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Energy, Metal and Ag Funds Launched
By Staff WriterCompared to stocks and bonds, commodities still have a lot of respect to gain as a "standard" asset class, and PowerShares and Deutsche Bank hope...
February 27, 2007
Carrier To Sell VA Contract Through Independent MGAsOld Mutual Financial Network has introduced the Beacon Navigator flexible-premium variable annuity.Old Mutual, Atlanta, a unit of Old Mutual P.L.C., London, will be selling the ...
February 27, 2007
Carrier To Sell VA Contract Through Independent MGAsOld Mutual Financial Network has introduced the Beacon Navigator flexible-premium variable annuity.Old Mutual, Atlanta, a unit of Old Mutual P.L.C., London, will be selling the ...
February 22, 2007
Morningstar to Acquire S&P's Mutual Fund Data BusinessMorningstar, Inc. and Standard and Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, have entered into a definitive agreement for Morningstar to acquire Standard and Poor's mutual fund data business for $55 million in cash.
February 14, 2007
Morningstar Adds Managed AccountsAdvisors who are looking at managed accounts for stocks may want to examine a new offering from Morningstar Investment Services, Managed Portfolios Select Stock Baskets,...
February 08, 2007
Making It Easier to Invest in Vice and the Boomerswo growth funds that are anything but run of the mill are now available through Schwab's One Source no-load, no-transaction-fee mutual fund platform: the Vice Fund (VICEX) and the Generation Wave Growth Fund (GWGFX).
February 01, 2007
Great-West Lifeco Looks South to Buy Putnam InvestmentsPutnam Investments' parent company, Marsh & McLennan, is selling the investment company to Great-West Lifeco, Inc., a Winnipeg, Manitoba-based subsidiary of Power Financial Corporation, for $3.9 billion, according to a February 1 announcement.
February 01, 2007
A Matter of StyleBy Craig Callahan, founder and president of Icon Advisers in Denver, and C. Thomas Howard, professor of finance at the Daniels College of Business, also...