BELHAVEN, Scotland’s leading regional brewer, has continued its remarkable success story in its latest trading half, delivering its eighth consecutive set of record interim results since itsflotation seven years ago. The company has been a miniature contra-thinker in a drinks […]

A US COMPANY owned by Amvescap, the FTSE 100-listed fund manager, is expected to be charged with improper trading, the latest casualty in the mutual funds scandal. New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the Securities and Exchange Commission are […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Regulators were preparing to file civil charges Tuesday against Invesco Funds Group Inc. and its chief executive in the rapidly expanding mutual fund trading scandal. New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the Securities and […]

Dec. 1–The changes on Wall Street are making life more difficult for investors who want to trade big-cap stocks or follow the advice of brokerages’ analysts. But they are creating great opportunities for investors willing to spend the time looking […]

Dec. 1–With the market’s renewed love affair with tech stocks, SS&C Technologies Inc. has enjoyed a classic November romance. Shares have doubled since May of this year, and septupled since May 2000. In September, the company paid its first cash […]

November 27, 2003   LIES, LIES, MORE DAMN LIES “You know our job in Washington is to tackle problems when we see them; not to pass them on to future congresses, future presidents, and future generations. I want to thank […]

<body.content> <block> <p>HAMILTON, Bermuda, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — PXRE Group Ltd. today announced the filing of a supplement to the prospectus contained in the shelfregistration statement with respect to a public offering of 2.2 million of its common shares. Of […]

THE dollar’s drop has prompted British investors to bale out of US assets at their fastest rate since the 1998 Asian crisis. The exodus has left analysts questioning whether investors’ love affair with US assets is over. Latest data from […]

GUEST OPINION A few bad apples taint mutual fund investing By JOHN T. McCARTHY Monday, December 1, 2003 Early in his tenure as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Arthur Levitt proclaimed that “in the fullness of time, the […]

Britain’s largest unit trust companies have been targeted by specialist market traders who attempt to skim off profits that might otherwise go to small private investors, using a practice called”market timing”. A Guardian survey of Britain’s top 10 unit trust […]

Street Smart Analyst goes fishing for tiny Keys bank By KATHLEEN GALLAGHER of the Journal Sentinel staff Sunday, November 30, 2003 Investment: TIB Financial Corp., Key Largo, Fla., is a holding company for TIB Bank of the Keys, which conducts […]

In funds, it can be a matter of timing Arbitrageurs take advantage of price inefficiencies By KATHLEEN GALLAGHER [email protected], Journal Sentinel Sunday, November 30, 2003 To understand the wrongs that New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is trying to right […]