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NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 07, 2010
Adviser info leaked

Advisers in Massachusetts were stunned after receiving a letter from the Massachusetts Securities Division, announcing that the regulator had accidentally leaked personal information on some 139,000 advisers registered in the Bay State.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 07, 2010
Incite: Morgan Keegan suits leave auditor speechless

The SEC, Finra and four states have charged Morgan Keegan with fraudulently overvaluing several bond funds in 2007. Apparently, that hasn't moved accountant PwC to revisit its audit of the funds

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 07, 2010
Peter Schiff: Why Paul Krugman should lose his Nobel Prize

In his latest weekly New York Times column, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman put forward arguments that were so nonsensical that the award committee should ask for its medal back.

T. Boone: BP a good buy
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 06, 2010
T. Boone: BP a good buy

Boone Pickens bullish on BP -- the oil company, that is; 'a little more heat' to come

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 06, 2010
Jeffrey Saut: The call of the week

Depressions, and recessions, are even more difficult to predict than the stock market. Yet, most economists agree the recession ended around this time last year.

INVESTING MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 06, 2010
Advisers abandoning American Funds

American Funds had for years been a darling of the adviser community, but after the market tanked in 2008, the funds' equity bent hurt performance.

Lesson from Lynch has FBR's Ellison buying up bank stocks
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 06, 2010
Lesson from Lynch has FBR's Ellison buying up bank stocks

Why is highly rated fund manager David Ellison buying up bank stocks? It all goes back to something he learned from his former boss, Peter Lynch.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 06, 2010
Clean energy will deliver the green, says Leuthold's Kurzman

Sees 20% to 30% returns on clean tech; 'small base' a big plus

RETIREMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUL 06, 2010
MetLife will pay $13.5M to end probe of 'improper' broker payments

MetLife Inc., the biggest U.S. life insurer, agreed to pay the government $13.5 million to resolve an investigation into “improper” payments to a San Diego-based broker that sold the company's coverage.

Financial planner charged with espionage, money laundering
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 02, 2010
Financial planner charged with espionage, money laundering

U.S. prosecutors unsealed an indictment formally charging 11 alleged members of a long-term, deep-cover Russian spy ring – one that officials said includes a former financial planner who worked for an advisory and tax firm in New York.