02/Jul 2008 | "Now That I Got That Hedge Fund (Or Fund Of Fund): What Is It Worth?" Webinar Examines The Monetization Of Hedge Fund Management Firms | Business News. "Now That I Got That Hedge Fund (Or Fund Of Fund): What Is It Worth?" Webinar Examines The Monetization Of Hedge Fund Management Firms . "Now That I Got That Hedge Fund (Or Fund Of Fund... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | The Other Real Estate Disaster | Your state's employee pension fund is probably (a) doing badly with recent real estate pools and (b) working very hard with the private equity operators of these pools to keep you in the dark. Scott ... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | KWIC | Kennedy-Wilson is an integrated, international real estate services and investment company. provides fund management of real estate and note pool investments; commercial and residential property manag... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | GLOBALISATION: West s Loss of Gulf Funds East s Gain | GLOBALISATION: West s Loss of Gulf Funds East s Gain Analysis by Meena Janardhan DUBAI, Jul 3 (IPS) - As politically motivated restrictions on investments by oil-rich countries intensify in the West, ... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Keeping Up with China | If you were thinking of getting around the booze ban at local beaches and state parks this holiday weekend by pouring your adult beverage into a different container, the plan just got more difficult. ... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Prudential acquires 40% stake in local asset manager GAP | US financial services group Prudential (NYSE: PRU) has entered into a strategic partnership with GAP Asset Management, acquiring approximately 40% of the Brazilian financial group, Prudential said in ... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Grubb & Ellis Apartment REIT Acquires AMLI at Kedron Village in Peachtree City, Ga | Grubb & Ellis Apartment REIT, Inc. today announced the acquisition of AMLI at Kedron Village, a 216-unit Class A multifamily community in the Atlanta suburb of Peachtree City, Ga. Located at 100 Hyaci... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Angle Energy Inc. - Exchange of share certificates | NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWS SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION INTO THE UNITED STATES/ TSX: NGL CALGARY,. ("Angle") became a publicly traded company listed on the TSX Exchange. Angle has ado... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | IMF Executive Board Concludes 2008 Article IV Consultation with Cape Verde | Cape Verde and completed the fourth review of the Policy Support Instrument (PSI).1 Background Over the last several years, Cape Verde has achieved a major economic transformation. Real per capita GD... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Ex-hedge fund manager surrenders, sent to New York | Wednesday to small-town police in . Ex-hedge fund manager surrenders, sent to New York SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (Reuters) - Fugitive former hedge fund manager Samuel Israel III drove a motor scooter to a ... Read » |
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02/Jul 2008 | Daily Wrap-up - A Close at the Lows | I have followed Bernie for several years and have tremendous respect for the work that your organization provides. I described the midday action as "reluctant" but that deteriorated into something nas... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | TSX plunges 433 points | TORONTO The Toronto stock market plunged more than 400 points Wednesday, its biggest one-day drop in more than three months as investors worried that slowing economic conditions in North America a... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | SNSFE Investigates Evergreen Ultra Short Opportunities Fund | BOND FUND LOSSES LINKED TO MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES. Investor Angst, Regulatory Probes And Litigation Intensify Over Auction Rate Securities . Securities Regulator Issues Warning Regarding Reverse M... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | TSX suffers biggest one-day drop in months | The Toronto stock market plunged more than 400 points Wednesday, its biggest one-day drop in more than three months as investors worried that slowing economic conditions in North America and Europe wi... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Buckeye Technologies Fourth Quarter & Fiscal Year 2008 Earnings Results Schedule | Submit Article. Analyst Comments: VeriFone, Research In Motion, Equity Residential, Pervasive Software, Interactive Data Jul 02, 2008 04:39 PM. From The Big Three to the Not-So-Big Two? Jul 02, 2008 0... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Leading independent proxy firm, RiskMetrics ISS Canada, recommends securityholders vote for the arrangement involving the acquisition of Gemcom Softwa | Leading independent proxy firm, RiskMetrics ISS Canada, recommends securityholders vote for the arrangement involving the acquisition of Gemcom Software. (TSX:GCM), the largest global supplier of spec... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Patheon Reaches Agreement with BSP Pharmaceuticals for Development and Manufacture of Cytotoxics | Patheon (TSX:PTI), a global provider of drug development and manufacturing services to the international pharmaceutical industry, has completed a shareholders agreement and a sales and marketing agree... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | MakeMusic Added to Russell Microcap Index | MakeMusic, Inc. (Nasdaq: MMUS) today announced it has been added to the Russell Microcap Index after the Russell Investment Group reconstituted its comprehensive set of U. Russell indexes are widely u... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Raj Mehra | Accounting Issues. Financial Services Council Raj Mehra is the President of Chelsea Advisory Services, a financial risk and forensic accounting advisory firm in Washington DC. He has over 21 years of ... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Bearish on Government Bonds | 09:03 PM. Entercom Partners with FlyTunes to Deliver Mobile Radio Streams and WORLDSPACE(R), Inc. Reaches Agreement to Defer Debt Payment Jul 02, 2008 09:00 PM. Grains strong at the finish Wednesday ... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Toronto stock index falls sharply on weak resources | Today's big losers on the TSX. TORONTO -- The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index traded sharply lower on Wednesday as coal producers fell in tandem with the price of the commodity and weak U. Swingin... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Investing Insights: UnitedHealth, First of the Earnings Warnings? | So far, it s been a relatively quiet week on Wall Street. But the calm is deceptive because the market is going through a crucial quarterly waiting period, right after the end of the quarter but befor... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Southwest Bancorp, Inc. Announces Issuance of $30 Million Trust Preferred Securities | STILLWATER, Okla., July 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: OKSB), ("Southwest"), announced that Southwest Capital Trust II, a statutory trust formed under the laws of the Sta... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Willis Acquisition of Hilb Rogal & | Willis Group Holdings Limited (NYSE: WSH), the global insurance broker, today announced that the U. Federal Trade Commission has cleared review of Willis' pending acquisition of Hilb Rogal & Hobbs ("H... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Click to continue reading "CIT Completes Exit of Home Lending Business" | Filed Under Goldman Sachs , Lenders With Problems 2007 , Lenders With Problems 2008 , Merger/Acquisitions , Mortgage Implosion , Mortgage News. (NYSE: CIT), a leading global commercial finance company... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Jeff Epstein's Lucrative And Mysterious Profession | What is it that convicted sex-criminal Jeffrey Epstein does? We mean apart from pay very young women for sexually charged massages? What is it he does for his clients? The New York Times sent business... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Clear Channel Announces the Termination of its Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation for Clear Channel Senior Notes | We believe Clear Channel's people are our most important asset. Our teams make the critical difference in how we perform and their skills, talents and determination separate us from our competitors. W... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | DHX Media Invests CAD $2M in Tribal Nova | DHX Media Ltd. , a producer of children's television and interactive content, has bought a 16. Tribal Nova has produced or licensed rights to over 500 games and virtual worlds featuring mostly childre... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Irish Pensions: 15 billion wiped off the value of Irish Managed Funds in 2008 as recession strikes | 3:51: PM. Irish Pensions: 15 billion wiped off the value of Irish Managed Funds in 2008 as recession strikes . Fears of a global recession sent equity markets into freefall last month. As a result, ... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Prod. Updates - PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust Fund to Be | The PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust (the Trust ) is a management investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act ). The Trust consists of 75 e... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Launch of TVS Shriram Growth Fund | TVS Capital Funds mobilizes Rs.500crores of capital for establishment of growth equity fund to empower nextgen entrepreneurs . TVS Shriram Growth Fund is an India focused growth equity fund that is es... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | K. Susan Billiot Joins Patriot Coal as Senior Vice President of Human Resources | High Desert Gold's Reconnaissance Program Locates Strong Gold Mineralization on Its Kinkaid Property, Mineral County, Nevada -12 Minutes Ago High Desert Gold Corporation is pleased to announce that th... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Diversification Driving Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange Growth And Future Strategy - Strategic Partnerships Will Internationalise Abu Dhabi s Sto | Diversification Driving Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange Growth And Future Strategy - Strategic Partnerships Will Internationalise Abu Dhabi s Stock Market . 02/07/08 The launch of exchange traded funds... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | MXB | MSCI INC. Files SEC form 8-K, Results of Operations and Financial Condition, Regulation FD Disclosure, Financial Stat EDGAR Online . InPlay: MSCI Inc says Morgan Stanley to sell approximately half its... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals Announces $100 Million Investment to Support Launch of MOXATAG | Strategic Review Results in $100MM Investment by Equity Group Investments; GERMANTOWN, Md., July 01, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a pharmaceutical company focused... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Bahrain grants license to Lazard Asset Management | The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) has granted a license to Lazard Asset Management to establish a representative office in Bahrain will be managed by Edward Remington-Hobbs, Lazard Asset Management's ... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | MSCI Inc. Reports Record Revenues for Second Quarter 2008 | BUSINESS WIRE) -- MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MXB), a leading global provider of investment decision support tools, including indices and portfolio risk and performance analytics, today announced results for the... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Davis Polk Elects 2 New Tax Partners | Davis Polk & Wardwell has announced that Neil Barr and Paula A. Ryan have been elected partners of the firm effective July 1, 2008. Davis Polk now has 168 partners in its offices in New York, Menlo Pa... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Delay sought for casino's amphitheater, docks | Hours after he was identified as the savior of Pittsburgh's casino project, billionaire Neil Bluhm stood Monday evening on a glass staircase at the center of his contemporary high-rise apartment overl... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Judge Clears U.S. Request for UBS Clients Names | Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 4:49 a. A federal judge cleared the way on Tuesday for prosecutors to force the Swiss banking giant UBS to turn over the names of wealthy clients as part of an investigation... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Giving the dream | When asked about the turmoil currently engulfing Western economies, the chief executive of Bramdean Asset Management is characteristically forthright. This all feels like the last days of the Roman E... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | PIPE deals in telecom, BFSI, retail survive market meltdown | Notwithstanding the recent market turmoil, private equity investment in some of the listed companies in retail, BFSI, and telecom sectors have managed to give decent returns of as much as 40 per cent,... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | SWITZERLAND: Tax scandal leaves Swiss giant reeling | SWITZERLAND: Tax scandal leaves Swiss giant reeling by Nick Mathiason,The Guardian (UK) June 29th, 2008 . It was an offer the Californian real-estate billionaire Igor Olenicoff couldn't refuse. For ... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Why Are Gold Stocks So Cheap? Down Under | The Mid and small sized Australian resource stocks have been sold down to unrealistic levels scary to even some sophisticated investors who have contacted me lately. As mentioned by one becoming ... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | General Atlantic completes ConAgra purchase | Greenwich-based buyout firm General Atlantic Partners LLC has joined two New York-based investment funds in completing the multibillion-dollar purchase a division of ConAgra Foods Inc.-based packaged ... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Fortune 500 lender CIT Group sells off units for $1.8 billion to exit home lending | Commercial lender CIT Group Inc. agreed to sell its home lending business to private equity firm Lone Star Funds for $1.5 billion in cash to increase liquidity, and will take a related second-quarter ... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Equity risk warning to retirement fund plans | Why Tesco shares are an absolute steal. Mortgages top 6pc for the first time in seven years . More than half of adults risk their assets by making no will. PEOPLE in defined contribution pension schem... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Tracking Mean Reversion After Bad Months | New ETFs. Does your investment approach have you in the dark? Feel like having an advisor or portfolio manager is like the blind leading the blind? Maybe it is time to take control of your portfolio w... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Sooner or later, most hedge fund strategies pay off | Condiment Manufacturing. I have a habit of discussing in this column hedge fund strategies and ideas that are out of favour. Sometimes I am right in recommending out-of-favour ideas, sometimes I am wr... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | SICO sponsors Bahrain's reception at IMF/ World Bank meeting | Securities & Investment Company (SICO) has confirmed its sponsorship of Bahrain's financial sector reception taking place in Washington DC, USA, at the start of the IMF/World Bank meetings to be held ... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Lone Star Funds of Dallas buys more subprime | Lone Star Funds, a Dallas-based investment firm, has agreed to buy the home-lending business of New York-based CIT Group Inc., raising its bet on the subprime mortgage industry, which is at the center... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Zestra says it's bankrupt | A financially drained North Charleston company that has struggled to pump up sales of its sexual arousal product has filed for bankruptcy protection and is seeking approval to sell its business. said ... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | CDO Creators Seek Redemption, and Profits, From Subprime Mortgage Market | Money managers including TCW Group Inc. and Harding Advisory LLC that topped the list of firms behind the most toxic mortgage securities have raised more than $4. At least half of the 20 top managers ... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Starbucks to shut 600 U.S. stores | SEATTLE - Starbucks Corp. said Tuesday it will close 600 company-operated stores in the next year, up dramatically from its previous plan for 100 closures, a sign the coffee shop operator continues to... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Haverhill mayor: School, city merger is not 'power grab' He offers guarantees to School Committee | School, city merger is not 'power grab' He offers guarantees to School Committee By Shawn Regan Staff Writer HAVERHILL Mayor James Fiorentini is a lawyer by trade, but these days he's become a sales... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Stockprofit.Com Technical Trading Alert: Murphy Oil Corporation (Nyse: Mur) | StockProfit.com Issues a Technical Trading Alert on Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE: MUR) Los Angeles, CA 7/02/2008 04:04 AM GMT (TransWorldNews) . Los Angeles, CA ---July 2nd, 2008 ----Tony Golan, Chie... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Fitch Affirms National Commercial Bank Jamaica Ratings; Outlook Stable | 06:36:07 - - Fitch Ratings has affirmed the following Jamaica-based National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited (NCBJ) ratings: --Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at 'B+... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | InBev takeover adds millions to executives' severance | Anheuser-Busch Cos. executives may fret about InBev's proposed takeover, but a deal would mean a big payout for senior managers. Busch IV stands to pocket $31 million in severance benefits if Anheuser... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | What The World's Wealthiest Buy | U. consumer confidence may be at its lowest in 16 years, but the world's ultra-rich who like to spend their money on things or experiences that will enhance their lifestyle, such as travel or jewelry,... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Pass This Test, Then We'll Talk | Before a job applicant at Nationwide Auto Insurance even sees or speaks to a human being at the company, the candidate must pass two rounds of online tests. One is a personality test that weeds out ca... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | JGBs up on Nikkei, capped before 10-year auction | JGBs rebound from Tuesday's slide as Nikkei drops * Bonds' upside capped before 10-year auction * ECB meeting, US jobless data eyed with caution By Shinichi Saoshiro TOKYO, July 2 (Reuters) - Japanese... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | PRXI | Premier Exhibitions Schedules Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008 Earnings Release and Teleconference PrimeNewswire. Files SEC form 8-K, Change in Directors or Principal Officers EDGAR Online +8. File... Read » |
02/Jul 2008 | Starbucks to Shut More Stores, Cut Jobs | Starbucks Corp. on Tuesday effectively ended its era of blanket expansion by saying it will close 500 more locations in the U. The pullback is a sign that the Seattle-based coffee giant is continuing ... Read » |
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