokespeople, the National Bureau of Economic Research has yet to announce the recession is over...

PFP News
The Securities and Exchange Commission has censured Gilman Ciocia and its Prime Capital Services unit for marketing, offering and selling variable annuities that were unsuitable investments for elderly customers...

Despite "rift," U.S., Israel talking Iran attack
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 6, 2010...

South Jersey residents promoted
Joseph P. Kenney Jr., of West Deptford, has been named loan review officer II in the Fulton Financial Corporation's Loan Review Department...

Oppenheimer Lures Damrow with Boutique Culture
Oppenheimer & Co.'s culture has won the company a lot of admiration from financial advisors, and it also may have helped it score a considerable prize from one of the wirehouses...

DNA : Daily News & Analysis; Mumbai - Govt mulls Rs 10,000 crore VC fund for pharma
July 13, 2010 -- In an attempt to push research in the pharmaceutical sector, the government is planning to set up a Rs 10,000 crore venture capital (VC) fund to...

NBTY acquired in $3.8 billion deal
RONKONKOMA, N.Y. NBTY announced Thursday morning its acquisition by the Carlyle Group with the execution of a definitive merger agreement valued at $3.8 billion...

Honest Money Gold and Silver Report: Market Wrap Week Ending 7/09/10
For the last few weeks I have shown gold constructing negative divergences in both its relative strength indicator and in its moving average convergence/divergence indicators...

No one right way in EMS
Editor's note: This article is in response to the story, " Conn. town deciding on paramedic service that offers fly cars ." Officials say a Conn...

Market Wire - Investment Advisors International Names Horizon Investments, LLC as Newest Money Manager
July 14, 2010 -- Investment Advisors International, Inc. (IAI), the affiliate investment advisory firm of World Financial Group, Inc. ( World Financial Group...

Business Wire - Jefferies Asset Management to Advise Commodity Strategy Fund
July 12, 2010 -- HASH(0x2a966aa610) NEW YORK -- Jefferies today announced the launch of the Jefferies Asset Management Commodity Strategy...

Obama talks green jobs with Bill Clinton
The Washington press corps that used to bash Bill Clinton reflexively is suddenly fixated on a different kind of narrative: the highly popular former president as political savior for the current president and his endangered congressional majority...

Business Wire - The Hartford Mutual Funds Reduces Fees on 36 Funds, including Institutional, Retirement and Retail Share Classes
July 14, 2010 -- The Hartford Mutual Funds cuts fees across institutional, retirement and retail share classes. Lower fees aim to make funds more...

San West Inc. (OTCBB: SNWT) is Today's Spotlight Stock on AtomicPennyStocks.com
Your comprehensive guide to penny stock investing. With the markets growing increasingly volatile - seemingly by the day a ' and investor sentiment changing frequently, ita TMs more important now than ever to stay on top of the key trends! July 15, 2010 - AtomicPennyStocks.com issued a trade alert this morning on San West Inc...

OC Plans Capital Projects With Fed Program Help
Finance Administrator Martha Bennett Lucey is being credited with finding a way for the town to save a substantial amount of money as it moves forward with plans to improve its infrastructure and readies some big projects to the tune of $18 million...

Al Bawaba - Abdullah A.M. Al-Khodari Sons Company appoints GIB Financial
July 13, 2010 -- Riyadh-based GIB Financial Services (GIBFS), a subsidiary of Gulf International Bank (GIB), has been appointed as financial advisor, lead...

Air Lease Corporation, the New Global Aviation Venture, Is Ready for.
Air Lease Corporation , a new aircraft leasing company being launched by industry pioneer Steven Udvar-Hazy and longtime aviation executive John L. Plueger, has secured initial financing of $3.3 billion, and aircraft acquisitions are already underway...

Business Wire - EISI Unveils the Latest in Intelligent Financial Planning Software
July 12, 2010 -- Emerging Information Systems Inc. (EISI), developer of NaviPlan and Profiles financial planning software, has launched a new financial planning...



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