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Advisors to be Trained on Keeping Families and Their Assets Together Over Multiple Generations: The Heritage Institute Announces 2012′s Advanced Training Academies

The Heritage Institute (THI), the world’s foremost authority on multi-generational planning, has announced their Advanced Training Academies’ course dates for the second half of 2012.
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Facebook IPO Live Blog

Facebook makes its debut as a public company on Friday in the most eagerly anticipated IPO of recent years.

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World Debt Crisis: Endgame Scenarios and What They Could Mean for Investor

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Source: 65th CFA Institute Annual Conference




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Buzz on the Street: Facebook Comes to Town and Fails to Save the Day for an Exhausted Market

All day and every day some of the stock market's best and brightest traders and money managers share their ideas insights and analysis in real-time on Minyanville's Buzz & Banter. Below are some excerpts from this week's Buzz. Click here for a 14 day free trial. Note: Some links may require Buzz subscriptions. Monday May 14 2012 Bond Tally Fil Zucchi Please do not bother corporate bond buyers with minutia like an entire continent on the verge of financial anarchy. As of this writing a couple of issuers increased their offerings so that buyers could suck down $ 3.75b of new
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Morgan Stanley Gaining Analyst Favor (Update1)

Morgan Stanley update includes UBS upgrade

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Morgan Stanleyshares have taken a beating of late, but a pair of analysts got behind the stock on Friday.

UBS analyst Brennan Hawken upgraded Morgan Stanley to “buy” from neutral with a report titled “enough is enough,” and JPMorgan analyst Kian Abouhossein argues the shares look more attractive than those of Goldman Sachs on a short-term basis. Moody’s has said it may lower Morgan Stanley’s credit rating to just one notch above junk. …

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Rolling your 401(k) to a IRA? Think twice

Your employer’s 401(k) might be a better place for your retirement savings than a retail IRA

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The Never Ending Attempts to Eliminate Regulations, Or Why Has Canada Figured This Out While the US Acts Like a Nation Run by Warlord-Banker-Lobbyists ?

Courtesy of snarling bank critics Chris Whalen & Josh Rosner, have a look at 1994′s GAO/GGD-94-133 — its in the Think Tank doc FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES: Actions Needed to Protect the Financial System.

Reining in bank recklessness seems to be a never ending task. Unless and until we either go full blown Canadian, or alternatively ringfence the speculative portions from the insured portions, the system remains at risk.

Perhaps my Libertarian friends are right: Eliminate FDIC guarantees, and let depostors flee to local and community banks . . .




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Minyanville’s T3 Daily Recap: Dow Keeps Dropping, Traders Look Ahead to Facebook IPO

Stocks fell again Wednesday with the Nasdaq the hardest hit index falling 0.68%. The Dow (^DJI) fell for the tenth time in 11 sessions but held up best shedding only 0.26%. Anxiety over Greece continues to run rampant and it seems almost inevitable that they are headed for the eurozone exit door. Investors were looking forward to today's Fed minutes for possible hints of QE3 but the status quo was little-changed within the FOMC. The last Fed meeting that was reflected within these minutes came before all of the May selling in the market which could lead to a different
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Vintage Cerritos Seniors Win Big at California Wii Bowling State Championship

Wii Bowling Rejuvenates Team Spirit, Builds Friendships and Promotes Mental and Physical Exercise Among Vintage Senior Living Residents
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Cramer’s ‘Mad Money’ Recap: Europe-Proof Sectors, Stocks

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) — With Europe back in the driver’s seat, Jim Cramer pondered which U.S. stocks are the most vulnerable. He told his “Mad Money” TV show viewers Wednesday that while a 10% pullback ala 2010 doesn’t seem likely, some sectors are more vulnerable than others. …

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