Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 08/01/2009



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 EURŠ..

Touchstone Investments Appoints New Head of Mutual Fund Business
Touchstone Investments, a member of Western & Southern Financial Group, announced today that Steven M. Graziano will join the company as president effective Monday, Aug...

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Business Wire - Yasheng ECO-Trade Corporation Engages Cukierman Investment House Firm
July 29, 2009 -- HASH(0x1ee0740) BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Yasheng ECO-Trade Corporation (OTCBB:YASH), has signed a Financial Advisor Engagement...

PR Newswire - China XD Plastics to be Covered by Standard & Poor's Market Access Coverage
July 30, 2009 -- HARBIN, China, July 30 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China XD Plastics Company Ltd. ("China XD Plastics" or the "Company"), (BULLETIN BOARD:...

Countrywide Offered Politicians Special Deals
At the height of the subprime boom, perhaps nobody gave out more risky loans than Countrywide Financial...

City increases fees for industries affecting treatment plant
Daniel Bryan Webster pleaded guilty to marijuana conspiracy charges on Monday. Webster, 41, of Stanton, MO, pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to possession with intent to distribute over 100 kilograms of marijuana, twelve felony counts of structuring financial transactions to evade reporting requirements, and one criminal forfeiture ...

I know there has been some concern about DeShawn Stevenson, who had back surgery in March and.
I know there has been some concern about DeShawn Stevenson, who had back surgery in March and hasn't played basketball since late January...

NovaGold Resources Inc.: NovaGold Provides Update on New Galore Creek Project Advisors
EURŠ financial advisor to assist the Company in securing financing for its Galore Creek copper-gold-silver project in northwestern British Columbia EURŠ..

CBS Buries Democrat Label in Chris Dodd/Kent Conrad Countrywide Scandal Story
On Fridaya TMs CBS Evening News, correspondent Sharyl Attkisson filed a report recounting mortgage company Countrywide Financiala TMsA history of offering special deals on loans to government officials a ' including figures with connections to President Clinton, President Bush, and President Obama...

Conti chief spurns pay-off deal from Schaeffler family
The family that controls Schaeffler, the German engineering group, has offered to finance a 10m pay-off to remove the chief executive of Continental, it emerged yesterday, as the corporate battle between two of Europe's largest car parts suppliers took a bizarre twist that has caused outrage among German investors...

Not enough incentives
While the government is offering subsidy and builders are constructing affordable houses, one should still wait...

Investment & Financial Advisor / Stock Broker
Candidates should have a book of business (or a prior track record in building one quickly, i.e., 3-6 months...

Somerset Mortgage Lenders Named #1 Bank on Twitter by Computer Weekly
"We are thrilled to be recognized not only as a leader in the world of direct mortgage lending, but in effectively marketing our services and products online, as well" remarked Gregg Marcus, Executive Director, Somerset Mortgage Lenders...

Business Wire - First Allied Launches Guided Portfolio Solutions
July 31, 2009 -- HASH(0x21ab230) GPS Delivers Robust Capabilities and Streamlined Workflows Built on the Industry Leading FolioDynamix Platform...

Governor makes executive appointments
Gov. Sonny Perdue announced today the following executive appointments. Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Mary Burns, M.D., 46, Atlanta - Burns is engaged in private practice and serves as a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Emory University...

NexTalk Appoints Jeff Webber and Bill Shiebler to Board of Directors, Names Shiebler Chairman
NexTalk, Inc., the leader in deaf-accessible enterprise telecommunication solutions, has announced that Jeffrey T. Webber and William N. Shiebler have joined President and CEO Todd Wakefield on the company's board of directors, and that Mr...

Business Wire - Merriman Curhan Ford Named as Financial Advisor in FUQI International’s Public Follow-on Offering
July 31, 2009 -- HASH(0x2a966adf70) SAN FRANCISCO -- Merriman Curhan Ford Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:MERR) was named today as a financial advisor in...

Market Wire - Statement by the Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of National Revenue and Minister of State (Agriculture and Agri-Food)
July 31, 2009 -- The Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of National Revenue and Minister of State (Agriculture and Agri-Food), issued the following...

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 EURŠ..

PR Newswire - Synaptics Reports Record Revenue and Profit for Fiscal 2009; Announces CEO Transition
July 30, 2009 -- SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Synaptics , a leading developer of human interface solutions for mobile computing,...

Checking out the currency options
DURING the early days of international bicycle touring, cyclists would hide coins and valuables in the tubing of their bicycle frames to evade robbers...

Industry Pushes Back on SEC's Custody Rule Proposal
Financial planning practitioners laud the SEC's effort to close the loopholes that enabled Bernard L. Madoff to perpetrate his long-running fraud on investors...

Boston Properties Execs' $46 Million Sale
The Chairman and CEO sold nearly 900,000 shares of the REIT. LOWER VACANCY RATES HELPED to propel Boston Properties to a better-than-expected second quarter last week, but two executives are moving their money out of the stock, selling more than $46 million in the real-estate investment trust's shares...

Business Wire - Schwab Survey Finds a Majority of Investors Are Not Monitoring or Adjusting Their Mutual Fund Portfolios
July 31, 2009 -- HASH(0x21b2710) SAN FRANCISCO -- A recent Charles Schwab survey found that just 4 out of 10 (39 percent) mutual fund investors...

BIBD awards $100K to Quarterly Wish winner
YAM Pg Anak Khairul Khalil presenting the $100,000 BIBD Wish award to Hj Ismadey bin Hj Hussin...

Market Wire - Hillsborough Resources Provides Action Update to Shareholders
July 31, 2009 -- Hillsborough Resources Limited (TSX: HLB) ("Hillsborough" or the "Corporation") provides an update to shareholders on action taken by the Special...

Business Wire - Guggenheim Partners to Acquire Claymore Group
July 31, 2009 -- HASH(0x212dfd0) Acquisition includes all Claymore-associated entities: Claymore Securities, Claymore Advisors and Claymore...

McNamara remembered as brilliant, troubled patriot
Date : Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:15:43 PDT McNamara remembered as brilliant, troubled patriot Brisbane Times July 7, 2009 By Michael Mathes A 1960s White House colleague, US diplomats and the maker of an Oscar-winning documentary about Robert McNamara remembered the US defense secretary as a patriot who agonized and eventually repented over his role as ...

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

5 Cold Stocks Heating Up
When a company's share price is lower than the mercury in a thermometer in North Dakota in February, investors tend to give it the cold shoulder...

Market Wire - Senator Bennett and Senator Daschle to Address Infocast's Annual Healthcare Deal Making Summit in Nashville
July 31, 2009 -- Senator Robert F. Bennett (R-UT) and formerSenate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle (D-SD) will address Infocast'sHealthcare Deal Making Summit,...

D.C. Power Players Get Sweetheart Loans
At the height of the subprime boom, perhaps nobody gave out more risky loans than Countrywide Financial...

Saving for Retirement Especially Vital for Women
Despite much progress in the last decade, American women executives still earn only two-thirds as much as men, according to a study by the Korn/Ferry International executive search firm and the University of California-Los Angeles...



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