If You’re Leery Of Investment Advice You’re Getting

I am going to retire in 2009. The financial adviser for my company has told me that he doesn’t like index funds for retirement. He says they are fine in the accumulation phase but not good in the distribution years because of volatility. My index funds - Vanguard 500, Total International, Total Bond, and Total [...]

Gagfah Profit Triples on Revenue From Apartment Sales

Gagfah Profit Triples on Revenue From Apartment Sales (Update3)
By Peter Woodifield
March 19 (Bloomberg) — Gagfah SA, Germanys largest
publicly traded owner of residential real estate, said annual
profit more than tripled as the company doubled apartment sales
to tenants and its properties gained [...]

IVG Shares Decline After Analysts Cut Their Ratings

IVG Shares Decline After Analysts Cut Their Ratings (Update3)
By Peter Woodifield and Andrew Blackman
March 19 (Bloomberg) — IVG Immobilien AG, Germanys
largest commercial real estate company, fell by the most in
three months in Frankfurt trading after two analysts cut their
ratings for [...]

Luxury hotel planned for portion of former IBM Building

The new hotel will be located across the street from the hotel, residential and retail development under construction by Donald Trump.
“We love the location,” said John Rutledge, chief executive of Oxford Capital. “The fact that it is next to the Trump tower %26#8230; only validates that this is a good location for a hotel.”
The unnamed [...]

Fannie Mae Global Crossing Neutral Tandem U.S. Equity Movers

Fannie Mae, Global Crossing, Neutral Tandem: U.S. Equity Movers
By Fabio Alves
March 13 (Bloomberg) — The following is a list of companies
whose shares had unusual price changes in U.S. markets. Stock
symbols are in parentheses after company names, and prices are as
of [...]

Deutsche Bank announces the appointment of Tim Ryan and Hugh Macdonald

The FINANCIAL – Deutsche Bank on March 11 announced the appointment of Tim Ryan and Hugh Macdonald as co-heads of its Real Estate Investment Banking (REIB) team in Australia and New Zealand.
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Ryan joins the team in Sydney from New York where he is a Managing Director in the REIB team working [...]

India Stocks Preview Jindal Stainless Neyveli Tata Unitech

India Stocks Preview: Jindal Stainless, Neyveli, Tata, Unitech
By M.C. Govardhana Rangan and Shailendra Bhatnagar
March 14 (Bloomberg) — The following stocks may rise or
fall in Mumbai today. Prices refer to the previous close. The
preview includes news that broke after the markets [...]

India shares drop 4.8 pct to sixmonth closing low

(Updates to close)
By Hiral Vora
MUMBAI, March 13 (Reuters) - Indian shares slumped 4.78
percent on Thursday to their lowest close in more than six
months as investors grappled with fears of a local slowdown,
rising inflation, the risk of a U.S. recession and credit
market problems.
Leading property firm DLF Ltd (DLF.BO: [...]

CBRE explores its options

NEW YORK (AP) — A potential sale of real estate investment trust CBRE Realty Finance Inc. is far from certain but possible as the company has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to review strategic alternatives, a research analyst said.Citi Investment Research analyst Donald Fandetti said Arbor Realty (ABR), one of CBRE Realty’s (CBF) largest shareholders, [...]

GREECE Factors to Watch on March 14

ATHENS, March 14 (Reuters) - Here are news stories,
press reports and events which may affect Greek financial
markets on Friday:
ATEBANK SEES 10-15 PCT PROFIT GROWTH FROM BALKANS
ATEbank (AGBr.AT: Quote, Profile, Research), Greece’s sixth-largest lender,
expects to be generating about 10 to 15 percent of its
earnings from Romania and Serbia by [...]