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INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS OCT 19, 2010
Who needs an adviser? Online investment sites gaining traction

If you're unhappy with your mutual fund, you can easily find another. After all, there are nearly 8,000 to choose from.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OCT 11, 2010
Ponzi or pawn? Accused scammer Petters says he's innocent

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 11, 2010
Madoff lite? Petters trial commences this week

Until the Bernard Madoff scandal broke, it was a Minnesota businessman who stood accused of orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme authorities could ever recall.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 08, 2010
Four more banks bite the dust

Regulators on Friday shut down Midwest Bank and Trust Company in Elmwood Park, Ill., as well as three smaller banks in Georgia, Michigan and Missouri to bring the number of U.S. bank failures this year to 72.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS SEP 24, 2010
Federated to buy SunTrust's $17B money market unit

SunTrust Banks says it's reached a deal with Federated Investors for a partial sale of its RidgeWorth Investments subsidiary.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION SEP 20, 2010
Ponzi schemer gets max sentence for $77M fraud

Tearful, angry victims of a $77 million Ponzi scheme that targeted hundreds of often working-class Italian-Americans crowded into a Chicago courtroom Thursday to tell their stories before a judge handed the convicted swindler a maximum 23-year prison term.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 17, 2010
Swiss official to banks: Dump American clients

Threat of IRS crackdown too big a risk, says official at Swiss financial regulatory agency

UBS tax evasion probe expands to three new countries
RETIREMENT TAX SEP 17, 2010
UBS tax evasion probe expands to three new countries

UBS AG of Switzerland said Monday that authorities in Britain, Canada and Australia are investigating the bank's offshore business in the wake of revelations that it helped U.S. customers evade their taxes for years.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 16, 2010
Dealer to admit he snookered art investors, including John McEnroe and De Niro estate, in $100M scam

The tennis great, as well as the estate of actor Robert De Niro's father lost millions in the scam, according to one attorney

Obama to back more tax breaks?
NEWS RIAS SEP 14, 2010
Obama to back more tax breaks?

President Barack Obama will call on Congress to pass new tax breaks that would allow businesses to write off 100 percent of their new capital investments through 2011, the latest in a series of proposals the White House is rolling out in hopes of showing action on the economy ahead of the November elections.