Craford Benefit Consultants announc that Scott Beeber has joined the firm as Managing Director, Business Development. Beeber will be based in the firm’s San Rafael, California headquarters.
In this newly-created position, Beeber will lead and manage Craford’s business development and sales initiatives and will play a critical role in creating and managing strategic alliances and other [...]

Institutional Investor Events is proud to announce the 7th Annual Distressed Investing Forum on February 23-25, 2009 at the Union League Club in New York City.
Produced in association with Credit Investment News and Distressed Investing News, the forum will bring together industry leaders to exchange ideas and strategies on current distressed investment opportunities. The forum [...]

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney announced that Jonathan Madrigano, Director of Wealth Management, has achieved the company’s prestigious Family Wealth Director title.
Jonathan Madrigano will continue educating principals of private companies that are pre-IPO, private business owners who face near term appreciation events or business succession issues and clients whose wealth has the potential to change the [...]

Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. announced that it has appointed Curt Melville as Chief Operating Officer and Marc Blevens as Director of Sales and Agency Relations. Eastern Life & Health Insurance Company (ELH) is a wholly- owned subsidiary of EIHI.
Melville joined ELH in 2007 as Vice President of Underwriting. In that role, he was responsible [...]

Adapting strategies to create new retirement income solutions for Americans during a critical and volatile time is the focus of the 5th Annual Conference on Managing Retirement Income (MRI). Produced by the Institute for International Research with exclusive endorsement from the Retirement Income Industry Association (RIIA), the event will take place February 9 through February [...]

Extend Health announced that Richard Wheeler, former managing partner of Prescription Benefits, Inc., and Cathy Donahoe, former Director of Human Resources at Omniture, Inc., are joining Extend Health’s executive management team. Mr. Wheeler joins Extend Health as Senior Vice President for Public Sector Accounts. Ms. Donahoe joins as Vice President of Human Resources. Commenting on [...]

Farmers Insurance Group announced it has launched its latest Hispanic advertising campaign titled “Force Field” that includes TV, radio and rich media – all produced by U.S. Hispanic Agency of Record Accentmarketing.
Force Field’ is a visual representation of finding the right fit when it comes to providing individualized insurance coverage that’s right for each person,” [...]

PartnerRe Ltd.announced that David Zwiener has been appointed to fill a vacancy on its Board of Directors effective July 7, 2009.
Mr. Zwiener, aged 54, is an experienced insurance industry executive. Between 2000 and 2007 Mr. Zwiener was President and Chief Operating Officer of the property and casualty operations at Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. In [...]

LGPI, the pension institution for local governments in Finland, has signed an agreement with Ortec Finance to license its Asset Liability solution for pension plans Ortec Finance PALM. The ALM solution enables LGPI to formulate ALM strategies based on Ortec Finance state of the art scenario generation, asset and liability methodologies. The selection of was [...]

ACM Capital Partners, a national investment and advisory firm specializing in assisting middle-market companies in transition or distress, and Crestmark Bank, a nationally recognized provider of working capital solutions to small- and mid-sized businesses, today announced they have partnered to deliver a multi-million dollar asset-based loan for a struggling medical device company headquartered in California.
The [...]