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• Equity Investing: Risk

  BNET - 2008-08-01

  In order to reach your financial objectives, you must choose from diverse investment alternatives that vary greatly in the degree and type of risk and potential return. The key to developing a sound portfolio is to strike the right balance between potential reward and risk, based on your goals, financial...

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• Fitch Rates Prudential's Jr. Subordinated Notes 'A-'; Outlook Stable

  - 2008-07-02

  NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'A-' rating to Prudential Financial, Inc.'s (NYSE: PRU) $600 million 8.875% fixed-to-floating rate institutional hybrids due 2068 and $800 million retail hybrids due 2068. PRU has the right to defer interest for up to 5 years, or if a market disruption event is...

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• JennisonDryden Launches Dryden US Equity Active Extension Fund

  - 2008-03-18

  NEWARK, N.J. -- JennisonDryden Mutual Funds announced that it has recently launched the Dryden US Equity Active Extension Fund (Ticker: DUEAX), managed by Quantitative Management Associates to employ an innovative structure that combines long and short positions in a single portfolio. JennisonDryden is the proprietary mutual fund family of Prudential...

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• On the move: Top 4 moves.

  - 2008-02-04

  01 - Iain Mather, Rogier van de Grift & Michael Burnham OLD - Mather joins from Morgan Stanley Investment Management, van de Grift from ABP Investments and Burnham from BT Funds Management NEW - They join Principal Global Investors Tel:...

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• On the move: Going places.

  - 2008-01-28

  Schroders bowled over by DC specialist Schroders has boosted its defined contribution DC pensions and investment team with the appointment of Stephen Bowles. Joining from Prudential, he will focus on developing Schroders' DC business and continue the expansion of the diversified...

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• Losing middleman costs pensioners.

  - 2007-11-08

  Byline: Omitting advisers in equity release deals can cost more Retired homeowners in the UK are paying significantly over the odds on equity release deals by going direct to a product provider rather than an independent financial adviser, according to Key Retirement Solutions. ...

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• A Prudent key to success.

  - 2007-10-18

  Individual companies and stocks receive the lion's share of attention in the daily financial press. You might then think that stock selection is the single key driver of investment returns. Of course, that's not the case. In fact, studies show that the asset allocation decision is...

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• Smaller providers use equities to 'maximise with profit returns'.

  - 2007-08-16

  performance Smaller companies' with profits funds performed better in the first half of the year and found their way out of difficulties by investing in equities, while the bigger providers languished in bonds, according to experts. Friends Provident's mid-year review of...

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• Pru Walks Away From Equity Research

  - 2007-06-11

  Prudential Financial Inc. said last week that it would eliminate its Prudential Equity Group and leave the institutional equity research, sales and trading market. The Newark financial services company said operations in New York City Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Atlanta and Boston will be affected. Prudential also...

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• Prudential Discontinues Equity Research Operations

  - 2007-06-06

  NEWARK, N.J. -- Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU) announced today that it will discontinue the institutional equity research, sales and trading business known as Prudential Equity Group. The decision affects the equity research operations throughout the United States, including its offices and trading operations in New York City and Washington, D.C.,...

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