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October 31, 2009: Fixed Rate Capital Securities: An Interesting Alternative For Income Oriented Investors

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:13:55 GMT

In the early 1990s, a product called fixed rate capital securities was introduced to meet the needs of income-oriented investors and provide a cost efficient source of capital for issuers.[More...]

Wall Street Tumbles As Financials Plunge, Bank Of America (NYSE: BAC) Sinks

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:05:35 GMT

US stocks finished with steep losses on Friday a decline in consumer confidence and consumer sentiment index spooked investors. A sharp selloff in financials also pressurized stocks.[More...]

Daily Highlights: 10/30/09

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:25:15 GMT

Asian Stocks rise as earnings, Japan jobless data, stoke growth optimism.Bank of Japan keeps benchmark rate at 0.1%, stops buying corporate debt.Dollar falls for fourth month against Euro, US growth aids risk demand.Japan central bank forecasts 3 years of deflation as it ends emergency credit steps.[More...]

US Stock Futures Point To Weak Open, Chevron (NYSE: CVX) Eyed

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:04:47 GMT

US stock futures rallied on Friday as investors take a breather following the previous session's rally.[More...]

US Stock Futures Point To Weak Open, Chevron (NYSE: CVX) Eyed

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:37:21 GMT

US stock futures rallied on Friday as investors take a breather following the previous session's rally.[More...]

AIG Is Dead; Long Live AIG!

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:02:49 GMT

When Robert Benmosche was named CEO of AIG, I thought it was a good thing. Ed Liddy, possibly tired of the abuse, wanted to move on. Liddy was primarily skilled with personal lines P&C insurance, which was a small part of AIG, and has been sold off. Benmosche’s skills extend to that — MetLife has a small personal lines subsidiary, but he has run the largest life insurer in the US. AIG has grown to be as much a life insurer as a P&C insurer, having grown through the acquisitions of Sun America and American General.[More...]

Goldman Sachs (GS) Trading Huddles; And If Goldman Had A Town Hall Meeting

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:40:21 GMT

In case you missed the weekly Goldman Sachs (GS) furor, this week's installation was a Monday morning front page story in the Wall Street Journal which I won't do a full blown look at but let me give you the highlights. Actually for the Cliff Notes version all you need to know is you are being walked on, and Goldman is just smarter than you (by smarter I mean manipulating the system - bending the rules but not breaking them) - hence the 97% winning percentage last quarter. (Aug 5, 2009: Goldman Sachs Q2 Winning Percentage: 97%)[More...]

Weekly Credit Summary: August 21

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:22:27 GMT

Spreads ended this tempestuous week mixed with breadth generally weak (wideners outpacing tighteners by over two-to-one) and curves flattening more than steepening in single-names. HY outperformed IG as both IG and HY managed gains on the week (Friday-to-Friday close) and even more so from Monday's gap wider openings as the intraday ranges increased as the week progressed. IG and HY closed today within a few bps of their opening (low/tight) levels of last Thursday as HY reached back above $89 by the end of the week. Interestingly, given the headlines, we saw CMBS prices drop and ABX (RMBS) prices rise on the week as CRE losses are on the tip of everyone's tongues as is a residential housing bottom (not!). IG and HY intrinsics both underperformed as the indices saw tecahnicals at play as well as equities weighing positively and negatively on them every day. HVOL was a smidge wider as was[More...]

Has The Insurance Industry Finally Turned The Corner?

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:07:00 GMT

There are not many companies whose fortunes are as closely tied to the stock market as those in the insurance industry. When the market is climbing,[More...]

Awaiting A Directional Signal From The Stocks

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:25:51 GMT

At the outset of a new quarter, market signals remain mixed, making it difficult to find a reliable trading edge. Just to reiterate my longer-term thesis, I think talk of economic recovery is premature. We still have a number of shoes left to drop, including consumer deleveraging, commercial real estate woes, economic calamity in California, falling state tax revenue across the board, still-expanding toxic debt issues with banks, and a financial sector that retains most of the essential systematic problems that caused the crisis in the first place. As the architects of the disaster (e.g., Larry Summers) seek a solution, too-big-to-fail institutions continue to speculate heavily in risky investments, meanwhile lobbying in Washington with your tax dollars to further rig the system to their benefit. Of course, the redistribution of our collective wealth to the bankers may push equity prices still higher in the short term. Meanwhile, at some point financial[More...]

RETIREMENT AND RISK: Balance out the pension priorities

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:47:00 GMT

As pension saving has moved from defined benefit towards defined contribution or personal pensions, investment risk, longevity and inflation have become issues that pension savers are having to deal with themselves.
Even without Gordon Brown's pound 5bn tax grab, often cited as the final nail in the coffin for occupational defined-benefit schemes, increasing longevity and a raft of changes to the rules were already making continued provision an expensive option for employers.
Now, just four FTSE 100 companies (Shell, Tesco, Cadbury and Diageo) offer a final-salary pension scheme to new employees, compared with 40 per cent of companies a mere five years ago.

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October 31, 2009: Fixed Rate Capital Securities: An Interesting Alternative For Income Oriented Investors

Wall Street Tumbles As Financials Plunge, Bank Of America (NYSE: BAC) Sinks

Daily Highlights: 10/30/09

US Stock Futures Point To Weak Open, Chevron (NYSE: CVX) Eyed

US Stock Futures Point To Weak Open, Chevron (NYSE: CVX) Eyed

AIG Is Dead; Long Live AIG!

Goldman Sachs (GS) Trading Huddles; And If Goldman Had A Town Hall Meeting

Weekly Credit Summary: August 21

Has The Insurance Industry Finally Turned The Corner?

Awaiting A Directional Signal From The Stocks

RETIREMENT AND RISK: Balance out the pension priorities

Oil falls to near $80 for third day of losses

Barrage of earnings, economic data to drive market

Oil falls below $80 for third day of losses

Electric Rate Caps Will Be Lifted in 2010, Meaning Adjustments for Customers

Barrage of earnings, economic data to drive market

N.Y. Court Deals CalPERS a Blow on Housing Project

Older workers face hiring challenges

Starent Networks is in Growth Mode

Best Face: Workshops Will Prepare Job Seekers for Urban League Job Fair

PicksThatMove.com Announces Investment Opinion On: IMS Health Inc, MetLife Inc., ON Semiconductor Corporation, Neohydro Technologies Corporation and WesternZagros Resources Ltd.

RepublicBankAz Implements IMN's Banking On

KIT Digital Expands Leadership in Enterprise IP Video Management With Acquisitions of Nunet and The FeedRoom

Ebix Acquires E-Z Data For $50.35 Million and Adds On-Demand CRM For Financial Services To EbixExchange

MetLife Receives Perfect Score on Corporate Equality Index for Seventh Consecutive Year

IMN Announces Banking On at 2009 ABA Marketing Conference

MetLife, a Stable Value Innovator, Celebrates 20th Anniversary of the First Separate Account Guaranteed Interest Contract

The FeedRoom to Host Webinar on Use of Online Video for Highly Effective Enterprise Communications

FeedRoom Customers Recognized By Interactive Media Strategies in First Annual 'Excellence in Enterprise Video' Awards Program ; Barnes & Noble.Com, Bausch & Lomb, Hewlett-Packard and Intel Corporation Among 2009 Award Recipients for Innovative Use of Online Video in Business

MetLife Declares Third Quarter 2009 Preferred Stock Dividends

Form 4 Morris Maria R For: Oct 05 (10K)

Form 4 WEBER LISA M For: Sep 03 (10K)

Form 4 Carr Gwenn L For: Aug 21 (10K)

Form 4 METLIFE INC For: Aug 06 Filed by: TOPPETA WILLIAM J (10K)

Form 4 METLIFE INC For: Aug 04 Filed by: KELLY ALFRED F JR (10K)

Form 4 METLIFE INC For: Apr 15 Filed by: TOPPETA WILLIAM J (10K)

Form 4 HENRIKSON C ROBERT For: Apr 15 (10K)

Form 4 Mullaney William J For: Apr 15 (10K)

Form 4 Carr Gwenn L For: Apr 15 (10K)

Form 4 Morris Maria R For: Apr 15 (10K)