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INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 22, 2007
Investors get portfolio jitters in October

Investor optimism stayed at par in October, but investors were glum about their own portfolios.

INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 22, 2007
Aiming to solve the puzzle of active ETFs

Bringing to market actively managed exchange traded funds has proved to be an elusive goal, but at least six managers think that they have the secret formula to make these vehicles work.

INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 22, 2007
Navigating employer retirement plans

With so much emphasis in this book on buying a long-term, highly diversified portfolio, it would be reasonable if you figured that this is exactly how you should invest the money in your retirement plan at work.

INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 22, 2007
New opportunities for infrastructure investors

Renewed government confidence in privatization and a robust secondary market could create new homes for committed capital waiting to be invested in infrastructure, according to a study by Ernst & Young LLP.

INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 19, 2007
FBI probing Michigan firm

E-M Management Investments is at the center of a series of collapsed private partnerships.

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES OCT 19, 2007
NAIC chairman re-elected to exec committee

Michel Flamee has been re-elected chair of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors executive committee.

INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 19, 2007
Dollar tanks, crude oil soars

The dollar edged up from its near-record low against the euro, while crude oil traded past the $90 mark on NYMEX for the first time.

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES OCT 19, 2007
IMSA introduces clearinghouse

The system will help life insurance companies get certifications of supervision of annuity suitability.

OPINION OCT 19, 2007
IRA beneficiaries beware wrong turns

INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 18, 2007
Americans feeling fiscally fit, survey says

Despite careening markets, Americans felt more confident about their financial security.

INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 17, 2007
Lehman gives $10 million to Spelman

Lehman has pledged $10 million to Spelman College to prepare black women for careers in the financial sector.

INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 16, 2007
Capital flows fell $163 billion in August

The figure includes the change in banks' dollar-denominated liabilities, which comprised most of the loss.

WIREHOUSES OCT 16, 2007
Merrill appoints Boston wealth chief

Cory Little will head the private banking and investment unit in Boston's global wealth management group.

WIREHOUSES OCT 16, 2007
CFO's job not in peril, says Merrill

Merrill Lynch is stoutly denying that its finance chief, Jeffrey Edwards, will get the boot.

INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 16, 2007
LPL names head of affiliated B-Ds

LPL has plucked Derek Bruton from a custodian that caters to RIAs to oversee its network of affiliated B-Ds.

INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 16, 2007
'Full recovery' a ways off, says Bernanke

Market uncertainty remains unusually high as a result of subprime-mortgage turmoil, the Fed chief said last night.

BROKER DEALERS OCT 15, 2007
Top-producing rep under scrutiny by Michigan regulator

One of the nation's top-producing independent brokers is under investigation by Michigan securities regulators.

BROKER DEALERS OCT 15, 2007
Schwab to roll out benefits package for advisers

In an effort to get more wirehouse brokers to break away and become independent registered investment advisers, Schwab Institutional plans to roll out today an all-in-one benefits and payroll package designed for the newly independent RIA.

INDUSTRY NEWS OCT 15, 2007
'Terror-free' investing draws public pension plans

Across the country, states are considering plans to apply "terror-free" investing strategies to their public pensions.

REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 15, 2007
Banks to create fund to head off asset sale

The Master-Liquidity Enhancement Conduit seeks to prevent an asset fire sale and to stimulate credit markets.