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Tuesday Nov 24, 2009

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Healthy Coffee International, Inc. (Other OTC: HCEI.PK) has established offices in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, Pilipinas, Sweden, UK, and many more countries to achieve the company’s short term goal of $1 million a month in sales. Healthy Coffee USA is the next big opportunity of the decade. It is well positioned in the market place at the intersection of three mega-billion dollar industries: coffee, wellness and energy drinks, and has quickly moved into international markets by establishing preliminary

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Recently, a number of lawsuits have been filed against Manulife Financial Corporation (MFC). Manulife and some of its executive officers are being charged for violation of federal securities laws. The lawsuits, filed on behalf of the purchasers of Manulife securities between March 28, 2008 and June 22, 2009, are about Manulife's segregated fund contracts business. Segregated fund contracts that offer death benefits and maturity guarantees. On June 19, 2009, MFC disclosed that it has received an enforcement notice from the staff of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) regarding its disclosure before March 2009 of risks related to its variable annuity guarantee and segregated funds business. Manulife has been accused of making false and misleading statements regarding its ability to manage and control risk in the segregated fund contracts business. According to the allegations, Manulife had built a huge stock portfolio that it did not hedge. ...

It was bound to happen, I suppose. While exchange-traded funds have not yet attracted the multi-trillions of dollars that mutual funds have, ETFs have become popular enough they’re starting to acquire some of the bad habits of their older rivals.

The first generation of ETFs were low-cost, broadly diversified products from firms like Barclays and Vanguard, well suited to average investors wishing to expose the core of their portfolios to the broad equity market.

But we are well into the second phase of ETF proliferation, with more volatile sector ETFs sporting considerably higher price tags. How complex it’s become can be inferred from the fact BetaPro Management Inc. is hosting an all-day Horizons ETF University session today at Ryerson University, part of a seven-city road show. 

BetaPro came under fire last week from consumer advocacy group FAIR for not disclosing clearly enough

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The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday charged BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Limited (RIMM) and four of its senior executives for stock option backdating.br /br /The SEC’s complaint alleges that Ontario, Canada-based RIMM, its former Chief Financial Officer Dennis Kavelman, former Vice President of Finance Angelo Loberto, and Co-Chief Executive Officers James Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis illegally granted undisclosed, in-the-money options to RIMM executives and employees by backdating millions of stock options over an eight-year period from 1998 through 2006.br /br /”As alleged in our complaint, RIMM and its highest level executives engaged in widespread backdating of options which provided them and other employees with millions of dollars in undisclosed compensation,” said Linda Chatman Thomsen, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. “This enforcement action underscores the SEC’s resolve to assure full and accurate disclosure to U.S. investors by foreign issuers.”br /br /Antonia Chion, Associate Director of the SEC’s Division …