CII gives BoSIS Chartered Financial Planners title
The Chartered Insurance Institute has today awarded Bank of Scotland Investment Service the Chartered Financial Planners title for firms. ...

Police budget a 'bump in the road' for financial planners
Approval of the 2009 budget for Cambridge will have to wait a few more weeks. The item was pulled from the agenda of City Council's Finance Committee meeting Monday

FPSC unveils changes to CFP certification program
Following months of feedback on proposed changes to the Certified Financial Planner certification program, the Financial Planners Standards Council is officially implementing changes that will come into effect July 1, 2010.

Draw up a financial plan to build the lifestyle you want
A financial plan is a blueprint that defines how you will achieve your finaåncial and lifestyle objectives. At the acsis/Personal Finance Financial Planning Club's series of meetings this month, Gerrit Viljoen, the director of Ultima Financial Planners in Pretoria, talked about what you need to consider when drawing up a financial plan.

Solutions needed for financial illiteracy
Cold Lake Community PALS is a group of women in our city who help people in the areas of affordable housing, food security and financial literacy. I applaud their efforts.

Financial 411: How to get out gracefully
Phone in questions on financial planning and strategies

Reeling and dealing with economic angst
Roiling financial news - day after day after day - is stirring macro- and microeconomics into a psychic stew of stress for a lot of people.

BREAKING NEWS: City Council rejects tightening sign law
The San Angelo City Council agreed with business owners today on two of three items of contention in a proposed new sign ordinance - rejecting planners' and permit officials' recommendation that video animation be banned from electronic signs and expanding the use of sandwich-board sidewalk signs to the entire city.

Matters Of Trusts
Trustees take care of the details of wealth transfer. Here's how to choose the right one.

by Mark P. Cussen ,CFP®, CMFC
Should You Put Your Faith In A Trust? ( Contact Author | Biography ) Banks , insurance companies, brokerage firms and financial planning firms - they all want a piece of your portfolio, and consumers often find that their assets are scattered among these institutions.

Long-term care expert to speak to financial planners in Boise
Steve Moses, an expert on long-term care and Medicaid, will address Boise?s finest financial and estate planning professionals from 9 to 11 a.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4 at the U.S. Bank building, Downtown Boise.

Parents face college-vs.-retirement quandary
(By Dave Carpenter, Associated Press) The stock market slide that has decimated savings for retirement and college with equal savagery is forcing many parents into an uncomfortable choice of where to cut back first. Common sense and mathematics make it a straightforward call in the eyes of many financial planners: Even if college looms soon for your child, retirement savings has to be the top ...

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India Demands Pakistan Hand Over Fugitives
As tensions increased between nuclear-armed neighbors after the Mumbai attacks, India demanded that Pakistan hand over 20 people that it considers to be ?fugitives.?

Mumbai emerges after terrorist attacks
Though scarred and traumatized by last week's terrorist attacks, this crowded, hyperactive city of 18 million cannot stay shut down for long. Schools and businesses reopened Monday in Mumbai as residents of India's financial engine struggled to come to terms with the bloodshed.

Arts groups work to preserve city building
During these trying economic times, the Oswego Players and the Oswego Art Association have taken it upon themselves to replace the windows in their city-owned building with their own funds, alleviating taxpayers from more financial strain and simultaneously making the building more energy efficient.

ETFs: a Better Way to Invest?
Exchange-traded funds are low cost and tax efficient, but commissions can be costly.

Popular program faces budget ax
HUDSON FALLS -- As the budget debate in Washington County draws to a close, farmers, 4-H students and financial planners are all wondering what will become of the Cornell Cooperative Extension.

County's budget woes may hit popular program
HUDSON FALLS -- As the budget debate in Washington County draws to a close, farmers, 4-H students and financial planners are all looking at what will become of the Cornell Cooperative Extension.

A financial plan can protect one from terror
Lokesh Nathany, national head of wealth management, Almondz Global Securities, Zankhana Shah, a certified financial planner and founder of Money Planner and Ranjeet Mudolkar, principal advisor, Financial Planning Standards Board, India spoke with Abhay Rao of The Financial Express about financial planning being the key to safeguarding ones interest in times of emergency