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MUTUAL FUNDS DEC 06, 2009
Borzi: Labor Dept. still considering target date regs

The Labor Department is still considering regulating target date funds, according to Phyllis C. Borzi, assistant secretary of labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES DEC 06, 2009
CLASS Act still alive in Senate

The debate over health care reform may be getting even more rancorous, but the Senate still aims to keep a provision that would create a government program for long-term care.

By Darla Mercado
RIAS DEC 06, 2009
New York asset manager a family firm in more ways than one

At 83, Robert B. Deans Jr. still comes into the office every day.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 06, 2009
Many of the firm's clients made their fortune in the investment world

While high-net-worth clients often tend to be more sophisticated than the average investor, Silvercrest Asset Management Group LLC claims that its clients are even more investment-savvy than the typical wealthy investor.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
RETIREMENT PLANNING DEC 06, 2009
A deep bench: Each client is served by a team, typically of 3 advisers, and has access to partners

It's very rare that an investor gets the expertise of an entire financial planning team, but at Budros Ruhlin & Roe Inc., that's exactly what they get.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
RIAS DEC 06, 2009
Firm based in smaller market has eye on the wider world

In 1986, Thomas A. Muldowney was discouraged by what he was seeing in the financial services industry.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 06, 2009
Eliminating fear as a factor

In his 38 years in the business, I. Craig Hester has never seen clients as scared as they were during the market downturn.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
OPINION DEC 06, 2009
The four stages of an annual review

As the year draws to a close, fiduciaries should be turning their attention to one of their most important responsibilities: the annual portfolio review.

By Blaine F. Aikin
RETIREMENT PLANNING DEC 06, 2009
Skewed IRA, 401(k) data present window for advisers

Government estimates about how much investors withdraw from their 401(k)s and IRAs are probably way off — maybe by hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a report published late last month by the Investment Company Institute.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 06, 2009
Avast, ye! Somali pirates create an exchange for stolen loot

Market forces work everywhere — even, it would seem, on the high seas.

By Darla Mercado
MUTUAL FUNDS DEC 06, 2009
Joel Hirsh: In equities, big and boring is best

The next wave of equity opportunities lie in big, “boring” companies that have been largely overlooked in the current rally, according to hedge fund manager Joel Hirsh.

By Bloomberg
RIAS DEC 06, 2009
Firm's new leader has his sights set on new frontiers

Rolling out of the recession, Aspiriant LLC's newly chosen leader has set his sights on eastward expansion, turning the steering wheel away from sunny California and toward the Midwest.

By Darla Mercado
RIAS DEC 06, 2009
Serving the stewards is focus of firm with Christian clientele

Ronald Blue & Co. LLC and its chief executive, Russ Crosson, have put their faith in charity.

By Darla Mercado
BROKER DEALERS DEC 06, 2009
John Sykes quits Gunn-Allen board

The sudden resignation last week of John Sykes, chairman of GunnAllen Holdings Inc., has raised questions about the future of the company and its broker-dealer, GunnAllen Financial Inc.

By Bruce Kelly
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION DEC 06, 2009
'Too big to fail' may boost brokers', banks' loan costs

Provisions in legislation aimed at “too-big-to-fail” financial firms will increase borrowing costs for large institutions — and will make it harder to get secured lending, according to financial industry officials.

By Sara Hansard
INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 04, 2009
Upbeat U.S. jobs report gives world stocks big boost

Stocks surged in early trading Friday after the government said the nation's jobless rate dropped to 10 percent in November and far fewer jobs were lost.

By Bloomberg
FINTECH DEC 04, 2009
$121M award for botched transaction rocks Tokyo exchange

A court ordered the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday to pay 10.7 billion yen ($121 million) in damages to Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd. over massive losses in a botched transaction.

By Associated Press
INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 04, 2009
Unemployment slips to 10%

By Associated Press
INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 04, 2009
Stock futures surge after jobs report

By Bloomberg
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES DEC 04, 2009
SunLife president eyeing acquisitions in the U.S.

Acquiring a life insurance company in the United States is an option that Sun Life Financial Inc. is willing to entertain, Jon Boscia, president of the Canadian financial services firm, said today.

By Bloomberg