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NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 10, 2009
Wells Fargo 3Q profit rises to $3.2 billion

Wells Fargo & Co. says its third-quarter profit nearly doubled from a year ago although it joins other big U.S. banks in reporting higher loan losses.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 10, 2009
E-Trade Financial prices public stock offering

The struggling online brokerage and bank looks to raise capital to pull itself out from under mortgage-related loan losses.

NEWS ALTERNATIVES DEC 10, 2009
Just two CDS clearinghouses will survive, analysts say

Although five exchanges will soon vie to clear credit default swap trades in Europe and the United States, the number is likely to dwindle to one on each side of the Atlantic in the next couple of years, according to analysts and industry participants.

NEWS RIAS DEC 09, 2009
Fairport Asset Management bids adieu to CEO and CIO

CEO said he's leaving as a result of strategic differences with the parent company

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 09, 2009
World markets fall on sovereign debt worries

World stock markets fell Wednesday amid ongoing worries about sovereign credit risks and ahead of a key budgetary policy statement from the British government.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 09, 2009
Investors in Dubai don't buy, as market plunges

Dubai's main stock exchange plunged for a third straight day Wednesday as investors dumped holdings.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 09, 2009
Stock futures point to a higher open

Stock futures are indicating a higher open on Wall Street Wednesday, bouncing back from the previous day's losses as the dollar resumes its decline.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 09, 2009
Stocks mixed in early trading

Stocks are slightly lower in early trading as concerns about foreign debt problems offset a weaker dollar.

NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES DEC 09, 2009
Controversial accounting change will boost insurers' capital reserves

NEWS RIAS DEC 09, 2009
California eyes renewal fee for advisers at B-Ds, RIAs

California is considering charging broker-dealer and investment advisory representatives $25 per year to cover the cost of regulating more investment advisory firms, the state's corporations commissioner, Preston DuFauchard, told InvestmentNews today.

NEWS WIREHOUSES DEC 09, 2009
MSSB exec: Smith Barney broker attrition has stabilized

The broker attrition at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC is slowing down, according to Charles Johnston, its president and chief operating officer.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 09, 2009
'Tis the season for market forecasts – and lunch

I don't mean to sound insensitive or flip, but a few years ago, I came up with an economically and socially beneficial way to address the hunger problem in New York. I call it the PR solution.

NEWS PRACTICE MANAGEMENT DEC 09, 2009
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney pumps up recruiting packages to lure top producers

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC is entering into the recruiting wars with its guns blazing and is creating a potential pay package for new advisers that will match that of its rival Merrill Lynch & Co Inc.'s Global Wealth Management unit.

NEWS RIAS DEC 09, 2009
Putnam creates business channel for RIAs

In another acknowledgment of the rapid rise of independent investment advisers, Putnam Investments is creating a distribution channel dedicated solely to selling its products to them.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 09, 2009
Whitman, Eveillard: Markets present rare opportunities

“The opportunities today, from the bottom up, are certainly the best I've seen in my lifetime,” Martin J. Whitman, the founder of New York-based Third Avenue Management LLC, told advisers today.

NEWS PRACTICE MANAGEMENT DEC 08, 2009
Brokerages face 2011 start date for reporting cost-basis info

Regulations proposed last week by the Internal Revenue Service would leave brokerage firms little time to begin reporting cost basis information to customers.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 08, 2009
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney said to be moving away from wrap fees

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 08, 2009
Moody's warning about U.S., U.K. smacks stocks

European and U.S. stock markets fell sharply Tuesday after worse than expected German industrial production data and a warning from a leading credit ratings agency that the U.S. government needs to get its public finances in shape soon.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 08, 2009
Stock futures drift lower as dollar strengthens

Stock futures are drifting lower as investors pile on more safe-haven assets like the dollar and Treasurys.

NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES DEC 08, 2009
West Virginia's Jane Cline tabbed to head NAIC

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners named its 2010 leaders today, with Jane Cline, West Virginia's insurance commissioner, assuming the presidency.