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ALTERNATIVES SEP 05, 2007
Holders in tapped funds want to replace bear

A group of investors in Bear Stearns’ two deflated hedge funds want to replace the funds’ general partner and director.

ETFS SEP 05, 2007
Van Eck agri-ETF says 'MOO'

Van Eck Global launched the Market Vectors-Agribusiness ETF on the American Stock Exchange today.

RIA NEWS SEP 05, 2007
Investment banker gets 50 months in prison

The chairman of Josephberg Grosz & Co. was sentenced to four years and two months in prison for evading tax payments on the sale of tax shelters.

ETFS SEP 04, 2007
ETFs edge up in August

ETF Insider's ETF 50 Index increased by 0.6% in August, following two consecutive months of declines.

ALTERNATIVES SEP 04, 2007
NYC lags Greenwich in take-home pay

New York City houses the bulk of the investment banking industry, but it holds second place when it comes to weekly pay.

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES SEP 04, 2007
Nationwide rolls out enhanced VA

Nationwide Financial Services Inc. has kicked off enhancements to its Lifetime Income Rider.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS SEP 04, 2007
Industry supports NEXT in fight with SEC

NEW YORK — NEXT Financial Group Inc., which is in the middle of a scrap with the Securities and Exchange Commission over its use of confidential client information when recruiting representatives, is getting strong support in some corners of the independent-contractor brokerage industry.

RIA NEWS SEP 04, 2007
Appetite for CDOs, other risky debt, up

NEW YORK — Recent market volatility is unlikely to curb investors’ appetite for collateralized debt obligations and other complex securitized-debt products despite the risks, wealth management executives said.

MUTUAL FUNDS SEP 04, 2007
Fund firms beef up alternative offerings

PHILADELPHIA — Despite concerns from financial advisers, more mainstream mutual fund companies are spicing up their fund lineups with products that employ strategies long used by hedge funds.

RIA NEWS SEP 04, 2007
Big firms discover reverse mortgages

SAN FRANCISCO — After years of being heralded as the next big thing in banking, reverse mortgages have come into their own, morphing from a mom-and-pop industry to big business in just the last six months.