Wall Street Journal

Investigation Of Life Partners Holdings, Inc. Advances For Investors, Says Hagens Berman

February 3rd, 2011

Hagens Berman Sobal Shapiro LLP, an investor-rights law firm, is progressing in its investigation involving Life Partners Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ GS:LPHI) shares and insurance policies.
Shareholders who purchased LPHI stock between May 29, 2007 and January 20, 2011 (the “Class Period”) or investors who purchased LPHI policies are encouraged to call Hagens Berman partner Reed R. [...]


MassMutual Teams Up with Gen Y Money Coach Farnoosh Torabi to Help Motivate Younger Retirement Plan Participants to Save

January 27th, 2011

MassMutual’s Retirement Services Division has joined forces with Farnoosh Torabi, independent Generation Y money coach, multiple best-selling author, and personal finance journalist, to help connect with younger plan participants and inspire them to take a more active role in planning and saving for retirement.
While the alliance is meant to benefit participants of all ages in [...]


Government to audition bankers for AIG offering: report

January 10th, 2011

The government will audition bankers to manage a public offering of its stake in insurer American International Group according to a report on Saturday in the Wall Street Journal.
Citing “people familiar with the matter” the paper said auditions would be this coming week in New York. An AIG spokesman declined to comment on the report [...]


H&R Block Offers Steps to Finding the Right Tax Professional

January 23rd, 2009

The federal tax code has more than one million words, is several thousand pages long, and in 2008 alone, there were 500 changes to the code, or more than one per day*. More than ever, Americans need the counsel of trusted tax professionals to decipher the complex tax code and apply it to their unique [...]


Bankrate Names New InsureMe CEO

January 6th, 2009

Bankrate, Inc. announced that the company has promoted industry veteran Lou Geremia to chief executive officer of InsureMe, replacing the Founder, Tim McTavish.
Tim McTavish, the founder and CEO of InsureMe and Robin Paquette, the company’s COO will step down, as planned, on Jan. 31. “Over the past year that we’ve owned InsureMe, the company [...]


Soleil Securities Adds Research Analysts

November 26th, 2008

Soleil Securities Corporation, a provider of value-added, independent equity research and brokerage services, announced today the addition of three new analysts to its platform. Joining Soleil are Harry Fong, covering the insurance industry; Kit Konolige, covering large-cap utilities; and Manoj Garg, covering biotech and specialty pharmaceuticals. Including these additions, Soleil’s network of research analysts totals [...]


Soleil Securities Adds Research Analysts

November 25th, 2008

Soleil Securities Corporation, a provider of value-added, independent equity research and brokerage services, announced today the addition of three new analysts to its platform. Joining Soleil are Harry Fong, covering the insurance industry; Kit Konolige, covering large-cap utilities; and Manoj Garg, covering biotech and specialty pharmaceuticals. Including these additions, Soleil’s network of research analysts totals [...]


Social Networking Expert Gets Women Business Owners Wired

November 21st, 2008

The Principal® Women in Business Teleclass Series will feature Lena West, CEO of xynoMedia Technology, Dec. 2 at 12 p.m. (CT). The complimentary teleclass is titled, “Get Wired into Social Networking: How to Use Sources from LinkedIn to Facebook to Grow Your Business.”
West launched xynoMedia Technology in 1997. It is a consulting firm for companies [...]


U.S. Preventive Medicine(R) CEO Participating in Inaugural Wall Street Journal CEO Council Meeting

November 19th, 2008

U.S. Preventive Medicine®, the leader in disease prevention, announced that Christopher Fey, Chairman and CEO, will participate in the inaugural Wall Street Journal CEO Council meeting to be held in Washington, DC, November 17-18, 2008.
The Wall Street Journal is assembling a group of more than 100 global business leaders and CEOs, U.S. Senators and members [...]


Nationwide Financial(R) Improves Pricing of Its Best-Selling YourLife(SM) ULtimate Universal Life Policy

November 5th, 2008

No-lapse guaranteed universal life insurance has been one of the top selling products in the industry, and Nationwide Financial’s YourLifeSM ULtimate product has been a sales success since its launch in June 2006. Now the company has repriced it, making it even more competitive. Nationwide is one of the few insurance carriers that is consistently [...]