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Pursue Tax-Advantaged Income With Municipal Bonds
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May 26, 2011 @ 10:10 am |
When it comes to bond yields, sometimes less is more. While municipal bonds, or "munis," usually have a stated yield several percentage points below those on comparable corporate or government bonds, the interest paid on municipal issues is generally exempt from federal and, in some cases, state and local taxes. For that reason, a municipal bond may actually provide a similar or higher yield than those other options after taxes are taken into account....
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Benefits of an IRA LLC
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May 26, 2011 @ 10:07 am |
An IRA LLC, or Individual Retirement Account Limited Liability Company, has a lot of benefits compared to hiring a custodian to handle your investments. The IRA LLC gives you complete control over your self-directed IRA investments, opening up a wide range of options, including that of non recourse loans to invest in real estate. The self directed IRA owns shares of LLC and you can route all your transactions through the LLC, rather than through the IRA....
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Effective Financial Goal: The Five Characteristics
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May 26, 2011 @ 9:55 am |
In financial management studies, an effective financial goal should have 5 characteristics which could be easily remembered as S-M-A-R-T. This article explains all the 5 characteristics to ensure that our goals are meaningful and get us closer to financial freedom....
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UPDATE: Koval Sentenced in Insider Trading Case
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May 26, 2011 @ 8:03 am |
On March 24, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged in a Complaint (SEC Complaint) filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York that Defendant Igor Poteroba, an investment banker in UBS Securities LLCs Global Healthcare Group in New York City, tipped his friend Defendant Aleksey Koval with confidential inside information about impending transactions involving pharmaceutical companies. Koval, who held positions at securities industry firms at the time, then traded in stocks and options of the companies targeted for acquisition. Koval...
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Dividends Can Signal Growth Potential in Emerging Markets, Says Forward Management
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May 26, 2011 @ 7:21 am |
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dividend-paying stocks in emerging markets tend to outperform non-dividend-paying stocks through a complete market cycle, according to new study released by Forward Management, LLC (Forward). The study suggests that the “dividend signal,” a process of using dividends as a filter to help identify stocks with higher- than-average growth potential, may be even more valuable to emerging markets investors than those in developed markets, where the trend was initially i
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CFD Trading
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May 26, 2011 @ 7:09 am |
Contracts of Difference are a dynamic substitute to conventional trading. The concept and theory of CFD trading is elementary....
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Your Memorial Day Reading from BrokeAndBroker
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Morgan Keegan's FINRA Arbitration Settled -- sez who?
May 26, 2011
In a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Arbitration Statement of Claim filed in December 2009, Claimants asserted causes of actio... Read On
Claimant Throws Kitchen Sink at UBS -- But Gets Flushed Down the Drain
May 26, 2011
In a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Arbitration Statement of Claim filed in October 2008, Claimant Charles Churchill asserted the f... Re...
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Morgan Keegan's FINRA Arbitration Settled -- sez who?
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May 26, 2011 @ 6:48 am |
In a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Arbitration Statement of Claim filed in December 2009, Claimants asserted causes of action including negligence and unsuitability in connection with the purchase in their account of RMK Select High Income Fund. That Fund (Regions Morgan Keegan (RMK)) was an open-end fund with assets in the subprime mortgage market through collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).
Claimants sought no less than $340,000.00 in compensatory damages plus prejudgment interest (approximately $40,000); costs; and attorneys' fees (one-third of the fe...
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Claimant Throws Kitchen Sink at UBS -- But Gets Flushed Down the Drain
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May 26, 2011 @ 6:46 am |
In a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Arbitration Statement of Claim filed in October 2008, Claimant Charles Churchill asserted the following causes of action:
violations of the discrimination provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ("ADA") and the New York City Human Rights Law ("NYCHRL"),
misrepresentations,
breach of contract,
violations of
standards of commercial honor,
just and equitable principles of trade,
the duty of good faith and fair dealing,
interference with existing and prospective business relationships, and
intentional and negl...
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Getting the Business from BizRadio
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May 26, 2011 @ 6:42 am |
On May 20, 2011, in Securities And Exchange Commission v. David Gordon Wallace, Jr. And Costa Bajjali (SD Texas, 11-CV-1932, May 20, 2011), the SEC filed a Complaint seeking civil money penalties and a permanent injunction from future violations of federal securities laws.
NOTE: The allegations in the Complaint are merely accusations and Defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
SIDE BAR: This suit is a related case to:
SEC v. Albert Fase Kaleta and Kaleta Capital Management (Case No. 4:09-cv-03674, filed November 13, 2009); also, see SEC S...
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 Victims of "Three Hebrew Boys" $80 Million Ponzi Scheme Receive Distribution Checks Totaling Nearly Half of Their Investment
- The court-appointed receiver of the Three Hebrew Boys Ponzi scheme has
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Facebook expected to price at $38 and#8212; minimum
- Facebook Inc. is close to pricing its initial public offering for at least $38 a...
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Erica Williams Named SEC's Deputy Chief of Staff
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James Burns Named Deputy Director in SEC's Division of Trading and Markets
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SEC Charges Seattle-Based Fund Manager for Secretly Diverting Client Funds to His Own Start-Up Companies
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SEC close to naming temporary watchdog: Sources
- FDIC inspector general Jon Rymer is said to be in final discussions to temporari...
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SEC looking at hedge fund as part of CDO inquiry
- Regulators are investigating Magnetar Capital for its role in putting together p...
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Yorkville High Income MLP ETF (YMLP) Declares First Quarterly Distribution
- NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Yorkville High Income MLP ETF (NYSE: YMLP) declar...
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Alternatives funds finally catching on and#8212; but are they the wrong ones?
- Fund companies are increasingly cranking out mutual funds that invest in alterna...
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Rhode Island Attorney Admits to Mortgage Ponzi Scheme
- A Rhode Island attorney faces as much as seventy years in prison after
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MF Global clients bash fat fees, seek quick wind-down
- A customer group plans to ask that the brokerage's bankruptcy case be streamline...
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SEC charges fund manager with fraud
- A federal grand jury indicted a former chairman of a national financial planning...
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Schwab to hold off enforcing class action waivers
- The brokerage plans to wait until the end of a FINRA disciplinary proceeding bef...
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MBIA solvency analysis was flawed, banks argue
- A consulting firm hired to analyze the bond insurer's health missed a "sizeable"...
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Gupta trial could feature big corporate stars
- Lloyd Blankfein, Warren Buffett and other well-known chieftains of corporate Ame...
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CFTC expected to ease trading curbs - sources
- The move allows the embattled agency to show it is listening to industry concern...
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Corporate settlement policy unlikely to be changed by Congress
- Officials from four agencies told lawmakers that requiring admissions of miscond...
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Lawmakers seek info in Wal-Mart corruption probe
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Breaking News: Lloyds Bails on Allied Home Mortgage
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Two Guilty in $12 Million Ponzi Scheme
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SEC Eyes Dendreon, Possibly Over Provenge Launch
- Dendreon Corp. has recently become the subject of a U.S. Securities and Exchange...
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Schwab to close brokersXpress: Sources
- Sources say Charles Schwab is shutting down brokersXpress. According to people f...
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German Bank Slams Barclays With $133M MBS Suit
- DZ Bank AG hit Barclays Bank PLC and several affiliates on Tuesday with a suit i...
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Don King's Co. Sends Rothstein Clawback To District Court
- A fraudulent transfer suit brought against Don King Productions Inc. by the Chap...
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SEC Charges U.S. Perpetrators in $35 Million International Boiler Room Scheme
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Repsol Hits Argentina With US Class Action In YPF Fight
- Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF SA hit Argentina with a proposed class action in Ne...
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Gupta Loses Bid To Keep Rajaratnam Wiretap From Jury
- A federal judge on Wednesday refused former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Ra...
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Suits Over JPMorgan's $2B Loss Could Haunt Bank
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. investors hit the bank with securities fraud class actions ...
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Top House Republican Questions JPMorgan Uproar
- A top House Republican on Wednesday backed JPMorgan Chase & Co. following the ba...
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Ex-Morgan Stanley Legal Chief Rejoins Ranks At Cravath
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Cookin' the Book$: Say Pasta la Vista to Corporate Accounting Tricks and Fraud
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