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RIA NEWS AUG 29, 2008
Salaries down, spending up in U.S.

Personal incomes fell 0.7% in July, marking the sharpest decline since incomes dropped 2.3% in August 2005.

MUTUAL FUNDS AUG 29, 2008
SEC fines ‘unscrupulous promoter’ $510,000

The SEC accused Donald H. Allen and his companiesof raising around $9.9 million from 350 investors and failing to disclose that no profits had been generated.

ETFS AUG 29, 2008
ETFs a threat to mutual funds, Cerulli says

Advisers are using ETFs in multiple ways, in both the core and satellite allocations, as well as in the active and passive slices of investors’ portfolios.

RIA NEWS AUG 28, 2008
BofA buys back $43M ARS from Mass.

The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and the Massachusetts Housing Partnership will be repaid $18 million and $25 million, respectively.

RIA NEWS AUG 28, 2008
S&P Ratings gives BlackRock an A+

The New York-based ratings agency upgraded BlackRock's long term corporate credit rating to AA- from A+.

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 27, 2008
NAILBA: Fixed indexed annuities not securities

The National Association of Independent Life Brokerage Agencies has announced its opposition to the SEC's regulation of fixed indexed annuities as securities.

RIA NEWS AUG 27, 2008
Cuomo eyes cozy ARS link between firms

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating how a close business relationship between Fidelity Investments and Goldman Sachs affected auction rate securities transactions.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 26, 2008
Home prices tumbled in second quarter

An index covering all nine U.S. census divisions fell 15.4% compared with the year-over-year decline of 14.2% in the first quarter.

RIA NEWS AUG 26, 2008
FOMC sees rate hike ahead

Inflation may fail to moderate unless monetary policy is tightened "sooner than currently anticipated by financial markets.”

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 26, 2008
Court throws out award in Executive Life case

A $241 million award given to the state regarding its takeover of the now-defunct Executive Life Insurance has been overturned.