FirstMerit Teams With Answer Financial
By Staff WriterNU Online News Service, Aug. 19, 4:45 p.m. -? FirstMerit Insurance Agency, a unit of FirstMerit Corp., Akron, Ohio, has picked Answer Financial Inc., ...
August 19, 2002
Heartland Exits Bond BusinessAug. 16, 2002 -- Heartland Advisors Inc., which saw two of its municipal bond funds put into receivership last year following steep portfolio write-downs, is...
August 19, 2002
Context Capital Launches Offshore Convertible FundSAN DIEGO (HedgeWorld.com)--Context Capital Management launched its new offshore convertible arbitrage fund with US$6 million under management. The Context Convertible Arbitrage Offshore Ltd. was seeded with...
August 19, 2002
Mutual Fund Company Registers Closed-End Hedge FunCHARLOTTE, N.C. (HedgeWorld.com)--Evergreen Investment Management Co., a mutual fund company with US$108 billion in mutual fund assets, plans to join other mutual fund complexes and...
August 19, 2002
Commerzbank Keeping Jupiter after AllFRANKFURT, Germany (HedgeWorld.com)--Commerzbank AG dropped plans to sell its U.K. investment unit Jupiter International Group, London, but is going ahead with plans to sell Montgomery...
August 19, 2002
Bond ETF Investors Should Consider RiskAug. 16, 2002 -- Though the launch of the first fixed-income exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the U.S. might provide investors with an attractive new option,...
August 19, 2002
Illinois Governor Signs Two Mandate BillsNU Online News Service, Aug. 19, 6:44 p.m. -- Illinois Gov. George Ryan, a Republican, recently signed H.B. 1889 and H.B. 4220, two bills ...
August 19, 2002
AMA Paper Backs Organ Donor Incentive StudiesNU Online News Service, Aug. 19, 4:03 p.m. -- The American Medical News, a newspaper published by the American Medical Association, Chicago, says the ...