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By Jane Wollman RusoffIt was the thrill of a lifetime when, crossing the finish line in Frankfurt, Germany, he heard the announcer proclaim: "Larry Palmer, you're an Ironman!" The...
August 28, 2008
Higher Education Act Adds Simplification, Disclosure RequirementsOn August 14, 2008, ten years since its last reauthorization, President Bush signed into law the Higher Education Act (H.R. 4137). The law was originally...
August 25, 2008
Investors Cap Taps Murphy as President/CEO (Aug. 25, 2008)Investors Capital Holdings has announced that Timothy B. Murphy is its new president and chief executive office. He is also head of the firm's independent broker-dealer and investment advisors - Inves
August 22, 2008
Merrill Reaches $4 Bn ARS Deal with New York (Aug. 22, 2008)Merrill Lynch says it has reached a global resolution with the New York attorney general and state securities regulators to resolve issues related to sales of auction-rate securities. The firm also re
August 20, 2008
Securities Jobs Remain Surprisingly Flat (Aug. 20, 2008)This was a negative, but not as bad as the consensus number of 70,000 and coupled with upward revisions to May and June, some saw a glimmer of recovery in this report, says Jeff Testerman of brokerhun
August 20, 2008
From ARS to GMWB: Too Much Risk? (Commentary)In light of the sub-prime implosion and the auction-rate securities mess, promises from the industry that it can properly calculate risk/liquidity exposure have to be seriously discounted. The industr
August 20, 2008
High-Yield Dividend Stocks: The Silent Winner (Commentary)In a quest for protection from increasingly volatile markets, investors have yanked a page out of legendary value investor Benjamin Graham's tome, The Intelligent Investor, and are persistently seekin
August 14, 2008
LPL Has a New CFO (Aug. 14, 2008)Moore joins LPL Financial with more than 20 years of financial, management and leadership experience, most recently from ABN AMRO North America and LaSalle Bank Corporation, where he served as CFO and