Sebi Chairman C B Bhave today urged neutral agencies like regulators, media, etc to educate investors from being trapped by financial services providers and their wily sales agents. They make an effort to let investors see both the sides," Bhave told a seminar on investor education here today. More Intermediaries having an interest in financial products do educate the people, Bhave said, but pointed out that they tend to overlook the flip side. He cited the example of derivative products where investors are told how much money they can make if the stock rises, but are not told about what happens when the stock falls and how their losses mount. Bhave also stressed the need for matching the risk profile of investors and the risk coming with the product while selling, and said, "different classes of investors need different kinds of education. read more

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Interestingly, beyond consumer brands living this ethic, an agency holding company brand also took these new imperatives to heart. At a seminar titled “How to Build an Agency From Scratch,” MDC Partners, an investor in my agency, announced the “Million-Dollar Challenge. MDC will review the submissions, choose at least one plan from among 10 finalists and invest $1 million in starting it up in exchange for a 51 percent stake in the new shop. What this says to me is that there is increasing proof that the advertising industry, which was once notorious for a lot of talk but little real change, is now visibly embracing it, and finally leveraging its own creative skills to help ensure its future. read more

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Organizations work to protect elderly from fraud | HeraldTribune. AID=/20100626/COLUMNIST/6261011/2055/NEWS’, ‘Organizations work to protect elderly from fraud’, ‘COLUMNIST’, ”, ”, ‘June 26, 2010′, $(‘email_from’). At a free-lunch “financial seminar” for seniors I attended, the speaker kept asking whether we remembered the huge losses in the stock market in 2000-02 and again in 2008. read more

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Jacksonville investment adviser Wayne McLeod ran a Ponzi scheme that raised at least $34 million from federal employees across the nation, authorities said. McLeod, 48, killed himself Tuesday in a Mandarin park, four days after telling investors the fund was closed and no more money would be paid out. In a complaint filed Thursday, the SEC charged McLeod?s firms with fraudulently soliciting investors for a government bond fund that never existed. The SEC said more than 139 investors of the 260 they have found still had money invested in McLeod?s bogus fund. We’ve got another front-page story slated for Saturday morning that lays out the case against Wayne McLeod, the Jacksonville investment advisor accused of running a Ponzi scheme by federal investigators. McLeod, who committed suicide on Tuesday, ran an investment advisory firm, F & S Asset Management Group Inc. read more

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Author Any Reporter Abrahamson, Zachary Alberta, Tim Allen, Jonathan Allen, Mike Aujla, Simmi Barbash, Fred Barr, Andy Bresnahan, John Budoff Brown, Carrie Burns, Alexander Byers, Alex Catanese, David Cogan, Marin Coller, Andie Cummings, Jeanne Davenport, Coral DiMascio, Jen Frates, Chris Frerking, Beth Gavin, Patrick Gerstein, Josh Glass, Andrew Gordon, Craig Grieve, Tim Haberkorn, Jennifer Haberman, Maggie Hagey, Keach Harris, John F. Robert Hohmann, James Hoskinson, Charles Hunt, Kasie Isenstadt, Alex Kady II, Martin Kliff, Sarah Kraushaar, Josh Lee, Carol E. Lee, MJ Lovley, Erika Lubold, Gordon Mahtesian, Charles Mark, David Marr, Kendra Marson, Anne Martin, Jonathan Milfeld, Becca Negrin, Matt Nichols, Bill Parnes, Amie Phillip, Abby Raju, Manu Rogers, David Romm, Tony Rozen, Laura Ryan, Kiki Samuelsohn, Darren Sherman, Jake Shiner, Meredith Siegel, Harry Simon, Roger Smith, Ben Taylor, Jessica Thrush, Glenn Toeplitz, Shira Trowbridge, Alexander VandeHei, Jim Vogel, Kenneth P. McCollum’s modest investments in those companies, however, make him a small investor; Scott’s major holdings in XFONE give him, at least, a voice in the management of the company. read more

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As part of its campaign, the PSE intends to raise awareness on real estate investment trusts (REITs) during a conference of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry on June 24 where it was invited to speak. For the education campaign, the PSE has partnered with various institutions in conducting free stock-market seminars in the cities of Cebu, Dumaguete and Davao to spur investor awareness and boost local participation in the stock market. This is the first time the PSE will conduct a seminar in Dumaguete, as it regularly holds investor and corporate seminars in the cities of Cebu and Davao. From today to June 25, the PSE will participate in the 14th Cebu Business Month, an annual celebration organized by the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry which will be held at the Cebu International Convention Center in Cebu City. read more

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June 18 (Bloomberg) — The European Union’s decision to publish the results of stress tests on the region’s lenders was welcomed by shareholders seeking more transparency. Merkel and Sarkozy rebuffed concerns from executives including Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executive Officer Josef Ackermann that publishing the tests could undermine confidence in the banks unless governments promise aid. Deutsche Bank’s Ackermann said last week that releasing the stress tests would be “very, very dangerous” if government mechanisms to support European banks weren’t in place beforehand. The wider European stress tests will be published in the second half of July “at the latest,” European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said yesterday. The financial strength of European nations and their banks is closely interconnected, according to Morgan Stanley analysts, who wrote in a June 16 report that countries sharing the euro and their banks are caught in a “vicious circle. European Central Bank Governing Council member Axel Weber said future stress tests in the banking industry will be more comprehensive than today’s evaluations and may include government bonds. read more

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This kind of stumbling out of the gate has led political observers in Washington state to wonder whether Rossi’s heart is really in this race — whether he truly sees this as the best chance he’ll ever have of breaking his political losing streak, or whether he was strong-armed into this contest by national Republicans whose real aim is to tie up Murray’s considerable war chest so that she can’t assist Democrats in other states where the Republican challengers have a better shot at victory. What makes this explanation unlikely, though, is that Rossi, from his early career in the state Legislature all the way through his failed campaigns for governor, has always run as a calm, collected moderate, someone far from needing to be managed like Paul, who had to walk back statements suggesting he doesn’t support the Civil Rights Act, or Angle, who is now explaining past statements calling for the dismantling of Social Security and the abolition of fluoridated drinking water. In fact, there’s no other major Republican Senate challenger aside from Rossi who currently lacks an online issues page — a bizarre distinction for a candidate in a state filled with Web-savvy voters and high-tech companies like Microsoft. National Democrats have certainly pushed this idea, reveling in the notion that Rossi was put in a difficult pre-primary bind when, back in May, Sarah Palin waded into the Washington Senate race and endorsed Tea Party darling Clint Didier, the former NFL tight end and current alfalfa farmer from eastern Washington. On top of that, a recent poll that mimicked the likely Washington primary ballot by including Didier, Rossi and Murray in the list of choices found that while Rossi was behind Murray, he was way ahead of Didier — by a 26-point margin. read more

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