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

'Pakistan Not To Hand Over Terror Suspects'
(RTTNews) - In a clear indication that shows Pakistan is not willing to act on terror groups launching attacks on India from its soil, President Asif Ali Zardari continues to be in denial mode of his country's involvement in the audacious terrorist attacks in Mumbai, saying the terror strikes in the India's financial capital were executed by the "stateless actors" who wanted to hold the "entire ...

Pakistan not responsible for Mumbai terror attacks, says Zardari
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari has strongly denied his country's involvement in the audacious attacks in Mumbai, saying the terror strikes in the India's financial capital were executed by the 'stateless actors who wanted to hold the entire world hostage'.Zardari also ruled out any possibility of Pakistan and India going to war, saying "democracies do not go to war". He asserted that the ...

Mumbai Attackers Were 'Stateless Actors', Says Zardari
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari has strongly denied his country's involvement in the audacious attacks in Mumbai, saying the terror strikes in the India's financial capital were executed by the "Stateless actors" who wanted to hold the "entire world hostage."

Mumbai attackers were stateless actors: Zardari
Asif Ali Zardari has strongly denied his country's involvement in the audacious attacks in Mumbai, saying the terror strikes in the India's financial capital were executed by the "Stateless actors" who wanted to hold the "entire world hostage.

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.

Zardari: 'Pakistan in no way responsible' for Mumbai attacks
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari denied his nation was involved in last week's deadly attacks on Mumbai, India, and told CNN on Tuesday he's seen no evidence that a suspect in custody is a Pakistani national as Indian officials claim.

UnitedHealth to Insure the Right to Insurance
The company will sell the right to buy an individual health policy in the future even if you become sick.

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.?

Pakistan will not hand over terror suspects: Zardari
"If we had proof, we would try them in our courts. We would try them in our land and we would sentence them," Pakistan President Zardari said.