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2 hrs ago | MarketWatch

IRA conversion calculation

Ita s hard to tell from this perch whether IRA owners will be busting down the doors on Jan.

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Related Topix: IRA, Personal Finance

7 hrs ago | The Austrailian

ING tipped to shrink amid asset sell-off

FURTHER fragmentation of the giant ING Group's Australian property operations seems inevitable following last week's decision of its parent company to divest its insurance and investment management businesses in the next four years.

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Related Topix: ING Group, Insurance, Travel, Australia Travel, REIT, Personal Finance

11 hrs ago | Denver Post

Denver judge sentences hot-dog swindler to 15 years

Arnold Zaler stole nearly $2.5 million. A kosher meat salesman who left a trail of victims on two continents was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday in a decision cheered by those who were fooled by the smooth-talking hot-dog salesman.

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Related Topix: Denver Metro, Personal Finance

15 hrs ago | MSNBC

Amid panic, uncertainty, they retired anyway

It took guts and good planning to decide to retire in the middle of the deepest recession in decades.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Seattle Metro, Tacoma Metro, Tacoma, WA

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Times-Sentinel

Roth IRA opportunity

Starting in 2010, any taxpayer, regardless of income, can convert a traditional IRA into a Roth IRA.

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Related Topix: IRA, Personal Finance, Pension, Opinion

MSNBC

Best of both worlds? Combined pension/401k

Over the last year it's become abundantly clear that the stock market can devastate even seemingly healthy retirement accounts.

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Related Topix: Pension, Personal Finance, 401K, Principal Financial Group, Insurance, Financial Services, Investment Services

Miami Herald

State Street adds $250 million to legal reserve

State Street Corp. on Friday said it added $250 million to a legal reserve, and revised its third-quarter earnings results downward to reflect the change.

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Related Topix: State Street, Financial Services, Investment Services, Personal Finance, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage

EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA

Retirement board to transfer funds to state

The Essex Regional Retirement Board, beset by local officials for months, yesterday morning voted 3-1 to transfer control of its investments to the state's Pension Reserves Investment Trust.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Pension

The Sydney Morning Herald

Transurban spurns $6b bid by Canadian funds

TWO of Canada's biggest pension funds were last night seeking to reopen talks with the toll-road giant Transurban after it rejected a $6.7 billion takeover offer.

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Related Topix: Pension, Personal Finance

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Newkerala.com

Rajiv Gandhi's powerful aide Gopi Arora dead

New Delhi, Nov 6 : Gopi Arora, a close aide of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi died Thursday.

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Related Topix: India, World News, Personal Finance

Hispanic Business

Placement Firm Boss Earned Millions After CalPERS Investment

Alfred Villalobos, the controversial businessman at the heart of a pension fund corruption probe, earned some $9.6 million in fees after CalPERS invested hundreds of millions of dollars with a real estate firm with deep ties to downtown Sacramento.

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Related Topix: Pension, Personal Finance, Sacramento Metro, Sacramento, CA, Financial Services, Investment Services

Workforce

Survey Finds Service Requirements for Joining 401(k) Easing

Employers are improving access to their 401 plans, according to a survey released Wednesday, November 4. The Hewitt Associates Inc.

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Related Topix: Hewitt Associates, Human Resources, Personal Finance, Lincolnshire, IL

Institutional Investor News

Solis Looks To New Retirement Saving System

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis issued a call to change the retirement system Wednesday, saying new retirement arrangements should not put responsibility for investments solely on the workers, as the 401 approach does.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

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Inspector approves Sandford Farm homes plans

Controversial plans to build hundreds of homes on Sandford Farm have been approved by a Government inspector.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Berkshire County, England, World News, United Kingdom

The New Zealand Herald

Some financial advisers 'still shoddy as ever'

A Consumer NZ investigation of financial advisers has found the advice being given was "scandalously poor". The results appear to show that lessons have not been learned from the collapse of finance firms in this country and the global credit crunch.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

Wed Nov 04, 2009

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Alberta ready to push Ottawa on supplementary pension plan

Alberta Finance Minister Iris Evans says she's prepared to step up efforts to persuade the federal government the best way to tackle the country's pension woes is to establish a voluntary, supplementary plan atop the existing Canada Pension Plan.

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Related Topix: Pension, Personal Finance, North America, Canada, World News

Press-Telegram

The case for public pensions

A delegation from Sacramento came by the office this week to make the case for CalPERS , the nation's biggest pension fund.

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Related Topix: Pension, Personal Finance, Sacramento Metro, Sacramento, CA, Financial Services, Investment Services, Opinion

Great Falls Tribune

Court rules in favor of insurance companies

HELENA - The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a state law that allows insurance companies to cut off worker's compensation payments when the injured or disabled party is of retirement age.

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Related Topix: Montana, Law, Employment / Labor Law, Personal Finance

Poynter

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Tribune: "We don't expect the ESOP to continue once the company emerges from bankruptcy" From: Tribune Communications Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:02 PM Subject: Message from Gerry Spector/Retirement Plan Changes As we move into the fourth quarter and the end of the year approaches, we wanted to update you on some recent developments with ...

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Related Topix: Economics News, Bankruptcy, Personal Finance

WebWire

ING agrees to sell three of its U.S. broker-dealers to Lightyear

ING announced today that it has reached an agreement to sell three of its U.S. independent retail broker-dealer units, which comprise three-quarters of ING Advisors Network, to Lightyear Capital LLC.

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Related Topix: ING Group, Insurance, Financial Services, Denver Metro, Personal Finance

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