Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 12/10/2009



Green profits from property
The financial returns from property portfolios are directly related to environmental performance...

Market Wire - Roger B. Palley Joins First Foundation as Managing Director of Equity Investments
December 1, 2009 -- Roger B. Palley brings experience and acumenhoned by 45 years in the investment business to First Foundation , a20-year-old financial...

Stimu-loss for words; bunch of clowns getting grants
The feds spent stimulus billions on "silly" projects. The dubious projects were unearthed by Sens...

Stock Watch: InvestorSoup.com Issues Market Alert for Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.
InvestorSoup.com announces an investment report featuring Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc...

Facet Biotech Corporation: Facet Biotech's Board of Directors.
Facet Biotech Corporation announced today that its board of directors has unanimously recommended that its stockholders not tender their shares into, and reject the unsolicited, revised, conditional tender offer from Biogen Idec Inc...

The Media's Big Food Drive: Laurentian Bank employees take up the.
In addition to the food and fund drive taking place in the Bank's 156 branches from December 1 to 29, 2009, more than 55 collection points are to be set up in the province's streets this upcoming December 10 ...

Affluent Investors Sticking With Their Primary Advisors Though.
Despite the market declines that high net worth investors suffered since 2008, those that have financial advisors will continue to heed their advice even more closely, while those that do not have no plans to tap financial advisory expertise in the future, a new study reveals...

U.S. Newswire - SEI Advisor Network Survey Finds Fiduciary Standard Widely Supported
December 1, 2009 -- To: BUSINESS EDITORS Contact: Company Contact, Dana Grosser of SEI, +1-610-676-2459, dgrosser@seic.com; or Media Contact, Daniel Black of...

Business Wire - North Pointe Investment Partners Adds To Its Expertise
December 1, 2009 -- HASH(0x1ee7300) Advisors Henry Greenberg and Kathy Cataldo join premier Worcester wealth management firm ...

Facet Biotech's Board of Directors Unanimously Rejects Biogen Idec's.
Facet Biotech Corporation announced today that its board of directors has unanimously recommended that its stockholders not tender their shares into, and reject the unsolicited, revised, conditional tender offer from Biogen Idec Inc...

Cut Telecom, Mobility, and Network Costs Quickly
In 2009, CFOs and CIOs had to drastically reduce telecom, mobility, and network costs...

Special team to tackle Lancashire police officer a corruption threata in recession
A POLICE unit is to be set up because of fears that recession-hit officers in Lancashire face a a reala threat of corruption...

PR Newswire - Barron's Again Names The Colony Group's CEO as One of America's Top Independent Financial Advisors
December 1, 2009 -- BOSTON, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- In its annual list of "The Top 100 Independent Investment Advisors," Barron's magazine ranked The Colony Group's...

A light green pre-budget report
Taxing labour rather than pollution makes no sense a ' the chancellor should have raised green taxes and scrapped Trident The pre-budget report included some good climate measures, but nothing dramatic...

Northville Business Briefs
New IT firm offers flat-rate billing and green processes Small and mid-sized business owners have a new option for IT services and it isn't your typical IT company...

Market Wire - Titan Energy Worldwide Retains Strategic Growth as Its Global Investor Relations Advisor
December 1, 2009 -- Titan Energy Worldwide, Inc. (OTCBB: TEWI), aleader in distributed power generation products and intelligent energymanagement services, announced...

PR Newswire - OppenheimerFunds Retirement Services Announces Enhancements Targeted to Participants, Plan Sponsors and Financial Advisors
December 1, 2009 -- NEW YORK, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- OppenheimerFunds Retirement Services today announced new resources intended to help plan participants, plan...

PR Newswire - John Hancock Life Insurance Announces Distribution Relationship With Edward Jones
December 1, 2009 -- Edward Jones Clients To Have Access To Broad Range Of Competitive John Hancock Life Insurance Products And Services BOSTON, Dec. 1...

Sloan Wealth Management: End of the Year Triggers Emotional Desire to Review Investment Strategies
As the calendar closes in on the end of the year, many investors are wondering both, "What happened?" and "What should I do next?" For Rick Lear, vice president of Sloan Wealth Management, these sorts of questions indicate the need for more communication throughout the year between a client and his or her investment advisor, as well as a long-term ...

Why This Stock Is a Winner
If you could wave a magic wand and bestow just one characteristic on all of your investments, what would it be? I began thinking about this after reading Tom Gardner's " A 25-Bagger in Five Years ," in which he identified three things that give a company the chance to achieve outsized gains over the years -- like 25-baggers that turn $5,000 into ...

Bermuda Concludes Tax Information Agreement with Belgium
Bermuda's Minister of Finance, the Hon. Paula A. Cox, announced that Bermuda had concluded negotiations of a bilateral agreement with Belgium that provide for a full exchange of information on criminal and civil tax matters between Bermuda and the Kingdom of Belgium...

Novi Business Briefs
New plug-and-play wireless solution Optimum Hearing Care in Novi is offering a new system of innovative wireless connectivity solutions that is enabling people with hearing loss to experience more natural personal communication and more freedom...

Business Wire - CFN Services Joins Switch and Data’s GeoReachSM Partnership to Provide Low-latency Exchange Interconnection Solutions in Metro New York and Toronto
December 1, 2009 -- HASH(0x2a966aba60) TAMPA, Fla. -- Switch and Data (NASDAQ: SDXC), a leading provider of network-neutral data center and Internet...

$20M slap in pension con
David Leuschen, founder of Riverstone Holdings, will avoid further legal problems by paying $20M restitution in a corruption scandal with state pension funds...

New posts: Central Bank. Photo: Bloomberg News
The Central Bank has said it created three new posts with responsibility for enforcement, markets supervision, and policy and risk as part of an overhaul of its regulatory structure...

Market Wire - Cisco CIO Joins Apptio's Board of Directors as Strategic Advisor
December 1, 2009 -- Apptio, the leading provider of on-demand ITFinancial Management (ITFM) software, today announced the addition of CiscoSystems Senior Vice...

Funds should serve clients, not advisors
The true value of financial advice, it appears, is in the eye of the beholder. Since last week's column on the hybrid PowerShares Funds, my blog and email in-basket have been burning up from the suggestion advisors are "spoiled" by trailer fees of 1%. Last month, Invesco Trimark unveiled its Powershares Funds, which are based on exchange-traded ...

Market Wire - Al Frank Asset Management Acquires Tactical ETF Portfolios
December 1, 2009 -- Al Frank Asset Management (AFAM), one ofthe oldest, private boutique money managers in the country, is pleased toannounce today that it has...

Capgemini tops outsourcing customer satisfaction league
A study of 160 organisations, representing A 10bn per annum of IT outsourcing contracts, has rated Capgemini and Cognizant as the service providers with the highest level of customer satisfaction...

Sullivan & Cromwell Plans for New Chairman
Sullivan & Cromwell on Wednesday announced a changing of the guard, with plans for H. Rodgin Cohen to assume a senior role at the firm and partner Joseph C. Shenker to take over as chairman of the prominent Wall Street law firm on Jan...



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