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INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 04, 2007
Highbridge poaches exec from Goldman

Highbridge Capital Management has hired former Goldman Sachs investment banking co-head Scott Kapnick top launch a new private equity business.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 04, 2007
Auto-enrollment eyed for federal workers

A retirement savings plan that covers more than 3.7 million federal workers may take a page from an increasing number of corporate 401(k) plan sponsors and institute automatic enrollment.

NEWS BROKER DEALERS JUN 04, 2007
Indie firms sweeten deals for recruits

Faced with intense competition for financial advisers and growing transition costs, an increasing number of independent-contractor broker-dealers over the past year have boosted the amount of money they give to representatives and advisers to switch firms.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUN 04, 2007
CFP Board emphasizes fiduciary responsibility

NEW YORK — The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. has adopted a revised version of its standards of professional conduct, placing a greater emphasis on the importance of fiduciary responsibility.

NEWS BROKER DEALERS JUN 04, 2007
A.G. Edwards brokers mull life after acquisition

Bracing for change, registered representatives at A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. last week met the news that they are being acquired by Wachovia Corp. with a range of opinions.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 04, 2007
Trade groups facing off over stable-value funds

WASHINGTON — The Investment Company Institute last week fought back against the life insurance industry’s attempt to get stable-value funds included as 401(k) default investment options.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUN 04, 2007
Use of insurance for M&A deals growing

The fear of mergers-and-acquisition agreements’ going sour increasingly is being eased by insurance, according to industry experts.

INVESTING ETFS JUN 04, 2007
ETFs are finding favor among brokers

The recent setting aside of the broker-dealer exemption rule could make the brokerage community one of the hottest markets for exchange traded funds — a dramatic reversal from the way ETFs were viewed by brokers just a few years ago.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 04, 2007
Check out this tabloid tale

The son of former National Enquirer owner Generoso Pope Jr. is fighting his mother in a battle that has all of the makings of a story that the elder Mr. Pope might have splashed over the cover of his lurid supermarket tabloid.

NEWS RIAS JUN 04, 2007
Fidelity CEO eases requirements for adviser biz’s profit margins

Edward C. “Ned” Johnson III has given the adviser services business at Fidelity Investments approval to loosen temporarily constraints on its profit margins in a bid to gain market share among advisers.