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NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION AUG 31, 2010
Top White House economist: Lax demand — not reform — is stifling businesses

On her way out the door, the top White House economist dismissed the notion that American corporations are sitting on nearly $2 trillion of cash because they're wary of how major new laws — and some policies currently under consideration — will affect their businesses.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS AUG 31, 2010
$3.2M Smith Barney team bolts Morgan Stanley for J.P. Morgan

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC has lost a $3 million producing team of veteran Smith Barney brokers to rival J.P. Morgan Securities LLC.

By Bruce Kelly
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS AUG 31, 2010
What to buy, or sell, in the auto sector

Standard and Poor's Equity Research has a positive fundamental outlook for auto makers.

By Mark Bruno
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS AUG 31, 2010
B-D dukes it out with Finra over closure

Finra is playing hardball with a broker-dealer that recently lost a securities arbitration, according to the chief executive of the small broker-dealer that's battling with the regulator.

By Bruce Kelly
NEWS INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS AUG 31, 2010
MaxxTrade the latest B-D to go belly-up

Another small broker-dealer has been shut down, with this one owing $1.2 million in damages and legal fees imposed on it in a recent arbitration decision.

By Bruce Kelly
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 31, 2010
Forged MetLife 'checks' show retained-asset risks

After her mother died, Jasmine Williams was assured by MetLife Inc. that her $101,819 in life insurance benefits were safe and was sent what the company called a guaranteed money market “checkbook” in 2002.

By Bloomberg
Bullish on bullion: Gold's best months are just ahead
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS AUG 31, 2010
Bullish on bullion: Gold's best months are just ahead

Global economic conditions are now favorable for gold as a safe-haven investment.

By Frank Holmes
Gold at six-week high and could continue to rally
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS AUG 31, 2010
Gold at six-week high and could continue to rally

Gold, which reached a six-week high in New York today, may gain as signs of a slowing economic recovery and a weaker dollar increase demand for the metal as a protection of wealth.

By Bloomberg
Guess who's betting billions on gold?
NEWS ALTERNATIVES AUG 31, 2010
Guess who's betting billions on gold?

Eric Mindich's $13 billion Eton Park Capital Management LP led hedge funds in raising gold investments last quarter, joining billionaire John Paulson's bet that bullion will increase amid inflation concerns.

By Bloomberg
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS AUG 31, 2010
Schwab and Charles Goldman agree to arbitration

The Charles Schwab Corp. and Charles Goldman have agreed to meet with a private mediator next month to discuss the former executive vice president's demand for $736,000 in severance pay following his dismissal in 2008 as head of the firm's RIA business.

By Jed Horowitz
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS AUG 31, 2010
New York minute? State late with RFP for its 529

Once bidding starts for N.Y. plan, investor fees will likely fall; 'egregiously overpriced'

By Jessica Toonkel
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS AUG 31, 2010
Pimco to sell black-swan protection

Almost two years after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s failure caused world markets to seize up, Pacific Investment Management Co. is planning a fund that will offer protection to investors against market declines of more than 15 percent.

By Bloomberg
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES AUG 31, 2010
Regulatory reform will cost life insurers: analyst

The tax impact on carriers will encompass about 1% to 2% of their total earnings, assuming an annual tax of about 4 basis points.

By Bloomberg
NEWS PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AUG 31, 2010
Wells Fargo loses another A.G. Edwards raiding case to Stifel

The suit is one of several arising between Edwards and its successor firms and Stifel as a number of Edwards brokers deserted ship in the wake of the 2007 takeover of Edwards by Wachovia Securities LLC.

By Dan Jamieson
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS AUG 31, 2010
Janus earnings tempered by outflows from quant funds

Janus Capital Group Inc., owner of the Janus, Intech and Perkins funds, missed analysts' estimates by a penny after investors withdrew more money than expected from its quantitative investment unit.

By Bloomberg
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION AUG 30, 2010
Fired analyst ordered to pay former firm $10.7M

Finra arbitrators have ordered a securities analyst who claims he was wrongfully fired by Rodman & Renshaw LLC in 2006 for attempting to lower a stock rating to pay the broker-dealer $10.7 million in damages.

By Bruce Kelly
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS AUG 30, 2010
Stocks look cheap vs. bonds, says Perkins

Relative to the low yields of bonds, the stock market is attractively valued, according to Tom Perkins, manager of the $81 million Perkins Large Cap Value Fund Ticker:(JAPIX) and the $12.4 billion Perkins Mid Cap Value Fund Ticker:(JMVAX).

By Jeff Benjamin
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS AUG 30, 2010
Prudential is new No. 1 seller of overall individual annuities

By Darla Mercado
NEWS PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AUG 30, 2010
Cetera hires Schwab exec as new national sales head

Mark Palmer, a Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. executive, today was named national sales manager at Cetera Financial Group, the broker-dealer network owned by private-equity firm Lightyear Capital LLC.

By Darla Mercado
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS AUG 30, 2010
U.S. economy turning Japanese? Wilshire's Chang really thinks so

Ineffective government policy and a lack of clarity on the direction of the economy make the case for a defensive investment strategy, according to Cleo Chang, manager of the Direxion/Wilshire Dynamic Fund Ticker:(DXDWX).

By Bloomberg