Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 08/29/2009

Relationship Rehab, Washington-Style
That's not a trick question. Harold Evensky, a Florida-based investment advisor, points to "feel good" ads run by one brokerage house in recent years showing a broker at the graduation of a client's daughter...

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

10 Dividend Stocks for the Next Decade and Beyond
Following the worst stock market year since the Great Depression, it's natural for investors to seek more stable and less stressful stock strategies...

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 EUR¦..

Preaching the Gospel of Momentum
QUANTITATIVE INVESTMENT STRATEGIES ARE SHROUDED in mystery. Most investors don't even try to understand them, and many practitioners won't discuss them, fearing that doing so could cost them their competitive edge...

Drip, Dripping Away
AMERICA SLURPS DOWN NEARLY A QUARTER OF the oil consumed globally each year, far more than any other nation...

Business Wire - Blackbaud Expands Commitment to Community Foundations
August 27, 2009 -- HASH(0x2a966aeb70) Announces new customers, event participation, partner program expansion, and customer success ...

Is This Man's Ship Coming In?
PETER ROSE, THE CEO OF EXPEDITORS INTERNATIONAL, rarely misses an opportunity to crack wise...

Game-Changing Hero Is Poised to Rule
IT'S A GAME THAT HAS PRACTICALLY BECOME THE national pastime in South Korea. Professional players earn six-figure salaries and enjoy the benefits of hefty sponsorships from big corporations and the Korean Air Force...

Business Wire - Janus Announces Changes to Distribution Structure
August 28, 2009 -- HASH(0x1ec11c0) Dominic Martellaro to Leave Firm in February 2010; Janus to Streamline Distribution under Robin Beery and Dan...

Gov. Crist names advisor to Senate post
Gov. Charlie Crist is giving Florida a preview of what he'd be like as a senator by picking his former chief of staff to fill the remainder of Republican Sen...

Still No Port in This Storm
WALL STREET HAS BEEN BETTING ON FINANCIAL turnarounds, as shares of companies like Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Citigroup and American International Group surge after being written off by the investment community just a few months ago...

PM dismisses Pokhran II speculations; asks BJP to settle down
Barmer Apparently not wanting to wade into problems of BJP, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that what was happening in that party was not good and felt the controversies over Kandahar and Pokhran-II were needless...

Teaming Up to Battle Ericsson?
WHAT WILL BE THE NEXT BIG DEAL IN telephone networking gear? Ericsson's deft acquisition of certain Nortel infrastructure businesses shored up its position as the No...

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 EUR¦..

Sometimes a Great Notion
IN FOOTBALL, A HUDDLE TRADITIONALLY CONSISTS of the players forming a circle around the quarterback, their bodies leaning forward, their heads bent toward him and their butts pointing at the rest of the world...

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

Business Wire - Fitch Rates Hinsdale, Illinois's GOs 'AAA'; Outlook Negative
August 27, 2009 -- HASH(0x2a966aedd0) NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AAA' rating to the Village of Hinsdale, Illinois's approximately...

How You Can Get Rich With 4 Dumb Mistakes
I've written a lot of stupid things over the years. It's true. I've been with The Motley Fool since 1995, and I'm closing in on a whopping 10,000 articles...

GHF Group Expands Hedge Fund Managed Accounts Offering
GHF Group Managed Accounts are fast becoming a major component of client's portfolios...

Pulp Friction
VARYING ESTIMATES OF THE SIZE OF THE FLORIDA orange crop have muddled the forecast for frozen concentrated orange-juice prices, leaving traders to see the glass half-empty. ICE Futures U.S. juice prices still have not recovered from their plummet since Aug...

Ratings With a Twist
LAST OCTOBER, AS CONGRESS HELD HEARINGS aimed at finding the causes of the financial meltdown, Raymond W. McDaniel Jr., Moody's CEO, testified before a House committee...

Surprise! Labor Stats Really Aren't Surprising
IS THE ECONOMY IN UNCHARTED WATERS, SAILING AGAINST the current without a compass? Not really -- but much that has been said and written about the labor markets leaves that impression...

Watch Their Language
ANYONE WHO HAS SLOGGED THROUGH THE legalese of a thick Securities and Exchange Commission filing knows the devil is often in the footnotes or the appendix...

Market Wire - BenchmarkJournal.com Free Analyst Review for ACN, CHL, L, AGN, BA and AMX
August 28, 2009 -- Benchmark Journal brings independent company andsector research together, utilizing top financial advisors and investmenttactics to provide you...

Market Wire - Crystal River Announces Formation of Special Committee to Review Strategic Alternatives, Resignation of Chief Executive Officer and Commencement of Negotiations to Restructure Indebtedness
August 28, 2009 -- Crystal River Capital, Inc. (OTCBB: CYRV), a specialty finance REIT, today announced that its Board of Directors has formed a Special Committee...

Always go to the source
If you find yourself in the position of needing to file for unemployment insurance from the state of Texas, be sure you go to the Texas Workforce Commission page to do it...

Britain reassures Pakistan 1.08 million dollars as humanitarian aid
London, Aug.29 : Britain has reassured Pakistan to provide it 1.08 million dollars as humanitarian aid to help the troubled nation stabilise and counter insurgency in its lawless trouble areas...

Market Wire - BenchmarkJournal.com Free Analyst Review for JDSU, CIEN, ILMN, KLAC, UMPQ and ESLR
August 27, 2009 -- Benchmark Journal brings independent company andsector research together, utilizing top financial advisors and investmenttactics to provide you...

Market Wire - BenchmarkJournal.com Free Analyst Review for PVH, COH, AMT, CRM, CIM and APC
August 28, 2009 -- Benchmark Journal brings independent company andsector research together, utilizing top financial advisors and investmenttactics to provide you...

Business Wire - Scout Investment Advisors Hires Benjamin Wiesenfeld as Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Legal Counsel
August 27, 2009 -- HASH(0x2a966aef70) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Scout Investment Advisors, Inc., a subsidiary of UMB Financial Corporation, announces the...

Market Wire - BenchmarkJournal.com Free Analyst Review for RHT, BRCD, PWRD, CMCSA, SAPE and RMBS
August 28, 2009 -- Benchmark Journal brings independent company andsector research together, utilizing top financial advisors and investmenttactics to provide you...

Small Wonders
THE EPIC TRAVAILS OF BIG FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS over the past year have been a windfall for America's small, independent investment advisors...

Business Wire - Charles Schwab Outlines Fundamentals for Investment Advisor Independence
August 27, 2009 -- HASH(0x2a966b1d60) SAN FRANCISCO -- A persistent undercurrent of uncertainty at the full-service wirehouse brokerage firms has...

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