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Raymond James this week said financial advisors John Nice, Brian Trujillo, Steven Ringquist and Bradley Trujillo, collectively working as The Nice Group, have joined the firm’s office in Denver.

Marketing expert Marie Swift explains how an automated process can help you create a conversation and keep the connection alive until your prospects are ready to wade into the water with you.

The hiring brings the total number of employees in the Wichita office to four.

Unforeseen, costly emergencies and expenses are a given in every life. Eleanor Blayney, CFB Board's consumer advocate said: "It's just as important to protect our finances – or indeed anything we value – from loss, as it is to grow our wealth."

Barclays has added a quartet of investment reps from Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney to bolster its wealth and investment management group in New York.

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On May 16, 2012, Boston-based alternative mutual fund provider Direxion has made changes to the investment strategy of Direxion S&P 1500 RC Volatility Response Shares (VSPR), Direxion S&P 500 RC Volatility Response Shares (VSPY) and Direxion S&P Latin America 40 RC Volatility Response Shares (VLAT), effective June 14.

Institutional investors that began using exchange-traded funds for manager transitions, rebalancing and other tactical applications are increasingly using these products for more strategic purposes.

On May 16, 2012, Atlanta-based Angel Oak Capital Advisors, LLC, a fixed income asset management shop, today revealed that its Angel Oak Multi-Strategy Income Fund is now on the Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management platform.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has passed along a request to the Financial Accounting Standards Board that it consider making changes in how to account for derivatives contracts designated as hedging instruments.

Efficient and effective mutual fund board meetings are vital to the success of a mutual fund family, no matter their size and/or complexity.

Individual investors have been flocking to municipal bond funds, searching for safety and relatively high yields.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Tuesday that the $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan Chase makes a "powerful case" for the financial reforms being implemented under the Dodd-Frank Act.

Pacific Investment Management Company, of course, runs the world's largest mutual fund. Its Total Return Fund counts assets of nearly one-quarter of a trillion dollars.

According to the 2012 Natixis Global Asset Management U.S. Advisor survey, the global financial crisis and uncertain market recovery has accelerated interest in alternative investing.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average shaved off another 63.35 points to close at 12,632.00 Tuesday while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 lost 8.82 points and 7.69 points, respectively.

On MAy 15, 2012, The International Securities Exchange and AlphaClone LLC, a provider of hedge fund position replication, announced their partnership to promote AlphaClone's innovative hedge fund position replication index, the AlphaClone Hedge Fund Long/Short Index.

Wunderlich Securities has added six wealth management professionals, including five from Morgan Keegan. In the past six weeks, 15 people have moved from Memphis-based Morgan Keegan to Memphis-based Wunderlich.

The companies, based in Fort Lauderdale and San Francisco respectively, have been fighting an uphill battles against larger competitors. They said in a press release Tuesday that the merger will create a firm, with the scale and resources to provide an alternative for independent investors.