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Transferring partial property rights to a preservation group offers financial and non-financial rewards at acceptable costs as long as the proper procedures are followed.

Bonds from Puerto Rico's record $3.5 billion general-obligation sale accounted for one-third of the trading volume of the entire $3.7 trillion municipal market on the day of their issue.

Emerging-market stocks headed for the steepest weekly drop since June while currencies weakened amid growing concerns that China's economic slowdown and Russia's standoff with the West will spur capital outflows.

Those who wanted to greatly expand the power of government over the financial sector, took full advantage of the opportunity, write a former FDIC chairmen and a former president of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago.

Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., cut holdings of Treasuries and U.S. government debt in February as turmoil in Ukraine fueled haven demand and investors bet the Federal Reserve will conclude bond purchases this year.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index fell, erasing a gain for the year, while Treasuries and the yen advanced on demand for haven assets as tension persisted in Ukraine. Copper declined as data from China missed estimates and gold reversed losses.

RBC Wealth Management is adding new names to its top executive team, announcing a new head of International Wealth-USA.

The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index dropped to a month low on concern the crisis in Ukraine will escalate before Crimea’s residents vote in a separatist poll. Russia’s Micex Index tumbled to the lowest since 2010.

IMCA and CAIA are teaming up to fill in a knowledge gap about alternative investments, offering a new online education program that teaches the basics to the uninitiated.

Lifestyle practices get a bad rap. But one of my main goals when starting my RIA was to build a business and a life that met my needs.