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FINTECH OCT 17, 2008
iTunes provides info for advisers

Why download music when you could instead be listening to a market outlook forecast from MFS Investment Management?

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES OCT 17, 2008
Indexed-annuity rule comment period extended

The Securities and Exchange Commission has chosen Nov. 17 as the new deadline for comments on its proposal to register indexed annuities.

RIA NEWS OCT 17, 2008
Consumer confidence plunges in October

Consumer confidence fell by the largest amount on record in October, according to a preliminary release of the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers' Index of Consumer Sentiment.

ALTERNATIVES OCT 17, 2008
Hedge funds flail in third quarter

Hedge fund data-gatherers have started rolling out the grim numbers from September, a month being dubbed the worst month in the history of the shrinking industry.

ETFS OCT 17, 2008
Invesco unveils emerging markets ETFs

Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC’s emerging markets infrastructure exchange traded fund began trading yesterday, the Wheaton, Ill., firm announced.

FINTECH OCT 17, 2008
Schwab website crashes, thwarting advisers

Advisers were denied access to the San Francisco-based Schwab Institutional website, which allows them to input client orders and check accounts and transaction histories, for about one hour, Schwab spokeswoman Alison Wertheim said.

RIA NEWS OCT 17, 2008
'Extraordinary response' necessary, Bush says

Calling the $700 billion government bailout an “extraordinary response to an extraordinary crisis,” President Bush today said that it is “going to take awhile” for the initiative to thaw the frozen credit markets.

ALTERNATIVES OCT 16, 2008
‘Portfolio pumping’ scheme foiled by SEC

San Francisco hedge fund MedCap Management & Research LLC and its principal, Charles Toney, were charged today by the Securities and Exchange Commission with reporting misleading results by “portfolio pumping.”

ALTERNATIVES OCT 16, 2008
Hedge funds clipped by manic market

If preliminary data on hedge fund redemptions for September are any indication, the $1.9 trillion industry could be scrambling to honor a flood of withdrawal requests at the end of the year.

LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES OCT 16, 2008
Cuomo to AIG: Give back the bucks

New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has demanded that AIG recover the money it spent on lavish outings, bonuses and golden parachutes — and threatened sanctions if the insurer didn’t heed the order.