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NEWS WIREHOUSES APR 25, 2007
T. Rowe Price earnings up 22%

T. Rowe Price Group today announced that its first-quarter earnings rose 22% and that its assets under management reached a new record.

By Bloomberg
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 25, 2007
AMG beats Street expectations

Asset management firm Affiliated Managers Group Inc. said today that asset inflows and better performance from its funds lifted first-quarter profit by 4%.

By Bloomberg
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 25, 2007
Keep Merrill rule's safeguards, say groups

Financial service professionals who provide portfolio management, asset allocation and financial advice should be regulated as investment advisers, six organizations said in a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox.

By Bloomberg
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 25, 2007
RBS trumps Barclays' bid for ABN Amro

A group of banks led by the Royal Bank of Scotland today offered over $98 billion for ABN Amro, trumping the $90 billion offer by London-based Barclays PLC announced earlier in the week, according to published reports.

By Bloomberg
NEWS MUTUAL FUNDS APR 25, 2007
Waddell & Reed sees 16.7% profit boost

Mutual fund company Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. today reported that its first-quarter net income rose 16.7% and that assets under management reached $50 billion for the first time.

By Bloomberg
NEWS WIREHOUSES APR 25, 2007
Morgan's wealth group settles bias suit

Morgan Stanley’s Global Wealth Management Group has announced it will pay at least $46 million to settle a class action filed by eight current and former female financial advisers and registered trainees.

By Bloomberg
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 25, 2007
Merrill to acquire stake in Japan bank

Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. today announced that it will buy a nearly $3 billion stake in Resona Holdings Inc., Japan's fourth-largest bank, according to published reports.

By Bloomberg
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 25, 2007
Aflac first-quarter profits grow 10.9%

Aflac Inc.’s net income increased 10.9% in the first quarter, despite lagging sales in Japan, the Columbus, Ga.-based insurance company reported.

By Bloomberg
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 24, 2007
CBOE profits skyrocket

The Chicago Board Options Exchange Inc. reported a 251% increase in net income during the first quarter on stronger trading volume.

By Bloomberg
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 24, 2007
CME posts 42% first income net

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. posted a 42% increase in net income during the first quarter, as electronic trading volume grew sharply.

By Bloomberg
NEWS BROKER DEALERS APR 24, 2007
NPH posts record revenues

National Planning Holdings Inc., the nation’s seventh largest independent-contractor broker-dealer network, today posted record revenues of more than $135 million during the first quarter, an increase of 13.5% from the same time last year.

By Bloomberg
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 24, 2007
New UBS index predicts weather

UBS AG today launched a global warming index based on weather futures for 15 U.S. cities that is being traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

By Bloomberg
NEWS WIREHOUSES APR 24, 2007
Legg’s Hirschmann stepping down

Legg Mason Inc. today said James W. Hirschmann III has decided to relinquish his responsibilities as president and chief operating officer at the Baltimore-based money management firm.

By Bloomberg
NEWS WIREHOUSES APR 23, 2007
JP Morgan Chase goes Hollywood

JP Morgan Chase & Co. said it has launched JPMorgan Entertainment Advisors to provide financial and strategic advice, services and products to clients in the entertainment and media businesses.

By Bloomberg
Some cheeseheads love HSAs
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 23, 2007
Some cheeseheads love HSAs

Health savings accounts are more than four times more popular with employers in a swath of Wisconsin than in the United States as a whole

By Bloomberg
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 23, 2007
North Dakota blazes a regulatory trail

NEW YORK — North Dakota last week became the first state to adopt a more stringent statute regulating life settlements, with special emphasis on stranger-originated life insurance.

By Bloomberg
NEWS WIREHOUSES APR 23, 2007
Director jumps from UBS to JP Morgan

JP Morgan Chase & Co. has tapped Joe Jiampietro, a former UBS AG managing director in the financial institutions and governments team, making him the latest to leave the Zurich-based bank.

By Bloomberg
NEWS BROKER DEALERS APR 23, 2007
Instinet opens BrokerShare to non B-Ds

Instinet Group Inc., a global agency broker, has announced the expansion of its BrokerShare commission sharing arrangement program to include non broker-dealers.

By Bloomberg
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 23, 2007
Insurance Co. yields $25M to WisdomTree

WisdomTree Investments Inc. of New York announced today that Independence Blue Cross of Philadelphia, through its subsidiary QCC Insurance Co., has allocated $25 million to WisdomTree’s High Yielding Equity Index.

By Bloomberg
NEWS WIREHOUSES APR 23, 2007
Morgan's Roach to head Asia operations

Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach, who has predicted that China will surpass the U.S. as the world's leading economy, was tapped to become the firm’s chairman of Asia operations.

By Bloomberg