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Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
A bill in Congress could force a major change in the way mutual funds are bought and sold through advisers.
SeekingAlpha Energy Stocks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tom Konrad ( AltEnergyStocks ) submits: Investing in green energy can be good for both the climate and your wallet. How good depends on choosing the right investment vehicles (mutual funds, ETFs, or stocks) and sectors to invest in. This will get you started. More and more investors are investing in green energy. According to the Cleantech Group, the Cleantech sector is now the largest sector for...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Congress didn't actually vote to end the confusion over mutual fund share classes last week, but they took a step that ultimately could go a long way to simplifying the...
Tel-Chai Nation (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The New York Post (via The Jawa Report) has an article about the mosque where the murderer at Fort Hood, Malik Nidal Hasan, went to pray. Among the things they tell here:...the mosque has worse associations. On its own Web site (mccmd.org), it promotes a Sharia-based financial product -- the Amana Mutual Fund, put together by the Wahhabis at the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT),
TraderFeed (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
* Prop firms implicated in insider trading scandal; * Mutual fund investors chasing overseas and commodity returns, bonds--not US stocks; * Interesting look at high frequency trading and one firm accounting for 15% of all volume; * Worthwhile video perspectives on reading the tape and trading the market open ; * Trader Planet offering free e-book on riding out the economic storm ; * Thoughts on diversification...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
A Bay Area burger joint. Denver's Bubba Chino's Mexican food chain. Rocklin's Icing on the Cupcake. Those are a few of the top contenders for the deal of the decade: free rent for a year in a tiny space adjoining Harv's Metro Car Wash in midtown Sacramento. Those three and a handful of others are on a "short list" culled from about 70 responses to the offer from Harv's owner Aaron Zeff,...
Wise Law Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Legal services currently are exempt from Ontario's 8% provincial sales tax. With the Province's imminent imposition of a 15% HST that is now targeted to apply to legal fees, Slaws Edward Prutschi considers the negative implications of this tax on access to justice in the province, and eloquently asks why organizations representing the legal profession remain largely silent : Starting in July 2010 when...
FelixSalmon.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
What happened to mutual-fund fees and expenses in the wake of the financial crisis? Lipper has crunched the numbers , and it seems that the tumble in the stock market didn't have much effect on expenses: Surprisingly, the median management expense for most asset classes was largely unchanged from 2008 levels; most exhibited changes of +/- a few tenths of a basis point. Fees, on the other hand, are...
SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Felix Salmon submits: What happened to mutual-fund fees and expenses in the wake of the financial crisis? Lipper has crunched the numbers , and it seems that the tumble in the stock market didn’t have much effect on expenses: Surprisingly, the median management expense for most asset classes was largely unchanged from 2008 levels; most exhibited changes of +/- a few tenths of a basis point....
US News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Members of Congress and union reps are concerned about risks.
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Proposed pan-European regulation of hedge funds and private equity is being introduced on the back of a 'vague, sweeping and inadequate' analysis of the problem, according to a report prepared for European lawmakers
Rortybomb (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
(cross posted. Check out the interesting comments there. I’m still curious as how differential fees could come about in terms of costs; anyone involved with mutual funds is welcome to comment or contact me off the record. I also just realized that my WRDS contract doesn’t include their awesome mutual fund [...]
BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Filed under: Citigroup Inc. (C) , Initial public offerings Being 34% owned by the U.S. government, Citigroup 's (NYSE: C ) destiny is somewhat murky. Yet, to pay off the loans, this massive financial institution must shrink. To this end, Citigroup has filed a public offering for its Primerica Financial Services. According to the prospectus, the deal is expected to raise $100 million, but it's likely...
The Young Professional Blogs Aggregator (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Dollar cost averaging is one of the best secrets in being a successful long term investor. It’s simple, it’s quick, and it is mathematically genius. Dollar cost averaging makes sense and works for investors who want long term stock and mutual fund appreciation. Dollar cost averaging is a systematic, ongoing deposit of a specific amount of [...] Related posts: What Is The Break Even Point...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
SYRACUSE, N.Y., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alliance Financial Corporation ("Alliance", or the "Company") (Nasdaq: ALNC), the holding company for Alliance Bank, N.A., today announced that it has withdrawn its public offering of approximately $25 million in common stock due to market conditions.
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