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AdvisorShares, Philippe Cousteau Launch Actively Managed Sustainable ETF
By Joyce HansonPhillippe Cousteau, grandson of oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, hopes to use the multi-manager Global Echo ETF to 'do well by doing good.'
May 17, 2012
New Hire Roundup: Kapoor Rises at Morningstar; Chilton Trust Gains ApprovalThis week in new hires, Morningstar promoted Kunal Kapoor; Chilton Trust was approved by the Florida Office of Financial Regulation; and Duff & Phelps announced a new independent broker-dealer due diligence practice.
May 11, 2012
London’s ‘Whale’ Loses $2 Billion for JPMorganCEO Jamie Dimon said that the office suffered an egregious failure and that losses from volatile synthetic credit securities could mount by another $1 billion in this quarter or the third.
May 10, 2012
Milliman 100 Companies Report $326.8 Billion Pension Funding Deficit at Close of 2011Declining discount rates in 2011, including an historic year-end low of 4.8%, drove the pensions of the Milliman 100 companies to a record year-end 2011 funding deficit of $326.8 billion, according to a new report.
May 10, 2012
Best Full-Service Investment Firms Ranked by Investors: J.D. Power—2012Satisfaction with the major firms in 2012 is at pre-crisis levels of 2008, but it is down when measuring several critical factors, the satisfaction survey found.
May 08, 2012
Underwriters Utilized Over-Allotment Option on AIG SharesThe strength of interest in American International Group (AIG) stock was further displayed when the Treasury announced after the market closed Monday night that underwriters had exercised their over-allotment option on the 163.9 million shares of AIG held by the Treasury that it was selling.
May 07, 2012
Federal Government Poised to Make $15 Billion from AIG InvestmentA sale of AIG stock is just the latest in a series of steps the federal government is taking to wind down its investment in the once-troubled insurer, a process that could ultimately net the government some $15 billion in profit.
May 07, 2012
Federal Government Poised to Make $15 Billion from AIG InvestmentA sale of AIG stock is just the latest in a series of steps the federal government is taking to wind down its investment in the once-troubled insurer, a process that could ultimately net the government some $15 billion in profit.