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H.I.G. Capital Portfolio Company Vaupell Acquires Russell Plastics
H.I.G. Capital announced that its portfolio company Vaupell Holdings, Inc. (“Vaupell”) has acquired Russell Plastics Technology Company, Inc. (“Russell”), a supplier of composite plastics products and assemblies serving primarily the aerospace and military markets. - November 10, 2011 - H.I.G. Capital
H.I.G. and Charlesbank Sell Interest in Vision Source to Brazos Private Equity Partners
H.I.G. Capital and Charlesbank Capital Partners have sold their interest in Vision Source, a division of TLC Vision. An investor consortium led by Brazos Private Equity Partners purchased the division. - November 10, 2011 - H.I.G. Capital
Enquirica Research Paper Discusses Farmland as a Portfolio Allocation
Enquirica Research is pleased to release its research on the factors driving Canadian farmland values and western Canadian prices in particular. The report also deals with the role of farmland in a diversified portfolio - volatility, cross correlations and historical return profiles. Farmland... - November 10, 2011 - Enquirica Research
H.I.G. Capital Sells Align Networks
H.I.G. Capital, a global private equity firm, announced the sale of its investment in Align Networks, Inc. The transaction adds to the firm’s long standing track record of successful workers’ compensation and healthcare service industry investments. - November 09, 2011 - H.I.G. Capital
Justina McCaffrey, Inc. Appoints New Chief Executive Officer
Justina McCaffrey, Inc (JM, Inc.), announced today the appointment of Gregory C. Woodward as the Company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Woodward, is principal owner of IMR, LLC., a U.S-based holding company that has agreed to acquire a 30% stake in Justina McCaffrey, Inc (JM, Inc) earlier... - November 08, 2011 - IMR, LLC
$500 Million Growth Equity Fund Raised by H.I.G. Capital
H.I.G. Capital, LLC, announced that it has successfully closed H.I.G. Growth Equity Fund II, L.P. (the “Fund”). The Fund held its final closing on June 30, 2011 with total aggregate commitments at its $500 million cap. - November 08, 2011 - H.I.G. Capital
Chart Capital Partners Completes Recapitalization of ATAC
Chart Capital Partners Completes Investment in Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC) - November 02, 2011 - Chart Capital Partners
Chart Capital Partners Expands Private Equity Team, Hires Geoff Nattans
Chart Capital Partners, a private equity firm specializing in buyouts and growth equity investments in middle market firms, today announced that Geoff Nattans had joined the firm as an Associate. Most recently, Mr. Nattans spent four years with a middle market investment bank in the Washington DC... - November 01, 2011 - Chart Capital Partners
Global Uncertainty Threatens Growth Rates, Bond Market, According to Farmers and Merchants Trust Company Economic Report
Concerns surrounding the global economy are threatening international growth rates and the bond market, while investors remain focused on capital preservation, according to Farmers and Merchants Trust Company’s (FMTC) September Economic Commentary. “Prevailing fears surrounding the... - October 26, 2011 - Farmers and Merchants Trust Company
Enquirica Research is Pleased to Announce the Release of Its Third Series on the Canadian Alternative Investment Market
Enquirica Research is pleased to announce the release of its third series on the Canadian alternative investment market. Series three focuses on hard asset investing and the nexus between sovereign debt, money supply, commodities and growth in China. - October 24, 2011 - Enquirica Research
Enquirica Research is Pleased to Announce the Launch of Enquirica TV
Enquirica Research is pleased to announce the launch of Enquirica TV. Enquirica TV interviews news makers and entrepreneurs about their perspective on the economy and their sectors with the view to providing unique and timely information from a non-mainstream perspective. Enquirica TV has just completed its ground-breaking first series on exempt offerings in Canada with "Questions with Product Issuers." - October 24, 2011 - Enquirica Research
Enquirica Research Continues to Believe That Saskatchewan Farm Land Remains Undervalued in Relation to Global Market
Enquirica Research Believes that Saskatchewan Farm Land Remains Undervalued in Relation to Global Market. “Birth of a Boom: Saskatchewan’s Dawning Age” author calls for farm land ownership liberalization and believes the regulatory barriers may have been a cause of lower prices. - October 23, 2011 - Enquirica Research
Bertram Capital's Managing Partner, Jeff Drazan Featured in Churchill Financial's "On The Left"
Bertram Capital's Managing Partner, Jeff Drazan was recently featured in Churchill Financial's "On the Left" in a three-part interview beginning with the September 26th edition. “We appreciated the opportunity to be featured in Churchill’s widely distributed publication, to... - October 22, 2011 - Bertram Capital
OpusFirst: Food Security is at the Core of the World’s Several Challenges
Ensuring food security is fundamentally linked to several global challenges we face during the 21st century, namely: population growth, climate change, and sustainably conserving our water and energy in the face of escalating demand. Official statistics and forecasts indicate that during the next... - October 21, 2011 - OpusFirst ltd
Craig Brauff, CEO of Erado Featured in Web Seminar for Financial Advisors on Social Media
Craig Brauff Featured in Web Seminar for Financial Advisors on Social Media - October 21, 2011 - Erado
Manage Your Financial Investments Online with Fundsnet.co.uk
Though online money management is hardly a new fad, Fundsnet.co.uk has taken the concept further by applying it to online financial investments. Their services include emerging markets, stocks and shares ISAs, pensions, trusts, and commodity investments. - October 18, 2011 - Fundsnet Limited
Buy Me A Drink App is iOS 5 Ready to Party: Integrating Free International IM
With the necessary updates to optimize Buy Me A Drink for iOS 5 this new BMD version brings the wonderful gift of free International Instant Messaging to keep the party going without SMS changes. - October 17, 2011 - WAAVE Holdings Pte Ltd
eToro Blog Increases Amount of Daily Posts
The eToro Blog, eToro’s leading financial news website, has increased its daily update rate and is now delivering over ten news articles a day. - October 15, 2011 - eToro Group Ltd.
J.P. Turner Welcomes David Kass as Vice President of Equity Trading
J.P. Turner & Company, LLC appointed David Kass as Vice President of Equity Trading in June. - October 13, 2011 - J.P. Turner & Company, LLC
eToro Provides Top Traders with “Investment Shop” Web Pages
With the phenomenal success of eToro OpenBook and CopyTrade, eToro is now giving top traders a chance to earn a second income by funneling potential copiers through their own personal copy.me websites. - October 12, 2011 - eToro Group Ltd.
eToro Enables Expert Traders to Build Their Own Investment Business with CopyMe™
Expert traders can now easily monetize their trading expertise and earn a second Income. - October 11, 2011 - eToro Group Ltd.
Agcapita Farmland Investment Partnership Will be Presenting at the Alternative Investment Conference in Calgary on January 28th, 2012
Agcapita Farmland Investment Partnership will be presenting at the Alternative Investment Conference in Calgary on January 28th, 2012. Risk management and asset allocation in the context of hard asset investments like farmland will be the topic of discussion. Stephen Johnston, CIO and founder of... - October 09, 2011 - Agcapita Partners LP
CMZ Trading Builds Its Natural Gas Business in Portugal
CMZ Trading has been granted a license to trade natural gas in Portugal and plans to start delivery of physical gas to market counter-parties later this year. - October 09, 2011 - CMZ Trading
Unique New Stock Market Analysis of the S&P 500 and AEX, Forecasting Market Turns in Advance for Traders and Day Traders
Lama Forecasting started the website www.lamaforecasting.com introducing a series of truly unique services in forecasting market turns. Focusing on the daily timeframe for traders and intraday for day traders giving them the edge they need in trading. - October 07, 2011 - Lama Forecasting
Donald H. Ramirez is Awarded Certified Financial Planner™ Designation
Donald H. Ramirez, a Managing Principal of Peak Wealth Advisors with 16 years experience providing financial planning and investment management services to individuals, families and businesses has been awarded the Certified Financial Planner™ designation, a certification recognized as the standard of excellence for the financial planning profession. - October 05, 2011 - Peak Wealth Advisors
J.P. Turner Named Top 10 Atlanta Brokerage Firm
J.P. Turner is headquartered in Atlanta and has more than 200 independent offices nationwide. - October 01, 2011 - J.P. Turner & Company, LLC
Texas Firm Gets Permit for Offshore Wind Platform Test
The US Army Corps of Engineers has issued a permit to Offshore Wind Power Systems of Texas to install and test a mobile jack-up platform designed to support a minimum 5MW turbine off Corpus Christi in the Gulf of Mexico. - September 30, 2011 - Offshore Wind Power Systems of Texas llc
eToro Releases Updated WebTrader with New Responsible Trading Settings
Social trading platform eToro releases a new version of its online WebTrader that is geared to promote responsible trading among eToro traders. - September 28, 2011 - eToro Group Ltd.
eToro Awarded with Its Second Best of Show Title at FinovateFall 2011 in NYC
Copy.Me™ personal online investment shop triumphs over 60 competing technology companies - September 28, 2011 - eToro Group Ltd.
eToro Blog Now Available as WebTrader Widget
eToro traders can now keep up with eToro’s premier news portal’s live updates while trading with the eToro WebTrader. - September 28, 2011 - eToro Group Ltd.
eToro Scoops Two Global Banking and Finance Review Awards
eToro chosen as Best Social Trading Platform and Best Mobile Trading Platform - September 28, 2011 - eToro Group Ltd.
eToro’s OpenBook Sweeps World Finance Awards
eToro chosen as Best Social Trading Network, Best Mobile Trading Platform, and Best Trading Software Provider. - September 28, 2011 - eToro Group Ltd.
Felix Klass Associates Announce Plans for Hong Kong Branch
Felix Klass Associates have announced that the company will be opening an Asian branch to its operations by mid 2012. - September 28, 2011 - Felix Klass Associates
August Economic Figures Point to Defensive Investment Strategies, Flight to Quality, According to Farmers and Merchants Trust Company Report
Economic fundamentals continued their downward trend in August, pointing to a need for principal preservation and defensive investment strategies according to Farmers and Merchants Trust Company’s (FMTC) August Economic Commentary. “While many analysts adjusted their growth projections... - September 28, 2011 - Farmers and Merchants Trust Company
Clark Kendall Named One of Metro Area’s Top Wealth Managers
Clark Kendall, CFA, AEP, CFP®, President of Kendall Capital, has been named one of the Top Wealth Managers in the Washington, DC Metropolitan region. - September 24, 2011 - Kendall Capital
Forum Uranium Extends Drill Program, Stakes More Ground
Forum Uranium Corp. has completed staking of more ground in the prolific Kiggavik uranium camp west of Baker Lake, Nunavut. The new claims were staked due to new interpretations for the potential of the area, fueled by Cameco's new discoveries along the major N070 Andrew Lake fault, immediately... - September 24, 2011 - Forum Uranium
Texas Firm, Eolica Brasil in Offshore Wind Platform Talks
A Texas company has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with private wind developer Eolica Brasil over the supply of a mobile offshore jack-up platform for meteorological testing off the Brazilian state of Ceara - September 23, 2011 - Offshore Wind Power Systems of Texas llc
Parry Thorsten Partners Announce New Head of Corporate Trading
Parry Thorsten Partners have announced that Mr. Ronald Lent – formerly of ABN Amro will be joining the Swiss commodity brokerage firm in November 2011. - September 23, 2011 - Parry Thorsten Partners
GGSI Bahamas is Now Offering Pink Sheet Clearance
Offshore Broker Adds to Buying and Selling Services - September 22, 2011 - Gibraltar Global Securities INC.
Gibraltar Global Securities Now Offering Offshore Brokerage Accounts
Gibraltar Global Securities is now offering offshore brokerage accounts in addition to their broad array of financial services. Gibraltar Global Securities offers offshore brokerage accounts to international businesses. This allows transparency between their home country and the countries that... - September 22, 2011 - Gibraltar Global Securities INC.
Agcapita Research Shows Canadian Farmland/Gold Price Ratio at Low Levels
Agcapita research show that the Saskatchewan farmland/gold price ratio is significantly below its long-term average – and in fact is almost at the lows. If the ratio were to reach a similar peak to the last inflation period of the 1970’s of around 0.8 times – Saskatchewan farmland... - September 21, 2011 - Agcapita Partners LP
Agcapita Farmland Fund III Has Been Opened to Investors with a $20 Million Offering
Agcapita Partners is pleased to announce that Agcapita Farmland Fund III has been opened to investors. Agcapita Fund III is the only RRSP eligible farmland fund in Canada and is a $20 million offering. - September 18, 2011 - Agcapita Partners LP
Forex Club Now Offers the MetaTrader4™ Platform
Forex Club has added the MetaTrader 4™ platform to its suite of trading tools. Clients can now use the MetaTrader 4™ platform for online trading. - September 17, 2011 - Forex Club
Steve Elliott Senior VP Sales Western Canada for Mineral Fields to Present at the Alternative Investment Conference
Steve Elliott Senior VP Sales Western Canada for Mineral Fields/Pathway Asset Management and Energy Fields will be speaking at the Alternative Investment Conference this Saturday in Calgary. Steve will discuss the benefits of Flow-Through shares. - September 15, 2011 - Enquirica Research
Fisher Investments Attending Cal Career Fair
Woodside-based money management firm initiates campus recruiting at UC Berkeley - September 14, 2011 - Fisher Investments
Fundsnet: Inflation Decrease is Good for Emerging Market Investment
Writing in his blog, Founder and Chairman of Fundsnet.co.uk, a financial investment company, highlights predictions that the lower inflation rate is good for emerging market investment. - September 12, 2011 - Fundsnet Limited
Demography is Destiny: Why America Will Remain the Most Successful Nation on Earth
While pundits are busy forecasting the decline of America, author Joel Kotkin believes the demographic trajectory of the United States will secure her standing as the “most affluent, culturally rich and successful nation in human history.” In his book The Next Hundred Million: America... - September 11, 2011 - Enquirica Research
Ricky Arshi, President of PRISM Developments Will Present at The Alternative Investment Conference Saturday September 17, 2011
Ricky Arshi President of PRISM Developments will be presenting at the Alternative Investing Conference in Calgary September 17th. Mr. Arshi will be talking about Calgary's leading real estate investment and development company. - September 10, 2011 - Enquirica Research
Seven More Broker-Dealers Adopt Erado for Social Media
Erado the nation's lead service in SaaS based archiving of electronic communications, formally announces its exclusive agreement to provide social media compliance services to Liberty Partners Financial Services, LLC, Jeffrey Matthews Financial Group, LLC, Protected Investors of America, Inc.,... - September 09, 2011 - Erado
David Udy Capstone Real Estate Managing Partner to Present at the Alternative Investing Conference
David Udy Capstone Real Estate Managing Partner to present at the Alternative Investing Conference in Calgary September 17th. Mr Udy will be talking about Canadians investing in real estate in Phoenix, Arizona. - September 09, 2011 - Enquirica Research