Financial Advisors | Financial Services News for 12/27/2009



Vegetarians '40% less likely to die of cancer': British research on.
PEOPLE who do not eat meat are 40 per cent less likely than others to die of cancer, researchers have found...

J.R. Perez running for treasurer
A former longtime county employee who once worked in the County Treasurer's office wants to go back - and this time, he wants to be the boss...

Preparedness urged for top political advisory body's annual session
Top Chinese political advisor Jia Qinglin has called for adequate preparation for next year's annual session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference ...

Bill Thomas to shed light, not heat, on what collapsed U.S. economy
Democratic members: Brooksley Born, former chair of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission; Byron Georgiou, a Las Vegas-based businessman and attorney who serves on the advisory board of the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance; Bob Graham, former Florida senator and governor; Heather H. Murren, a retired managing director for ...

Three Reasons Why Advisers Like American Funds' Site Best
According to Kasina and Horsesmouth, it's official. Can creative, marketing and managerial professionals learn something from this achievement? Web designer Zach Hedges of Actualize Media thinks so...

Your annual financial to-do list
The end of the year is a good time to review your personal finances. What are your financial, business or life priorities for 2010? Try to specify the goals you want to accomplish...

Unusual Birthday Party Celebrates Dead Man
The Love Brothers Cemetery in Price Hill was the scene of one of the most bizarre birthday parties anywhere, because the guest of honor was already dead...

Triad Radio Station Bids Farewell To Rush Limbaugh With Format Change
Greensboro/Winston-Salem, NC-- In a Christmas Day news release to WFMY News 2, The Triad's NewsRadio, 600/1200 WSJS, announced a revamped prime-time line-up for the new decade...

Did you keep up with the news in 2009? Give our quiz a shot
"Brother, can you spare a dime?" That might be the phrase that best sums up the news in the bleakest economic year in Colorado Springs since the Great Depression...

Chairman urges preparedness for top political advisory body's annual session
Jia Qinglin , member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Political Bureau, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference , presides over the 21st Chairpersons' Meeting of the 11th CPPCC National Committee in Beijing, capital of China, on Dec...

Fannie Mae Redemption
Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amounts indicated for the following securities issues on the redemption dates indicated below at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed, plus accrued interest thereon to the date of redemption: Principal Security Interest Maturity Date CUSIP Redemption Date Amount Type Rate ...

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...

New View of Retirement Planning
Wealth Management on Ulitzer - Many financial firms are now claiming they have a "new plan", "new perspective", "new advice" for investors.A That their "green line" or "red zone" of expert advice will now provide investment and retirement guidance that will "take you where you want to go". What is this new ground b reaking advice?A How is it ...

It's time to take another look at Roth IRAs
This might be the time for you to rethink Roth IRAs. The financial meltdown - pretty much a once-in-a-lifetime event - created what will probably be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity...

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 ...

Boom Boom finally living again
Today, the 48-year-old Mancini lives in Los Angeles with his daughter and two sons, working as an independent film producer...

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...

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...

As year ends, think about a financial checklist
The world is full of reflections and advice this time of year, and since it's just about tradition for financial writers to devise some type of yearend financial checklist I will not break ranks...

Sebeka city taxes to climb nearly 18%
Property owners in Sebeka will see their city taxes increase by 17.7% in 2010.a A A The 2009 tax levy, payable in 2010, was set at a special meeting of the Sebeka City Council on Tuesday, Dec...

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...

Recovery from recession likely to take a while
The U.S. economy gets about 70 percent of its fuel from the tapped-out American consumer, who most economists believe doesn't have the will or capacity to gin up anything more than a halting recovery from the recession that began two years ago...

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 - 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...

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...

Gary Demaree: How to climb the yield curve
Does this sound familiar? You visit your local bank because your one-year certificate of deposit has matured...

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 - 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...

Sponsors make Park and Recreation programs successful
As I mentioned in the article in November "Park and Recreation Your Best Investment," there are several things that make our programs successful...

Britain's wealth pioneers thriving against the odds
Survey shows country's top entrepreneurs generating wealth and jobs in hard times...



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