Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 12/24/2009



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...

10 Days of Stocks and Commodities
It's been a great year as we head into the final few trading sessions. The past several weeks the indexes have not done much of anything which is why we are now in cash...

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...

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...

Climate deal a death warrant for Pacific Islanders
Copenhagen, December 20, 2009 - The highest order of arrogance was shown to Pacific Island leaders by heads of state from the world's most powerful countries for presenting a 'take it or leave it' deal to the Copenhagen Climate Summit said Greenpeace...

A quiet but HUGE no nukes triumph
Harvey Wasserman A quiet but HUGE no nukes triumph December 23, 2009 As the Copenhagen climate talks collapsed, an unheralded but hard-fought No Nukes victory moved us closer to a green-powered Earth...

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...

Reporting: WashingtonAS G.O.P. Railed at Democrats, it Hid Flawed Inance Reports
Reporting: Washington AS G.O.P. RAILED AT DEMOCRATS, IT HID FLAWED INANCE REPORTS by Margie Burns American Reporter Correspondent Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON, Aug...

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...

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...

Peter Brimelow: Bottom 10 (OK, 11) letters of 2009
How are the mighty fallen, or at least bouncing. As usual, this year's bottom 10 performing investment letters include names from last year's winners...

Tata Sponge
Palm oil dropped for a third day to its lowest level in two weeks as a rallying dollar red. Sky-high gold jewellery prices will haunt buyers in 2010 also though India is better place. Commodity futures turnover up 131% India's commodity futures turnover from four national exchanges and 18 regional ones. India's iron-ore prices for cash sales ...

Storm Ventures International Inc. Enters Into Agreement to Acquire.
Storm Ventures International Inc. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with certain wholly-owned subsidiaries of Provident Energy Trust to acquire oil and natural gas assets located in west central Alberta , for a total purchase price of $190 million with an effective date of October 1, 2009 ...

Bank of Canada says recovery progressing quicker than thought
The Bank of Canada indicated Thursday it has become more confident about the economic recovery in this country and abroad, adding growth in Canada in the second half of this year could exceed previous expectations...

Managing Director of Investment Advisory Services
An outstanding St. Louis based accounting and financial advisory firm is in need of a seasoned financial advisory professional to join their growing organization...

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...

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...

The Teen Wire: Our Parents, Our Gatekeepers
Teen Wire , posted by Daniel Morizono, a member of the San Ramon Valley High School community, 4 hours ago Daniel Morizono is a member of Danville Express This is the third in a six-week series of blogs about applying to college by admission advisor Elizabeth LaScala and Teen Wire high school senior Daniel Morizono - showing both sides of the coin, ...

DeSilva+Phillips, Mediabankers Client Lebhar-Friedman, Inc. Announces .
- DeSilva+Phillips, Mediabankers client Lebhar-Friedman, Inc. announces the sale of Dowden Professional Publications, the Dowden medical journals publishing division, to Quadrant HealthCom Inc. Included in the sale are OBG Management, Current Psychiatry, Journal of Family Practice and Mayo Clinical Proceedings. In announcing the sale, Roger Friedman, President of Lebhar-Friedman, said that the decision to sell the Dowden journals is about focus: "The sale of these properties enables us to concentrate our media strategies on digital media, including our websites' lead-generation products, and the customization of our skills and experience as a major B2B publishing company." He added, "We are now better able to concentrate our resources on higher growth areas and lessen our corporation's dependence on print-advertiser-based products." Mr. Friedman also affirmed his belief that "under the direction of Quadrant's President, Steve Stoneburn, the former Dowden publications will be better positioned to grow and to serve their markets." DeSilva+Phillips acted as financial advisor to Lebhar-Friedman in this transaction. About Lebhar-Friedman: Lebhar-Friedman, Inc. has leveraged an 80-plus year history of publishing excellence and is among the country's leading B2B and healthcare media companies. Headquartered in New York City, with leading B2B titles such as Nation's Restaurant News, Drug Store News and Chain Store Age, Lebhar-Friedman's business units are dedicated to providing executives, professionals and clients with timely and relevant information online and in print. Based in Montvale, New Jersey, the Dowden Health Media unit includes Medical DecisionPoint/Conversion, a full-service medical communications agency, and Dowden Custom Media, a specialized business delivering online and offline content that is customized for hospitals, healthcare organizations and other healthcare-focused businesses. About Quadrant HealthCom: Quadrant HealthCom Inc. is a multimedia communications company specializing in the healthcare market. Its nine medical journals, affiliated websites and custom publishing programs reach more than 350,000 healthcare professionals in the United States in the dermatology, pulmonary, primary care, neurology, urgent care, emergency medicine, women's health, orthopedics, nurse practitioner/physician assistant and federal markets. About DeSilva+Phillips, MediabankersTM: DeSilva+Phillips, Mediabankers, is a New York-based investment bank that advises dealmakers in every area of the media, information and related technology markets. DeSilva+Phillips provides M&A advisory and corporate restructuring services and private placements of debt and equity, and has completed more than 200 transactions since 1996. Its broker-dealer affiliate, DeSilva+Phillips Corporate Finance LLC, is a member of FINRA and SIPC. ### Media Contact: DeSilva+Phillips, LLC Sam Schulman 212-686-9700..

NCE Diversified Flow-Through (10) Limited Partnership Files Preliminary Prospectus
Flow-through shares The Partnership has been created for the purpose of investing in flow-through shares of resource issuers engaged in oil and gas exploration, development and/or production, or mineral exploration, development and/or production and, to a lesser extent and subject to certain limitations, resource issuers involved in renewable ...

MTS Medication Technologies, Inc. Completes Merger with Excellere Partners
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., December 22, 2009-- MTS Medication Technologies, Inc. , an international provider of medication adherence packaging systems, today announced the completion of its previously announced merger with an affiliate of Excellere Partners, LLC...

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 ...

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...

Deloitte Wins Multiple M&A Advisor Awards for BearingPoint North American Public Services Acquisitio
Deloitte announced today that it received top honors in two categories of The M&A Advisor 8th Annual M&A Awards in recognition of Deloitte's acquisition of the BearingPoint North American Public Services practice this year...

Garden Ridge resident debuts mystery thrillers
Garden Ridge resident and retired Air Force Col. Bob Doerr has written two crime novels, Dead Men Can Kill and Cold Winter's Kill...

Tax tip this year: Cut your losses
The new year is just around the corner, all the more reason to take steps in the last few days remaining of 2009 to help lower your income taxes...

Bottom 10 (OK, 11) letters of 2009
How are the mighty fallen, or at least bouncing. As usual, this year's bottom 10 performing investment letters include names from last year's winners...

MomentumLIPSTICK on Which Pig?
This is for all of you who are truly frightened by Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin: give it a rest...

Why capping credit card rates at 16% is bad for consumers
In the last few months, Congress members have gotten an earful from constituents angry about rising credit card rates...

2009 Roth IRA contribution deadline - How late can I fund my Roth IRA?
Give your retirement piggy bank a boost by making a 2009 contribution to your Roth IRA before the deadline...



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