The News Review:
- Investment Counselor Pleads Guilty To Fraud
- n Investing: There are financial instruments which may tame risk
- Slam-Dunk Investment TIPS for 2009
- Integra Bank Corporation Announces Closing of Investment Under US …
- The investment scam-artist’s playbook
- Investing in future health
Investment Counselor Pleads Guilty To Fraud
MSNBC
- Emotions ran high Friday in federal court as a Brentwood investment counselor admitted to defrauding more than 28 people out of almost $9 million. The victims included an 87-year-old woman who lost her life savings. fficials said Michael Park ran a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme in middle Tennessee for seven years before getting caught. Story continues below ?advertisement |.
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n Investing: There are financial instruments which may tame risk
Valley News Today
However the financial climate is such today that it is challenging nearly everyone’s attitude toward financial risk. If there was a way to structure your investments in a way to potentially minimize this risk wouldn’t you want to know about it?Whether you’re an individual investor an institutional investor or a firm offering private investment capital you’re taking a stake in the success of the company when you invest in that company. It may now be more important than ever to ask not only what interest rate you will be paid but also ask what kind of upside potential you get with the investment. In other words if I’m going to be a debt holder; I’d also like the ability to capture the potential upside growth of the company. Convertible securities are what I’m referring to and that’s just what they’re all about. As a measure of risk versus reward convertibles may assist in capturing a large percentage of the upside of a stock while limiting the downside exposure to a much smaller percentage.
Slam-Dunk Investment TIPS for 2009
Motley Fool
Earlier this month Bill Gross recommended the purchase of Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities or TIPS in a note to clients. As the co-chief investment officer of bond giant PIMC Bill Gross oversees the management of more than $800 billion in fixed-income securities. Wait! Now before you move on because I’m talking about bonds I assure you there is a lesson here for all investors who wish to protect their assets — even those who consider themselves purely stock investors.
Integra Bank Corporation Announces Closing of Investment Under US …
Trading Markets (press release)
69 per share subject to adjustment in certain circumstances. The total amount invested by the Treasury Department in Integra was $83586000. Under the Capital Purchase Program the Treasury Department is investing up to $250 billion in securities of healthy U. financial institutions as part of its efforts to provide a firmer capital foundation for banks and to increase credit availability to businesses and consumers.
The investment scam-artist’s playbook
CNNMoney.com
So far criminal charges haven’t been filed. Details in the Stanford case are still emerging and many differences have already become clear. Stanford Financial isn’t accused of running a Ponzi scheme only of advertising unrealistic returns and investing in riskier less-liquid instruments than advertised. Ironically the SEC says that Stanford lost at least $400000 with Madoff through feeder funds all while assuring investors that the firm wasn’t involved with Madoff. But there are also some startling similarities. And what emerges looks like a formula on how to get mixed up in a massive government fraud case. The key elements: ffer steady good returns.
Investing in future health
Suffolk News-Herald
There students will have access to state-of-the-art technology separate classrooms and all-new furniture and fixtures. ?When the students go to the new building they will think they have died and gone to heaven? Denise Bell head of the community college?s nursing program told a reporter recently. It?s a great investment to help train the people who are charged with helping their patients to postpone that heavenly trip as long as possible.