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NEWS RIAS JUL 16, 2010
UBS Wealth Management hooks up with Richard Bernstein

UBS Wealth Management Americas said it will offer clients in its separately managed account program asset allocation ideas from Richard Bernstein Capital Management LLC, a registered investment adviser, whose eponymous founder was formerly Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.'s chief investment strategist.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 16, 2010
Spooked by spikes? This fund provides buffer against market volatility

Given the recent swings on the stock market, nervous investors might want to consider a fund that dampens volatility. One such fund: the Goldman Sachs Absolute Return Tracker Fund Ticker:(GARTX).

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 16, 2010
Why Exxon is a slick pick: St. James' Mark

The St. James strategy, which has generated a 10% average annualized return since its 1999 inception, is built on identifying the fair value of less than two dozen stocks.

Obama signs controversial financial-reform bill - and the spin begins
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 15, 2010
Obama signs controversial financial-reform bill - and the spin begins

Pres. Obama's signature on the financial reform bill is barely dry. But Democrats and Republicans are already hustling to shape voters' opinions on the Dodd-Frank bill.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 15, 2010
JPMorgan earns $4.8 billion in 2nd quarter

JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Thursday its second-quarter net income soared 77 percent to $4.8 billion as a slowdown in losses from failed loans helped offset a difficult spring in trading and investment banking.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 15, 2010
Fed unemployment forecast fails to bring stimulus

Federal Reserve officials predicted the expansion will be too slow to return to full employment in the next two years while also saying further measures to boost the economy probably won't be needed in the short term.

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUL 15, 2010
AIG agrees to pay $725M to investors in settlement

American Insurance Group Inc. and some of its directors and officers have agreed to a $725 million settlement to resolve allegations of wide-ranging fraud laid out in a class action suit led by three Ohio pension funds.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 15, 2010
DOL finally issues rules on 401(k) fee disclosure

The Labor Department today issued much anticipated fee disclosure rules for providers of services to employee pension benefit plans.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 15, 2010
JPMorgan debt sale: Striking while the iron is hot?

JPMorgan Chase & Co., the second- biggest U.S. bank by assets, plans to sell 10-year global notes as soon as today after reporting profit rose 76 percent, more than analysts estimated.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 15, 2010
Snowe, Brown push financial reg bill toward finish line

After spending the July 4 recess studying the 2,300-page overhaul measure, Sens. Scott Brown, R-Mass., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, announced yesterday that they will support the bill.