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Friday October 23, 2009

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Power3 Medical Products, Inc. (OTCBB: PWRM), a leader in neurodegenerative disease and cancer biomarkers and diagnostic tests, announces further international recognition of validity as the company’s President and CSO, Dr. Ira Goldknopf, will deliver an invited Keynote address and chair a session on “Biomarkers and Diagnostics in Personalized Medicine (Track 6-4),” at the BIT Life Sciences 2nd International Congress and Expo of Molecular Diagnostics in Beijing, China, November 19-21, 2009. The Theme of the meeting is “New Leadership of

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In April 2008, State Street’s intermediary business group, which is the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, launched SPDR University—an agile learning portal exclusively for financial advisors.

The intermediary business group is responsible for distributing its SPDR (pronounced “spider”) Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and additional products via financial advisors, brokers, and other investment professionals. While State Street is one of the world’s largest ETF providers, competition for advisor mindshare—and assets—is fierce. That’s why State Street made a strategic decision to offer its prospects and customers considerably more than just investment product and performance data.

Gary MacDonald, managing director and director of marketing for State Street’s intermediary business group says, “We needed a marketing approach that strongly differentiated our value from the competition.”

State Street wanted to

1.extend the SPDR brand to its prospects and
2.build greater brand loyalty among existing customers,

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The purpose of IBOR is to protect financial markets and to create self-sufficient investors who produce economic growth instead of government deficits. IBOR standards create transparent financial markets, regulate speculation, and protect retirement portfolios. Here’s a sampling:

Section One: Product Transparency. All investors have a right to see precisely what securities are inside any investment product by accessing real time information that includes names and cost-based allocation percentages.

Section Two: Regulation and Education.

Section Three: Protection from Speculators. Investors have a right to protection from risks added to portfolios without their control, knowledge, or permission.
Naked shorting, index fund ownership of large share positions, and all naked option transactions would be prohibited.

Section Four: Controls of Hedge Funds.

Section Five: Brokerage Account Statements. Investors have a right to account statements that: 1) help manage asset allocation targets, 2) report realized gains and losses, 3) track …

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Kansas-based, Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. (WDR), one of the nation's oldest mutual fund asset managers, offers investment management, investment product underwriting and distribution, as well as shareholder services.A slowdown of sales momentum and a sharp decline in assets under management (AUM) impacted asset-based fee revenue [in its most recent quarter], which led to an overall decline in revenue across all channels. Assets under management decreased 14.7% sequentially (though up 0.7% year-over-year) to $59.8 billion as of September 30, 2008.We anticipate the decline in AUM to continue to hurt the top-line for the next few months, in view of the continued downturn in the global markets. We have reduced our FY08 and FY09 EPS estimates and downgraded our recommendation on the shares to a Sell with a six-month target price of $10.75 per share.Read the full analyst report on WDR...

Well, maybe.IndexUniverse.com had an article about Bank of NY creating a bunch of GDR indexes (similar to ADRs but traded in the UK) for quite a few countries and a couple of broad based indexes too.The list;BahrainCroatiaEgyptEstoniaGeorgiaHungaryIndiaIsraelKazakhstanKuwaitLebanonNetherlandsNigeriaOmanPakistanPolandRomaniaRussiaSouth KoreaTaiwanTurkeyUAEUkraineEastern EuropeEaster Europe ex-RussiaMENAMiddle EastAfricaEmerging Markets It is a good bet that these indexes are being created in the hope that someone will license them into some sort of investment product like an ETF.I've long been of the opinion that portfolio construction is in the middle of a rather swift evolution and have expected/hoped that the world of investment products would generally keep up with that need. Accessing individual stocks from these countries is very difficult and even if they were easily accessible the task of stock picking would be difficult too.Chances are that when things get healthier ...

We were recently asked by a prospective client to identify when we became bearish and clearly said so — to demonstrate whether we were ahead of or behind the trend.

That seemed like a fair question.  If one person is willing to ask, several more may be thinking the question.  Here is our answer.

The best place to go for that information is the written record.  Here are quotes from articles posted on this blog that show we were pretty far ahead of the major damage, and have been advising raising cash for some time now.

Note: We are alert for a re-entry point and are accumulating a buy list for those things we want to own. Dividends are becoming juicy, but as of today we don’t think it’s time yet to go back in.

August 21st, 2007 Better Safe Than Sorry

Sometimes risk reduction and capital preservation are of higher importance than pursuit of

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We the securities investors of the United States, in order to form more transparent financial markets, establish effective regulations, defend against destructive speculation and manipulation, promote financial well-being, preserve working capital, and protect retirement income, do establish this Securities Investors Bill of Rights and Protections (SIBORAP).

These rights are intended to replace, amend and/or abolish all laws and regulations currently in conflict with SIBORAP, and are to be implemented by all parties to financial transactions.

Any institutional efforts to create and/or market securities and/or derivative products that do not comply with the spirit of SIBORAP will result in fines to corporate officers and directors, congressional oversight committee members, regulatory agency directors, and their financial or legal counsel.

All derivative investment products of any kind, any investment programs or specific recommendations promoted in any medium by non-professionals and professionals alike, SEC …

European ETF market is still well behind US. By the end of 2007 assets in European ETF bln vs US $581 bln. Nevertheless European assets grew by 43% last year. In terms of issues 423 vs 601. Even thought ETF is the fastest growing retail investment product ETF market makes up only 5% of mutual funds assets in US. In Europe the number is even smaller, around 2%.Equity based ETF are the most popular. In Europe it's about 80% of the market and in US 90%. Bonds are glamour ETF in Europe.Worldwide leading issuer is Barclays Global Investors (BSC), iShares. In US followed by State Street Global Advisors, Vanguard, Power Shares, ProShares and others. In Europe first position again for Barclays, then Lyxor and Deutsche Bank (DB) with rapidly growing db x-trackers.Ten top ETF...