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Shining a Light on Software
By Mike PattonOver the past 20+ years of advising clients, I have used a number of different software packages to select and monitor clients' investments. With the...
December 23, 2007
Potpourri 2007In the course of a year a few things come up that require only a brief mention and occasionally an addendum to a previous column ...
December 20, 2007
Morningstar Buying Part of HemscottIn a move intended to enlarge Chicago-based Morningstar, Inc.'s international footprint, the firm is buying online global capital markets databases, an investor relations business, and...
December 18, 2007
BlackRock Fixed-Income CIO to LeaveBlackRock co-founder Keith Anderson, who is a vice chairman and the firm's global chief investment officer for fixed income, will leave the New York-based firm, to run an investment fund of his own.
December 14, 2007
ETFs for Buy-Write StrategiesExchange traded fund (ETF) provider PowerShares Capital Management is launching three new buy-write portfolio ETFs. The ETFs offer exposure to covered call strategies based on...
December 13, 2007
Stem Cell OpportunitiesAlthough therapeutics companies working in the stem-cell arena are far from commercializing their results, companies that equip laboratories with analytical instruments and reagents are already beginning to gain from advances in the field and an influx of outside funding.
December 07, 2007
Mutual Fund Sales To Decline: StudyThe open-end mutual fund will decline in its share of the investment product mix of financial advisors by more than 10% by 2009, according to ...