Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 12/18/2009



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...

Washington requiring Catoosa to monitor greenhouse gases from landfill
Due to new federal regulations, Catoosa County commissioners on Tuesday, Dec. 15, voted to hire an engineering firm to study greenhouse gases emitted from the county landfill...

Old Course's Independence Attracts a Wirehouse Crowd
A group of former Merrill Lynch & Co. advisors launched an independent investment advisory company seven months ago in Houston that is already attracting advisors from other wirehouses...

The Top Markets Right Now
When asked why he robbed banks, gangster Willie Sutton gave a simple and obvious answer...

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...

Haldex: Rights Issue Fully Subscribed
Regulatory News: The preliminary results of Haldex AB's rights issue indicate that approximately 21.6 million shares, representing approximately 98.7 percent of the offered shares, were subscribed for by the exercise of subscription rights...

Four penalty free exceptions to IRA withdrawals
Early withdrawals on an IRA account are very expensive, but if you are strapped are cash, there are ways around the penalties...

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...

The Big Question: Will Obama get a climate deal in Copenhagen?
Some of the nation's top political commentators, legislators and intellectuals offer some insight into the biggest question burning up the blogosphere today...

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...

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 ...

State Sells Some Bonds
State officials completed the sale of $235,890,000 in General Obligation 2009 Series C bonds and $54,110,000 in General Obligation 2009 Series D bonds this week...

Interstate Agrees to be Acquired by Thayer/ Jin Jiang Joint Venture
Interstate Hotels & Resorts , a leading hotel real estate investor and the nationa s largest independent hotel management company, today announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by Hotel Acquisition Company, LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between subsidiaries of Thayer Hotel Investors V-A LP, a private equity fund ...

Calif. stimulus czar falling short of expectations
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says countries cannot solve the problem of climate change without the help of local governments...

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...

The Key To Investing Success: Start With A Plan
Big pension funds have Investment Policy Statements. So should you. Throwing on a backpack and heading out to points unknown may work for a college student out on a European jaunt, but the same attitude won't work when trying to earn a decent return on your investment portfolio...

Teen of Week: Luke Caldwell-Dawson
Luke Caldwell-Dawson was the last person Kathy Mahar, the principal of Archbishop Spalding, expected to see the day the Class of 2010 received their class rings during a ceremony their junior year...

MGM's CityCenter Is No Joke
With Aria, the centerpiece of MGM Mirage 's massive CityCenter project, opening earlier this week, I decided that it was high time for me to head down to the gargantuan new installation and see what all the hubbub was about...

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...

RIAs: Growing Despite Difficult Environment
In spite of the financial crisis and slumping economy, nearly half of registered investment advisors reported positive growth in their practices and improved client satisfaction in the past year, according to a new study by Scottrade Advisor Services...

a&D Pharma Hldgs N.V Uk Regulatory Announcement: Acquisition
A&D PHARMA HOLDINGS N.V. SIGNS AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPEAN PRIVATE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES A&D Pharma Holdings N.V. , the Dutch holding company that owns the largest integrated pharmaceutical wholesale, marketing and sales, and retail business in Romania today announces that, further to its announcement of 28 September 2009, ...

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...

Interstate Hotels & Resorts Signs Merger Agreement for Aquisition by.
Interstate Hotels & Resorts , a leading hotel real estate investor and the nation's largest independent hotel management company, today announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by Hotel Acquisition Company, LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between subsidiaries of Thayer Hotel Investors V-A LP, a private equity fund ...

Business
Special from CSMonitor.com For Accenture, breaking up with Tiger Woods is hard to do Corporate consultancy Accenture announced Sunday that it is dumping Tiger Woods, but it has bound its image so closely to Woods that it even put him on its stationery...

Avoid This Sector in 2010
With job losses diminishing and more signs that the economy is stabilizing, hopes are high that next year will finally usher in some much-needed economic growth...

Bringing back Baldwin
One Live Oak native has made it his mission to see that Hollywood star Stephen Baldwin gets the financial support he needs to continue doing the work he loves, which now includes preaching the gospel...

30 Second Wine Advisor: Let's get the wine on the road
Let's get the wine on the road! Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother's house we go . You're headed home for the holidays, and you'd like to take along a bottle or two of fine wine...

This Week's 5 Smartest Stock Moves
David Gardner called it. Hea s up 1,334%! See what Davida s recommending that you buy NEXT...

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...

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...



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