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• 7 Best Annuities to Guarantee Income for Life

  BNET - 2009-12-08

  Receiving a monthly check from the day you retire until the day you die sounds mighty appealing. But signing up for an immediate annuity also means locking up your money with an insurer for decades. How can you be certain the company will still be around? Here are seven of...

  Tags: Payment, S&P, Annuity, Immediate Annuity, Insurance Company, Income, TheStreet.com Inc., Payout, A.M. Best Co., MoneyWatch, ImmediateAnnuities.com, A+, Insurance, Personal Finance, Operational Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Immediate Annuities, Annuities, A.M. Best, Standard & Poor?s, Moody?s, TheStreet.com, ImmediateAnnuities, AnnuityAdvantage, MetLife, USAA, Minnesota Life, American National Life Insurance, North American Co. for Life and Health, Midland National, PennMutual, State Guaranty Funds, Annuity Shopper, Hersh Stern, Kathy Kristof

• Underrated: S&P, Moody's, Fitch ... and PIMCO

  BNET - 2009-11-21

  It's been a tough week for the big three rating agencies: Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service, and Fitch Ratings, which seem to be following in the footsteps of the big three auto makers. First the National Association of Insurance Commissioners put up a "No Help Wanted"...

  Tags: S&P, Bond, Moody's Corp., PIMCO, Investment, Finance, Ed Leefeldt

• Great Plains Energy Incorporated Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-10-30

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions. Your first question is from Michael Lapides with a Goldman Sachs. Michael Lapides – Goldman Sachs Hey, guys. I want to touch on a handful of things. First of all, the schedule in Missouri regarding the rate case filing versus the in-service date by Iatan...

  Tags: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., S&P, Financing, Great Plains Software, Call Transcript, Earnings, Financial Accounting, Investment, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Marketing, Seeking Alpha, Great Plains Energy Inc.

• The S&P Is Climbing, But Hedge Funds Look Less Pretty Than Their Banker Brethren

  BNET - 2009-08-11

  Who would have thought that the day would come when trading market cycles was more profitable with a big bank behind you? by Daniel M. Harrison

  Tags: S&P, Hedge Fund, Brethren, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Daniel M. Harrison

• The Future of Investing

  BNET - 2009-06-22

  Want to pick a date for the stock market to get back to its 2007 high? You may need a calendar that goes to 2017. ...

  Tags: S&P, Bond, Stock, Return, Dividend, Market, Bull Market, Investor, Inflation, MoneyWatch, Inker, Investment, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Financial Accounting, Finance, Robert Stovall, Jeremy Grantham, S&P 500, Ben Bernanke, S&P Equity Research, Rob Arnott, Warren Buffett, William Bernstein, Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo, Research Affiliates, Eaton Vance, ClearBridge Advisors, Hersh Cohen, Judith Saryan, Carla A. Fried

• The Last Decade's Market Winners

  BNET - 2009-03-23

  Standard & Poor's just updated their 10 year return figures for the stock market, and not everything was as bad as you have heard. by Charlie Farrell

  Tags: S&P, Stock Market, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Charlie Farrell

• Time Value Calculator

  BNET - 2009-01-01

  Time and money together can be a powerful tool in building the value of your investments. That's because of compounding - the ability of an investment's earnings to earn earnings by reinvesting all interest, dividends, and realized capital gains. How fast an investment grows over time depends on the rate...

  Tags: S&P, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance

• S&P Targets Volatility in Pummeled Indexes

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-18

  IndexUniverse submits: Standard & Poor's is zeroing in on volatility levels in four indexes within its Emerging Market and Global Thematic Index Series, indexes that have turned in terrible performance amidst the market crisis. The volatility targeting approach has been common in the structured products arena, but is...

  Tags: Volatility, S&P, Seeking Alpha, IndexUniverse, Investment, Finance, Index Universe, Emerging Markets, ETF

• Wilmington Funds to Participate in New Money Market Guarantee Program

  - 2008-10-03

  Insurance Will Provide Additional Reassurance to Shareholders During Period of Market Volatility WILMINGTON, Del. -- Wilmington Trust announced today that the Board of Trustees of its mutual fund family, the Wilmington Funds, authorized participation in the U.S. Treasury Department's new Temporary Money Market Guarantee Program. The voluntary program,...

  Tags: Benefits, FINANCE, Insurance, Investment, liquidity, S&P, shareholder, U.S. Department of Treasury

• Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc. Announces the S&P SmallCap 600 Index Inclusion Date Change

  - 2008-09-26

  GREENWICH, Conn. -- Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc. (NYSE: UBA and UBP) announced that Standard and Poor's, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, has announced that they are extending the inclusion date of adding the Company's Class A Common Stock UBA to the S&P SmallCap 600 Index until the close of...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, McGraw-Hill Companies, NYSE Euronext, S&P, Standard and Poor's, Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc.