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New Rules for Money Market Funds
By Melanie WaddellThe Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute endorsed March 17 recommendations from the Money Market Working Group to require new regulatory and oversight...
March 02, 2009
Success, with Strings: Searching for Alpha, March 2009What's the best way to play the eventual recovery? If you're Warren Buffett, the answer is (mostly) shunning common stock in favor of higher tiers of the capital structure.
March 02, 2009
Levitt and Donaldson Head Investor's Rights Task ForceA non-partisan task force composed of financial industry experts and co-chaired by two former SEC chairmen has been assembled to stress the "primacy of investor interest" in the expected regulatory reforms to the U.S. financial markets.
March 02, 2009
Connecting the [Tech] DotsAdvisors attending TD Ameritrade's Institutional Partnership Conference in Las Vegas last month got a first look at AdvisorConnect, a new technology that links three leading industry applications and services within a single platform.
March 01, 2009
News Flash: There's Heat Down ThereOne alternative energy concept that is still relatively undeveloped in the U.S. is geothermal heating and cooling. Although in Iceland more than half the population...
March 01, 2009
Climate Change White PaperYou can download a copy of the white paper, "Investment Opportunities in a Climate Change Economy," by Chat Reynders, CEO of Reynders McVeigh Capital Managment...
March 01, 2009
Clark at Large: We Can Be HeroesCan you believe that annuities are not only still hanging around but actually making a comeback thanks to the retirement of the baby boom generation?...
March 01, 2009
The Green Advisor: Climate Change OpportunitiesOn the January day that Al Gore testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the climate crisis, it snowed in Washington. That was apparently...