The NFL Players Association announced Tuesday that it has expanded its four-year-old partnership with Financial Finesse, the retirement and financial education provider, with the launch of a Financial Helpline service that NFLPA members can use.
In a webcast, Liz Davidson, founder and CEO of Financial Finesse (who also writes regularly for AdvisorOne) and Dana Hammond, director of player affairs and development for the NFL players union, spoke of the unique challenges faced by NFL players in managing their money, and the role that Financial Finesse has already played in educating players about not just the basics of money and investing, but also how to choose an advisor.
Hammond said that NFL players’ financial challenges starts with the fact that “We’re dealing with impressionable young men coming into the big NFL, playing out a lifelong dream.” However, “they’re often victims of financial advisors who are looking to separate them from their newfound wealth,” while “the requests they get from friends and family add to the pressures they’re feeling.”
Top 10 Financial Companies To Own For 2014: Virginia Commerce Bancorp(VCBI)
Virginia Commerce Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Virginia Commerce Bank that provides business and consumer banking services. The company accepts various deposit products comprising demand deposits, savings and money market accounts, and time deposits. It also originates commercial loans, commercial real estate loans, lines of credit, equipment financing, construction loans, letters of credit, residential mortgages, personal loans, auto loans, and home equity loans and lines of credit. In addition, the company offers merchant bankcard, electronic funds transfer, lock-box, remote deposit capture, online banking, investment, safe deposit boxes, and other customary banking services. It serves small-to-medium sized businesses, including firms that have contracts with the U.S. government, associations, retailers, industrial businesses, professionals and their firms, business executives, investors, and consumers. The company serves the Northern Virginia s uburbs of Washington, D.C. consisting of Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, Spotsylvania, and Stafford Counties; the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Manassas, and Manassas Park; and the Washington, D.C., as well as the nearby Maryland counties of Montgomery and Prince Georges. It operates through 28 branch offices, 1 residential mortgage office, and 1 investment services office. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
Top 10 Financial Companies To Own For 2014: Nuveen California Select Quality Municipal Fund Inc.(NVC)
Nuveen California Select Quality Municipal Fund, Inc. is a closed-ended fixed income mutual fund launched by Nuveen Investments, Inc. The fund is managed by Nuveen Asset Management. It invests in the fixed income markets of California. The fund invests primarily in municipal securities rated Baa/BBB or better. It invests in securities that provide income exempt from federal and California income tax. The fund employs fundamental analysis with bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolio. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the S&P California Municipal Bond Index and the S&P National Municipal Bond Index. Nuveen California Select Quality Municipal Fund, Inc. was formed on April 3, 1991 and is domiciled in the United States.
Top 5 Tech Stocks To Buy For 2014: Community Partners Bancorp(CPBC)
Community Partners Bancorp operates as the holding company for Two River Community Bank, a state-chartered commercial bank that provides a range of commercial and retail banking services to small and medium-sized businesses, not-for-profit organizations, professionals, and individuals principally in Monmouth and Union counties, New Jersey. The company offers a range of deposit products, including non-interest bearing or lower cost interest bearing checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit accounts. It also provides various loan products consisting of construction loans for residential dwellings, apartment buildings, restaurants, shopping centers, and owner-occupied business properties; commercial business loans; commercial real estate loans for the acquisition of new property or the refinancing of existing property; residential real estate and consumer loans, including residential mortgages, home equity lines of credit, equity loans, personal loans, automobile loans, and overdraft protection; participation loans; and small business administration loans. In addition, the company offers safe deposit boxes, night depositories, wire transfers, money orders, travelers? checks, automated teller machines, direct deposits, telephone and Internet banking services, and corporate business services. It operates 15 banking offices in Middletown, Allaire, Atlantic Highlands, Cliffwood, Manasquan, Navesink, Port Monmouth, Red Bank, Tinton Falls, West Long Branch, Westfield, Cranford, and Fanwood, New Jersey. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Middletown, New Jersey.
Top 10 Financial Companies To Own For 2014: Dewmar International BMC Inc (DEWM)
Dewmar International BMC, Inc., formerly Convenientcast, Inc., incorporated on August 15, 2003, focuses on searching for properties of merit to acquire and develop. On June 9, 2009, the Company sold its interest in the Big Andy Mine. In February 2012, the Company acquired The DSD Network of America, Inc.
The Company was formed as a holding company for making business acquisitions in various industries and providing business development services for those entities. As of December 31, 2009, it had not generated any revenues.
Top 10 Financial Companies To Own For 2014: Commerce Bancshares Inc.(CBSH)
Commerce Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Commerce Bank, N.A. that provides various general banking services to individuals and businesses. It operates in three segments: Consumer, Commercial, and Wealth. The Consumer segment includes the retail branch network, consumer installment lending, personal mortgage banking, consumer debit and credit bank card activities, and student lending. The Commercial segment provides various corporate lending, merchant and commercial bank card products, leasing, and international services, as well as business and government deposit and cash management services. The Wealth segment offers traditional trust and estate tax planning services, brokerage services, and advisory and discretionary investment portfolio management services to personal and institutional corporate customers. This segment also manages a family of proprietary mutual funds, which are available for sale to trust and general retail customers. The comp any, through its other non-banking subsidiaries, involves in underwriting credit life and credit accident, and health insurance; selling property and casualty insurance; private equity investment; securities brokerage; mortgage banking; and leasing activities. It serves customers through a network of branches and ATM machines, online banking, and a central contact center from approximately 370 locations in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Colorado. Commerce Bancshares, Inc. was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Monica Gerson]
Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ: CBSH) is projected to report its Q3 earnings at $0.72 per share on revenue of $254.92 million.
First Republic Bank (NYSE: FRC) is estimated to report its Q3 earnings at $0.76 per share on revenue of $320.72 million.
- [By John Maxfield]
Bank investors got their first glimpse of what first-quarter earnings might look like today when Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ: CBSH ) reported its results. Shares of the Kansas City-based bank are trading sharply lower after its earnings per share fell by 4.3% on a year-over-year basis.
Top 10 Financial Companies To Own For 2014: Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Fund Inc. (MSF)
Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Fund, Inc. is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. It invests in the public equity markets across the global emerging markets. The fund invests in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It makes its investments in companies across all market capitalizations. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the MSCI Emerging Markets Free Index. Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Fund Inc. was formed on November 1, 1991 and is domiciled in the United States.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By George Putnam, Editor, New Generation Research, Inc.]
Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Fund (MSF) is not an index-based fund, and therefore, its portfolio managers have a lot of latitude.
Among their top ten holdings are a range of consumer and technology holdings, such as Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor, as well as financials. At current prices, the fund is trading at a roughly 10.5% discount to its net asset value (NAV).
Top 10 Financial Companies To Own For 2014: Ishares Trust Dow Jones Select Dividend (DVY)
iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund (the Fund) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of a selected group of equity securities issued by companies that have provided relatively high dividend yields on a consistent basis over time. The Index stocks are screened by dividend-per-share growth rate, dividend payout percentage and average daily dollar trading volume, and are selected based on dividend yield.
The Index consists of 100 of the highest dividend-yielding securities (excluding real estate investment trusts) in the Dow Jones U.S. Total Market Index, an index representative of the total market for United States equity securities. To be included in the Index, the securities must have had a flat to positive dividend-per-share growth rate for each of the last five years; must have an average five-year dividend payout ratio of 60% or less, and must have a minimum three-month average trading volume of 200,000 shares a day. The Index is reconstituted annually. The Fund uses a representative sampling strategy in seeking to track the Index. The Fund�� investment advisor is Barclays Global Fund Advisors.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Dan Caplinger]
Investing in dividend stocks is easy. Exchange-traded funds Vanguard Dividend Appreciation (NYSEMKT: VIG ) , iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend (NYSEMKT: DVY ) , and SPDR S&P Dividend (NYSEMKT: SDY ) give you low-cost access to dozens or even hundreds of dividend-paying stocks, all within a single investment vehicle. If you prefer, you can also buy individual stocks, either through a broker or through direct investment plans. Blue-chip companies General Electric (NYSE: GE ) and Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG ) are just two of the hundreds of stocks that offer shares through direct plans and allow you to reinvest dividends automatically in additional shares at no fee.
- [By Jim Pyke]
If you recall my previous article that looked at iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index (DVY) and SPDR S&P Dividend ETF (SDY), there is an interesting comparison. While both SDY and DVY were underweight in Energy-Oils by substantial margin, both VIG and VYM are overweight in this sector. VIG has a 13.2% of its assets and VYM is at 13.0% relative to the market at 10.5%.
- [By Dan Caplinger]
Which dividend stocks are getting hit hardest?
So far, we've seen some evidence that dividend-paying stocks are doing worse than the overall market since the latest pullback began. Going back to the end of April, the iShares DJ Select Dividend ETF (NYSEMKT: DVY ) , which has a high concentration of strong dividend payers, has fallen about 4%, compared to a more-or-less flat performance from the S&P 500 and other broader benchmarks.
Top 10 Financial Companies To Own For 2014: Arch Capital Group Ltd.(ACGL)
Arch Capital Group Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides insurance and reinsurance products worldwide. It operates in two segments, Insurance and Reinsurance. The Insurance segment offers casualty; construction; executive assurance; healthcare; collateral protection, debt cancellation, and service contract reimbursement products; national accounts casualty; professional liability; programs; property, energy, marine, and aviation; surety; and travel and accident insurance products. It also provides other insurance products, such as excess workers compensation and employers' liability insurance coverages for qualified self-insured groups, associations, and trusts; captive insurance programs; and accident, disability, and medical plan insurance coverages for employer groups, medical plan members, students, and other participant groups. This segment markets its products through a network of licensed independent retail and wholesale brokers. The Reinsurance segment rei nsures third party liability and worker?s compensation exposures; individual property risks that include personal lines and commercial property exposures; other specialty lines, including surety, accident and health, workers' compensation catastrophe, multi-peril crop, trade credit, and political risk; catastrophic perils, such as hurricane, earthquake, flood, tornado, hail, and fire; marine business, which includes coverage for hull, cargo, and transit and offshore oil and gas operations, as well as aviation business that comprises coverage for airline and general aviation risks; and non-traditional business to provide insurers with risk management solutions. This segment markets its reinsurance products through brokers, as well as directly with the ceding companies. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Holly LaFon]
Arch Capital (ACGL)'s Dinos Iordanu recently described to our analysts how he met me in 2001. Before we invested in his business, we asked him all sorts of personal questions about how he came to America from Cyprus; whether or not his wife had a job; and how big was his house? He told our analysts that "Ron was trying to get a sense of me. He wanted to understand how I viewed risk. No one else asked us such questions. They were the right questions since you were investing in our business, which was assuming underwriting risk on your behalf. "We got it right with Dinos and have about quadrupled our money in the past twelve years, not exactly the most propitious time to invest in stocks! Of course, there can be no assurance that future investments will be as profitable��lthough you can be assured that we will continue to work hard to try to achieve similar results.
Top 10 Financial Companies To Own For 2014: Encore Capital Group Inc(ECPG)
Encore Capital Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in consumer debt buying and recovery business primarily in the United States. The company purchases and manages portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables, such as consumers? unpaid financial commitments to credit originators, including banks, credit unions, consumer finance companies, commercial retailers, auto finance companies, and telecommunication companies; and receivables subject to bankruptcy proceedings or consumer bankruptcy receivables. It also provides bankruptcy services to the finance industry, such as negotiating bankruptcy plans, monitoring and managing consumer?s compliance with bankruptcy plans, and recommending courses of action to clients in case of a deviation from a bankruptcy plan. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By John Udovich]
Small cap debt collection stocks like�Asta Funding, Inc (NASDAQ: ASFI), Encore Capital Group, Inc (NASDAQ: ECPG) and Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc (NASDAQ: PRAA) could be the latest target of a government shakedown or crackdown as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said this week that�before it formally proposes any rules for debt collection, it wants to hear how collectors verify borrowers' information and communicate with consumers. In other words, debt collectors could be restricted from using text messages, social media or other Internet-based tools in their pursuit to collect debts. With about one in 10 Americans coming out of the financial crisis with some debt in collection, investing in small cap�debt collection stocks has been profitable for investors. However, there is no timeline for when any new rules might be released for review or come into effect.
Top 10 Financial Companies To Own For 2014: Newport Bancorp Inc.(NFSB)
Newport Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Newport Federal Savings Bank that provides financial services to individuals and small businesses in Newport and Washington County, Rhode Island, and Stonington, Connecticut. It accepts various deposit products that include including non-interest-bearing demand deposits, such as checking accounts; interest-bearing demand accounts comprising NOW and money market accounts; regular savings accounts; and certificates of deposit. The company?s loan portfolio comprises one-to-four family residential real estate loans; multi-family and commercial real estate loans; home equity loans and lines; construction loans for one-to-four family homes and commercial, multi-family, and other nonresidential purposes; commercial loans; consumer and other loans, including auto loans; and loans secured by passbook savings or certificate accounts. It operates through its main office located in Newport; and five full-service branch offices located in Middletown, Wakefield, Westerly, and Portsmouth, Rhode Island, as well as Stonington, Connecticut. The company was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Newport, Rhode Island.
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