Top 50 Annuities

Source: Barron's Online

When wealth manager Peter D'Arruda talks about the "old days" for annuities, he isn't talking about the Roman Empire, where these income-generating insurance products were invented and payments were calculated with ...
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Set for Another Facebook Debut?

Source: Barron's Online

Let Facebook's fumbled stock offering be a warning to anyone thinking about trading Facebook's soon-to-be listed options. Because the stock (ticker: FB) has behaved so atrociously since the initial public offeri ...
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An Alternative to Alternative Hedge Funds

Source: Barron's Online

Investor interest in hedge-fund strategies has never been higher—but it's the mutual-fund industry that seems to be benefiting. Financial advisors and institutions are increasingly turning to alternative strategies to manage portfolio risk, t ...
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S&P Up 1.7%, as Stocks End Three-Week Skid

Source: Barron's Online

Summer's coming, and last week's rising market was a welcome respite after three weeks of declining stock prices. But investors probably shouldn't get too comfortable. Though Wednesday's reversal was technically ...
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A banker, a butler and a businessman: the strange goings on in Vatican City

Source: Irish Times

The reported arrest of the pope’s butler comes amid a week of drama at the Vatican, writes PADDY AGNEW in Rome PERHAPS NOT since the days, 30 years ago, when the Vatican’s Bank, IOR, made all the worst possib ...
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Time to Take the Plunge With European Banks?

Source: Wall Street Journal

Few investments at the moment make Wall Street squirm as much as European bank stocks. A contrarian with an appetite for risk might call that a reason to buy. The European Central Bank might step in, which cou ...
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Interview: Ian McMillan, Airdrie director and former Rangers and Airdrie forward

Source: The Scotsman

RELUCTANT star reflects on an enduring bond with Airdrie and life as a part-timer at Ibrox The McMillan family is deep into Olympic countdown mode as the days tick down to the Great Britain women hockey side’s first appointment, at the end of J ...
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Bain Capital and our screwed-up culture

Source: The Seattle Times

We recently saluted Leslie Sabo for giving his life to save fellow soldiers in Vietnam 40 years ago. Injured after shielding a comrade with his body, the Pennsylvanian grabbed his grenade and stormed the foe's bunker. He died in the expl ...
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Beef Futures Close Moderately Lower

Source: CME Group

DTN Closing Livestock Comments 05/25 15:17 Live and feeder cattle contracts sold off as traders exited for the long Memorial Day weekend. Futures settled moderately lower thanks to long liquidation and a general ...
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