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1. The case made for dividend-paying stocks
(Money/Economy)

... Treasury inflation protected securities (TIPS). A third speaker, David Antonelli, chief investment officer for non-U.S. investments, recommended emerging markets for long-term investors. Today, they ...

2. Investment advisor Maxwell Smith quilty of scamming elderly of $9.8 million
(N.J./State)

... which represents the amount taken from them less amounts he returned to the investors as purported interest. Smith faces a federal prison sentence to be determined by the federal court judge. The state ...

3. Christie asks Corzine to freeze state spending
(N.J./State)

... for New Jersey kicks in and tax revenue increases. “That’s a big number when you consider a budget of $28.5 billion,’’ Grady said. Grady and Bagger said they intend to meet with Moody’s Investors Service, ...

4. New Jersey, Ohio settle pension fund suit with insurer
(N.J./State)

States alleged investors mislead by company's business practices Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. has tentatively settled a class action lawsuit filed by state pension funds in New Jersey and Ohio ...

5. $5.6m settlement in state securities fraud case against former Tyco board member Frank Walsh Jr.
(Money/Economy)

... fraud, state Attorney General Anne Milgram announced Thursday. The state had charged that Walsh, an independent director, had taken an improper payment that was not disclosed to investors in connection ...

6. New foreclosure data a mixed bag for New Jersey real estate
(Money/Economy)

... actually paying the minimum. During the housing bubble, banks commonly packaged those risky loans, and their phantom profits, into securities sold to Wall Street investors. That in turn led to the collapse ...

7. Jersey City man sentenced for bilking investors nearly $1M
(N.J./State)

... included the owners of two Jersey City check-cashing businesses. An investigation by the Division of Criminal Justice Major Crimes Bureau revealed that Sewnath stole nearly $1 million from the investors. Sewnath ...

8. Monmouth’s Michael D’Angelo going to prison for stealing from investors
(N.J./State)

... imposed today," said Attorney General Milgram. "We are doing everything in our power to recover the funds he stole from investors." The Division of Criminal Justice has filed a civil forfeiture action ...

9. Decimal place Scandal and secret software used by Goldman Sachs
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... Sachs, upon Wall Street transitioning to fractions and the abolishment of the uptick rule, designed secret software and used this software to gain an advantage on every potential investor. Basically, ...

10. Goldman Sachs secret software and naked short selling
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... and Goldman Sachs use of their secret software that stole the wealth off investors all across the country. It will go down as the biggest scandal in history. I give you permission to re-print this letter. ...

11. The promise and peril of exchange traded (ETF) funds
(Money/Economy)

... No waiting until the exchanges close. Also, an investor can "leverage" (buy with borrowed money) and sell short (bet against a stock, a sector, or a market as a whole). Among the lesser-known advantages, ...

12. Warren Buffett’s bet on railroads seen as vote of confidence for U.S. economy
(Money/Economy)

BY MIL ARCEGA VOA NEWS WASHINGTON — American billionaire investor Warren Buffett has cast a big vote of confidence on the U.S. economy by purchasing one of the nation's largest rail systems. The deal, ...

13. Schwab starts offering no-commission ETFs
(Money/Economy)

... dark horses. "Cap" is short for market capitalization – market price times shares outstanding. One of the key benefits of the new ETFs seems to be that investors who invest regularly - such as by dollar-cost-averaging ...

14. How bondholders can find shelter from rising interest rates
(Money/Economy)

... longer will they be willing to accept the low Treasury rates when our deficits are ballooning and the value of the dollars they are repaid in is falling? Long-term bond holders and other investors can ...

15. Israeli-style martial arts system pulls no punches
(Life/Style)

... center in Hamilton, Mercer County in 2007. Their father, Alfred Kahn, is an investor, along with actor James Gandolfini, who sometimes trains there, Abel Kahn said in a recent interview. "Clean shoes ...

16. It's time to clean up your portfolio
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY One thing that sophisticated investors do when the end of the year approaches is consider selling their big losers – stocks, mutual funds, ...

17. Beware of financial seminars wrapped around free lunches
(Money/Economy)

... recommendations to purchase investments. For example, risky investments were recommended to investors with conservative investment objectives or illiquid investments were recommended to investors with ...

18. Franklin Advisory's Lippman on stocks, arrogance, the economy ... & more
(Money/Economy)

BY WARREN BOROSON NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BOROSON ON MONEY How does a successful value investor – someone who looks for good, cheap stocks – go about his business? The other day, William P. Lippman, ...

19. A ‘seal' of approval at Vancouver International Film Festival
(Entertainment/Movies)

... everything from closing papers to arcane instruments designed to pass their firms' risks along to downstream suckers, er, investors. When an executive at Standard & Poor, Frank Raiter complained that ...

20. Gold prices hit all-time high
(Money/Economy)

Gold prices have risen to record highs for a second consecutive day as continued weakness in the U.S. dollar entices more investors to the precious metal. Gold futures hit a new peak of $1,049.70 an ...