Star Athletes Real Estate Investment Sours

New England Patriots offensive lineman Matt Light and about 20 other star athletes loaned more than $8 million to a California real estate company that teamed up with Fidelity Investments and Citigroup Inc. to invest in apartment complexes before collapsing and filing for bankruptcy protection.
Light, Toronto Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay and Los Angeles Angels [...]

People Players Friday Edition

With a high school degree at age 15, a college degree at 19, and a Harvard MBA at 22, media banker Lisbeth Barron got an early start on Wall Street. But after more than 20 years in the business and 11 years at Bear Stearns before its implosion, she wasn’t just looking for a place [...]

Councils Seeking Independent Financial Advice

The two largest advice businesses servicing this market, Grove Research and Advisory and Oakvale Capital, have reported an increase in enquiries for investment advice from NSW councils since the inquiry.
Enquiries are emanating from councils that previously did not receive financial advice and councils that had advice providers which have now been excluded by the Cole [...]

Selects Eagle Access Asp Solution

Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a leading provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon, today announced that Ark Asset Management Co., Inc. (Ark), a leading investment management firm in the institutional marketplace, will transition its installation of the Eagle investment management suite, which is currently managed in-house, to [...]

Deals Deal Makers 2008: Ken Lewis Tells Investment Bankers All Is Forgiven

Many people see the financial-services sector as somewhat monolithic. Not so Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis, who isn’t afraid to talk about Bank of America’s commercial-banking dominance and rub it in the face of investment banks.
In a discussion with The Wall Street Journal’s Money & Investing editor, Nik Deogun, at today’s Deals & Deal [...]

Hong Leong About To Have Investment Bank

Hong Leong Financial Group Bhd (HLFG) has obtained Finance Ministry and the Securities Commission (SC) approvals for its proposed acquisition of certain assets and liabilities of Southern Investment Bank Bhd and the entire equity interest in SBB Securities Sdn Bhd.
The development moves it closer to having an investment bank in its stable of companies, thus [...]

SunTrust Investment Services offers new retirement planning program

SunTrust Investment Services, a subsidiary of SunTrust Banks, has announced a new, coordinated multi-channel approach to retirement planning called Retirement GamePlan, which provides clients with the tools to plan for retirement.
SunTrust has developed Retirement GamePlan as a way for clients of all ages and income levels to more easily plan to reach their retirement goals [...]

For Some Speculators, Safaricoms 50 Percent Gain Was Not Good Enough

Even as Safaricom notched a stellar 50 per cent increase in its share price on the first day of trading, for some investors, it was not a good debut for the telecoms giant.
For thousands of investors, many of who had borrowed expensively for interest rates of up to 20 per cent, Safaricom represented a major [...]

Major Economic Indicators Perform Negatively In 2007-08

ISLAMABAD: All major economic indicators, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), exports, Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM), saving and investment and tax collections witnessed negative growth in the outgoing fiscal year 2007-08.
Foreign Direct Investment: According to the State Bank of Pakistan data, the net foreign private investment during July-March 2007-08 has declined by 46.3 percent over the corresponding [...]

Coldwell Banker Commercial Trademark Properties Announces New Real Estate Advisor

Billie Redmond, CEO of Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties has announced that Allison Mitwol has joined the firm as a real estate advisor. In this position, Mitwol will specialize in the brokerage and leasing of retail properties in the Triangle area. Mitwol completed three years of work in residential sales before transitioning to commercial leasing [...]