Active Extension Strategies Gaining Interest From Plan Sponsors

Active extension strategies, which are relatively new to institutional investors, are already in use or are under consideration by more than half of public defined contribution plans and one-third of corporate plans, based on responses to a new research study. The research was sponsored by RiverSource Investments, LLC, a subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Inc., (NYSE: [...]

BNP Paribas creates institutional long only business in equities and derivatives North America

The FINANCIAL — BNP Paribas is pleased to announce the creation of the Equities and Derivatives Institutional Long Only business in North America.
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Following its great success in developing its Institutional Flow Sales business to Hedge Funds, BNP Paribas has now commenced a significant build out of its client [...]

NASDAQ Announces Nomination of Slate of Directors for Newly Formed NASDAQ OMX Group Board

The FINANCIAL — The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ) (Nasdaq:NDAQ) on February 25 announced the composition of the Board of Directors for The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., effective March 1, 2008. As previously announced, the new Board nominees were selected from the NASDAQ, OMX and Borse Dubai organizations.
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The NASDAQ OMX [...]

Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown expands Dallas and Boston offices

The FINANCIAL — Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, the U.S. Private Client Services (PCS) division of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management, on February 12 announced that Greg Galbraith, Wayne C. McCullough and Dan Delp have joined the firms Dallas office as Client Advisors, reporting to Leslie Greco-Pool, a Director and Dallas Regional Executive.
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Columbia Management Announces Leadership Appointments

The FINANCIAL — BOSTON, Columbia Management on February 5 announced several key leadership appointments in its distribution and portfolio management areas. As of December 31, 2007, Columbia Management and its affiliates managed $643.5 billion in assets (i) for individual and institutional clients.
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According to Bank of America, Columbia Management named Jeffrey F. [...]

Wachovia Opens Office in Geneva

The FINANCIAL — Wachovia Securities announced on January 28 the opening of its newest European Equity sales office in Geneva, Switzerland.
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According to Wachovia, the office is run by Christopher Lobo, managing director, and offers a full-suite of primary and secondary equity products such as ETFs, convertibles and equity structured products [...]

Asian Stocks Rise on China#39;s Economic Growth; Banks Lead Gains

Asian Stocks Rise on Chinas Economic Growth; Banks Lead Gains
By Chen Shiyin and Hanny Wan
Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) — Asian stocks rose for a second day,
led by banks and securities companies, as China grew more than 11
percent and U.S. lawmakers [...]

Merriman Curhan Ford #038; Co. Announces Management Changes

Merriman Curhan Ford %26amp; Co. promoted Brock Ganeles, Herve Francois and Sagiv Shiv in its New York office. Ganeles was promoted to head of institutional securities from director of equities. He will oversee all investment banking and brokerage functions. Prior to Merriman, Ganeles was a director at Credit Suisse in the institutional sales group focused [...]

Co. Announces Management Changes

Merriman Curhan Ford %26amp; Co. promoted Brock Ganeles, Herve Francois and Sagiv Shiv in its New York office. Ganeles was promoted to head of institutional securities from director of equities. He will oversee all investment banking and brokerage functions. Prior to Merriman, Ganeles was a director at Credit Suisse in the institutional sales group focused [...]

Jeffrey L Gould Named Head Of Distribution For Citi Alternative Investments

Gould joins Citi Alternative Investments from Renaissance Technologies,Alternative Investments one of the world’s largest hedge fund managers, where he was president of Renaissance Institutional Management Alternative Investments.

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