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SEC: Real estate trade group exec ran investment scam
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 07, 2010
SEC: Real estate trade group exec ran investment scam

Renee Brown is president of the Real Estate Securities Investment Association. She also co-founded a due diligence firm.This week, the SEC charged her with bilking investors

NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 07, 2010
Images of the day: Following suicide attempt, star adviser comes clean

Rhonda Breard, 47, promoted her financial expertise in television infomercials and in $49 seminars at local community colleges. Beginning in 2004, she started encouraging clients to take money out of certain accounts and turn it over to her — supposedly for new investments.

Adviser at center of Okla. hoops probe leaves Merrill, joins Raymond James
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 07, 2010
Adviser at center of Okla. hoops probe leaves Merrill, joins Raymond James

Jeffrey Hausinger switches firms following allegations that he gave money to Oklahoma Sooners' basketball star Keith “Tiny” Gallon

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 07, 2010
How to play the 'other Japan Inc.'

Japan's stock market has attracted as much “new blood” as the U.S. in the past 10 years.

NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 07, 2010
Insurers dead set against life settlement securitization

The American Council of Life Insurers is asking policymakers to bar the securitization of life settlements.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 07, 2010
Raymond James hit for $12M in raiding case over ex-A.G. Edwards reps

Raymond James & Associates Inc. was ordered by an arbitration panel to pay Wells Fargo Advisors LLC $12.1 million in a case involving claims of broker raiding.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 07, 2010
Nikkei on a roll, hits 15-month high

Japan's Nikkei stock index climbed to a 15-month high Monday as a weaker yen boosted exporters while shares in troubled Japan Airlines Corp. surged 31 percent from a record low on hopes for extra government funding.

NEWS RIAS APR 07, 2010
One year later, full examination of crisis lacking

A year after the financial equivalent of Hurricane Katrina struck, damaging the world's economies, devastating the major capital markets and demolishing major financial institutions, it is worthwhile to examine

This is how inflation begins
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 06, 2010
This is how inflation begins

Not surprisingly, it often starts with a geometric rise in government debt. Sound familiar?

NEWS WIREHOUSES APR 06, 2010
Recruiting tug of war: The internal brokerage battle

Within the individual brokerage firms, there is an ongoing tug of war going on. On one side are Branch Managers who are put under pressure to hire.

NEWS BROKER DEALERS APR 06, 2010
Sykes letter to IN: Closure of GunnAllen was a surprise

<i>The following is a letter from John Sykes, the largest single shareholder in defunct broker-dealer GunnAllen Financial, in response to this question posed by InvestmentNews news editor Bruce Kelly late last month: &#8220;What happened at GunnAllen?&#8221;</i>

NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 06, 2010
HSAs a health care reform winner?

HSA deposits are expected to top $14 billion in assets this year, up from $1 billion in 2006

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 06, 2010
TD Bank's profit soars in 1Q -- despite a dip at TD Ameritrade

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 05, 2010
Bear Stearns honchos grilled on collapse

Executives testified today that they did all they could to keep Bear Stearns

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 05, 2010
Buybacks, job report likely to push stocks even higher

The stock market has been on some run of late, with the S&amp;P 500 index up nearly 5% in the first quarter. With cash-rich corporates eyeing stock buybacks, expect more of the same.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 05, 2010
Federal Reserve holds rates at record lows, brews internal dissent

The Federal Reserve repeats its pledge to hold interest rates at record lows to foster the economic recovery and ease high unemployment.

Buffett lunch: Investment firm set for $1.7M meal with Omaha's Oracle
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 05, 2010
Buffett lunch: Investment firm set for $1.7M meal with Omaha's Oracle

The Canadian investment firm that paid $1.68 million last year to win lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett is about to collect its prize.

Credit-counseling group launches site for Hispanics
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 04, 2010
Credit-counseling group launches site for Hispanics

Financial literacy has gone bilingual.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 02, 2010
Employers added most jobs in three years in March

The nation's economy posted its largest job gain in three years in March, while the unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent for the third straight month.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 02, 2010
Money manager charged in $190M Ponzi scheme

An Apple Valley, Minn., money manager is charged with orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that allegedly defrauded at least 1,000 victims out of $190 million.