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Scottsdale Capital Advisors

Products, Services & Overview

Specializing in Pinksheet, OTCBB, and 144 Restricted Securities

* Consulting Services * Financial Planning * Online Trading Option * Bridge Financing/Loans * After hours trading * Mutual Funds * Corporate and Municipal Bonds * U.S. Treasury Securities * Cash Management account with free check writing privileges and debit card * Preferred Stock * Money Market Funds * Direct Participation Programs (such as Oil & Gas and Real Estate) * Debt Offerings * Pipe loans * IPO * Life insurance * Margin accounts * ESOPS * Estate Planning * Hedge Fund/Private Funds * Options * Private Placements * Rollover support, 401k, IRA

 

Fast and easy clearing of all stock certificates including 144 restricted securities Trading on a

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Scottsdale Capital Advisors

Products, Services & Overview

Specializing in Pinksheet, OTCBB, and 144 Restricted Securities

* Consulting Services * Financial Planning * Online Trading Option * Bridge Financing/Loans * After hours trading * Mutual Funds * Corporate and Municipal Bonds * U.S. Treasury Securities * Cash Management account with free check writing privileges and debit card * Preferred Stock * Money Market Funds * Direct Participation Programs (such as Oil & Gas and Real Estate) * Debt Offerings * Pipe loans * IPO * Life insurance * Margin accounts * ESOPS * Estate Planning * Hedge Fund/Private Funds * Options * Private Placements * Rollover support, 401k, IRA

 

Fast and easy clearing of all stock certificates including 144 restricted securities Trading on a certificate as early as 48 hours after deposit * Full service retail brokerage

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Dubai Exchange Benefits From Oil's Improved Fortunes

The Dubai Mercantile Exchange announced today that it has hit record levels of trading.

The exchange's chairman credited the uptick to positive market sentiment for oil and a move by the "Dubai Department of Petroleum Affairs to shift to a forward pricing model based on the DME Oman Crude Oil Futures Contract."

You can read the exchange's press release here.

 

Questions For BlackRock

Scott Burns of Morningstar has some interesting questions for BlackRock as it prepares to swallow Barclays Global Investors and its popular iShares brand.

Among them: What does it mean for iShares investors and what designs does the active management firm have for the ETF marketplace?

(He notes in the article that iPath ETNs aren't included in the deal. Wonder where he got that?)

You can read the story here.

 

BOX Going For The Gusto

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Boston Options Exchange is eliminating

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Watching Options On Sector ETFs

Noting a report by Susquehanna Financial Group, Barron's has a story about how options activity lately on the Select Sector Industrial SPDR (NYSE: XLI) has been bullish. 

You can read the story here.

Barclays Could Pick BGI Winner By Monday

Dueling reports were coming out Friday about prospects that Barclays Plc would need to unload its ETF business, Barclays Global Investors. 

The Financial Times reported that the parent London-based bank had done well on its ongoing stress test by regulators and that it doesn't appear to need to raise more assets. 

However, later Wall Street Journal and wire reports indicated that the auction process was continuing. Bids were to be reviewed over the weekend and a possible decision could come as early as Monday, according to Dow Jones Newswires. 

You can read the DJ story here. A Bloomberg News story on the stress test and bidding process

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At year-end 2007, US retail investments in mutual funds were approximately 57% allocated to equities, 14% to bond funds and 26% to money market funds, based on data from the “2008 ICI Factbook”.

Within the equity category, US retail investors were 74.1% allocated to US stocks and 25.9% allocated to international stocks. Based on world market-cap allocations, that represents an approximate 80% overweight for US stocks and an approximate 56% underweight for non-US stocks.

Although some US institutions do invest in mutual funds, they accounted for only 13.9% of US mutual fund assets in 2007. That was sufficiently low, that we believe mutual fund allocations are reasonably representative of US retail investor behavior.

US mutual fund assets at the end of 2007 represented 46% of worldwide mutual fund assets. That tracks fairly closely with the 44.15% US market-cap among the world’s stock markets …

Alex’s Notes: One of the biggest problems our nations faces today is that the common American has a very low level of financial literacy. Generations of spin and information control have led us to a current generation of Americans and even “Financial Experts” who do not truly understand how our economy works. Beginning at US college level teaching economics studies, you can find misinformation teaching our future generations of financial leaders that you can simply create wealth through debt, unchecked printing of money, and federal spending. A quick look at the facts show that healthy growing economies are based on savings and capital investment, not expansion funded by debt. China for example has a national savings rate approaching 52%. China has a growing middle class and will be able to make the transition from an export economy to a more balanced economy dependant more on domestic revenues. Yet, when we see a massive devaluation ...