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Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines: U.S. names roster for 2011 Women’s World Cup

Almost 20 years have passed since the likes of Michelle Akers, Carin Jennings, Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm forever etched their names into soccer’s history book by winning the inaugural Women’s World Cup in China in 1991. Now, two decades later, another U.S. team will set out on a similar quest, and on Monday, Coach Pia Sundhage named the 21 players she will take to Europe next month to compete in the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Germany.
Had Kristine Lilly not decided to retire earlier this year, there would have been a direct link between “the ’91ers” and the 2011 side, and Lilly would have become the first player in soccer history — men’s or women’s — to play in six World Cups.
Instead, it will be up to several other veterans of previous campaigns to lead the charge for the Americans.
Chief among them are Christie Rampone, the 35-year-old defender and team captain who will be taking part in her fourth World Cup, as well as midfielder Shannon Boxx and forward Abby Wambach, who will each be playing in their third.
“We went to China for the Olympics in 2008 with Christie Rampone as our captain, and the way she is stepping up and the way she handles herself on and off the field, she is the best captain I’ve ever … played with,” said Sundhage, herself a veteran of the 1991 tournament when she played for Sweden.
Rampone is one of 14 players on the roster who were on the U.S. squad that won the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. Eight of those 14 were starters, including Carli Lloyd, who scored the winning goal in extra time in the gold-medal match against Brazil.
The 2011 U.S. team consists entirely of professional players and the average age of the team is 27, with forward Alex Morgan the youngest at 21.
Despite the veterans on the team, the U.S. squad is short of actual World Cup experience. Only nine of the players have previously taken part in the quadrennial world championship, and only Rampone was on the U.S. team that won it all in 1999.
Still, Sundhage said she was more than satisfied with the roster she has put together for the 16-team event. “We have people that organize defensively, people that can step up when it really matters, people that are good in the air, people that are fighters, and tricky ones as well,” she said.
The U.S. has not won the Women’s World Cup since 1999, when it defeated China on penalty kicks in front of 90,185 at the Rose Bowl. It lost to Germany in the semifinals in 2003 and to Brazil in the semifinals in 2007.
Nevertheless, it is ranked No. 1 in the world and is among the favorites for the June 26-July 17 tournament, along with host and defending champion Germany, and Brazil.
The U.S. will play North Korea, Colombia and Sweden in the first round, starting with the Koreans on June 28 in Dresden.
The full U.S. roster, by position:
Goalkeepers: Nicole Barnhart, Jill Loyden, Hope Solo.
Defenders: Rachel Buehler, Stephanie Cox, Ali Krieger, Amy LePeilbet, Heather Mitts, Christie Rampone, Becky Sauerbrunn.
Midfielders: Shannon Boxx, Tobin Heath, Lori Lindsey, Carli Lloyd, Heather O’Reilly, Megan Rapinoe, Lindsay Tarpley.
Forwards: Lauren Cheney, Alex Morgan, Amy Rodriguez, Abby Wambach.

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Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines: U.S. names roster for 2011 Women’s World Cup

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Now, two decades later, another U.S. team will set out on a similar quest, and on Monday, Coach Pia Sundhage named the 21 players she will take to Europe next month to compete in the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Germany.
Had Kristine Lilly not decided to retire earlier this year, there would have been a direct link between “the ’91ers” and the 2011 side, and Lilly would have become the first player in soccer history — men’s or women’s — to play in six World Cups.
Instead, it will be up to several other veterans of previous campaigns to lead the charge for the Americans.
Chief among them are Christie Rampone, the 35-year-old defender and team captain who will be taking part in her fourth World Cup, as well as midfielder Shannon Boxx and forward Abby Wambach, who will each be playing in their third.
“We went to China for the Olympics in 2008 with Christie Rampone as our captain, and the way she is stepping up and the way she handles herself on and off the field, she is the best captain I’ve ever … played with,” said Sundhage, herself a veteran of the 1991 tournament when she played for Sweden.
Rampone is one of 14 players on the roster who were on the U.S. squad that won the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. Eight of those 14 were starters, including Carli Lloyd, who scored the winning goal in extra time in the gold-medal match against Brazil.
The 2011 U.S. team consists entirely of professional players and the average age of the team is 27, with forward Alex Morgan the youngest at 21.
Despite the veterans on the team, the U.S. squad is short of actual World Cup experience. Only nine of the players have previously taken part in the quadrennial world championship, and only Rampone was on the U.S. team that won it all in 1999.
Still, Sundhage said she was more than satisfied with the roster she has put together for the 16-team event. “We have people that organize defensively, people that can step up when it really matters, people that are good in the air, people that are fighters, and tricky ones as well,” she said.
The U.S. has not won the Women’s World Cup since 1999, when it defeated China on penalty kicks in front of 90,185 at the Rose Bowl. It lost to Germany in the semifinals in 2003 and to Brazil in the semifinals in 2007.
Nevertheless, it is ranked No. 1 in the world and is among the favorites for the June 26-July 17 tournament, along with host and defending champion Germany, and Brazil.
The U.S. will play North Korea, Colombia and Sweden in the first round, starting with the Koreans on June 28 in Dresden.
The full U.S. roster, by position:
Goalkeepers: Nicole Barnhart, Jill Loyden, Hope Solo.
Defenders: Rachel Buehler, Stephanie Cox, Ali Krieger, Amy LePeilbet, Heather Mitts, Christie Rampone, Becky Sauerbrunn.
Midfielders: Shannon Boxx, Tobin Heath, Lori Lindsey, Carli Lloyd, Heather O’Reilly, Megan Rapinoe, Lindsay Tarpley.

Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines: LinkedIn looks for $32 to $35 per share in IPO

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NEW YORK — Professional networking website LinkedIn hopes to sell its stock for $32 to $35 per share in an upcoming initial public offering. Its IPO may encourage other growing Internet services to make their stock market debuts during the next year.
The price target, set in a filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, signals that LinkedIn is nearly ready to complete its IPO. The shares are expected to be sold May 18, according to IPO analyst Scott Sweet. The stock would then begin trading under the ticker symbol of “LNKD” on the New York Stock Exchange.
The company’s debut could offer a preview of investor demand for other popular online services that connect people with common interests. Although they haven’t set timetables, Facebook, Twitter, the online deals site Groupon and the game maker Zynga are among the other social-networking services expected to go public.
With more than 500 million users, Facebook is considered to the hottest commodity of them all. The 7-year-old company’s market value has been pegged at $50 billion, based on a private investment in January.
The company said the offering could raise up to $274 million, including the cash that would to go existing shareholders who are selling part of their stakes in the IPO. Based
on the IPO’s price targets, LinkedIn would have a market value of $3 billion to $3.3 billion.Former PayPal executive Reid Hoffman founded LinkedIn eight years ago. Now a venture capitalist, Hoffman remains LinkedIn’s chairman and largest shareholder with a projected post-IPO stake worth $600 million to $665 million.
LinkedIn’s stock offering is expected to attract a lot of attention because it revolves around a well-known Internet brand with more than 100 million registered members.
Most of LinkedIn’s revenue comes from fees it charges for recruiters and businesses that want expanded access to LinkedIn’s website to help fill job openings. The company also sells online ads.
Last year, LinkedIn had net income of $3.4 million on revenue of $243 million. Its revenue totaled $94 million during the first three months of this year, more than doubling from the same period last year.
LinkedIn will offer 4.8 million shares. The company’s current stockholders, including Hoffman, Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs and publishing company McGraw-Hill, will sell 3 million shares.
The company, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., said there will be 94.5 million common shares outstanding after the IPO.
After paying investment banking fees and other expenses, LinkedIn estimated it will collect nearly $147 million from the IPO at the midrange target price of $33.50. LinkedIn plans to use the money for operations and possibly to buy other companies.

Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines: Pakistan Will Allow U.S. to Question Bin Laden’s Wives

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Pakistani military and police officials cordon off a street beside Osama Bin Laden’s final hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Photographer: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images
Pakistan will allow the U.S. to question the three wives of Osama bin Laden who were with him in the compound where American commandos killed the al-Qaeda leader last week, granting a measure of cooperation amid tensions following the raid.
The Obama administration expects to get access to the women soon, based on a response from the Pakistani government, a U.S. official said yesterday on condition of anonymity. The specific timing of the access wasn’t set, the official said.
The decision followed verbal skirmishing between the two countries. Pakistani officials have said that the U.S. should have informed Pakistan of the operation in advance. U.S. officials have questioned how much Pakistani authorities knew about bin Laden’s presence in their country.
The Obama administration said yesterday that it wouldn’t apologize for entering Pakistan to raid bin Laden’s compound, as the South Asian country’s prime minister tried to counter domestic criticism over the military’s failure to detect and stop the U.S. attack.
“We obviously take the statements and concerns of the Pakistani government seriously,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said yesterday, speaking after Pakistan’s prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, addressed the Parliament in Islamabad. “But we also do not apologize for the actions that we took.”
U.S. Reliance
The Obama administration, while expressing suspicions about Pakistani aid to bin Laden, aims to preserve a relationship that has allowed CIA drone strikes against militants and at least partly stemmed the flow of fighters into neighboring Afghanistan. The U.S. also relies on Pakistan for transit of supplies from ports on its southern coast for the U.S.-led coalition fighting insurgents in the war next door.
The U.S. will know soon “just how and by whom bin Laden was protected in Pakistan for a decade as it goes through the computers and documents snatched in the raid,” Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer and counterterrorism adviser to the U.S. government, said by e-mail. Evidence of ties between bin Laden and Pakistan’s army or intelligence services would move the relationship “from crisis to confrontation,” he said.
The three wives are among an unspecified number of women and children who survived the assault on the compound and were left behind.

Three Wives

Pakistani authorities have said they found the three wives and nine children at the site. In addition to bin Laden, three men and one of their wives were killed during the raid. Only bin Laden’s body was removed, according to the U.S. One of the men killed was his son, and the other two were couriers; no other adult males were left behind, the U.S. official said.
While there has been a war of words, the Pentagon says supply convoys to Afghanistan continue to operate and Pakistan has not imposed any new restrictions on the 300 U.S. military trainers and other personnel who have been working with the Pakistani army to improve its counterinsurgency capabilities.
The U.S. also said it had no plans to pull the CIA’s station chief from Pakistan after at least one newspaper and a television station there named someone they said held that position.

Pakistani Investigation

Gilani, the prime minister, said the army would lead an investigation of intelligence failures that allowed bin Laden to go undetected. Authorities also will review why its military failed to react to the U.S. operation that killed the al-Qaeda chief in a house in Abbottabad, near the country’s most prestigious military academy.
President Barack Obama, in an interview broadcast May 8 on CBS’s “60 Minutes” program, said the U.S. suspects that bin Laden had a support network in Pakistan and that the government there needs to investigate.
Gilani said bin Laden’s killing was “justice” for the terrorist attacks the al-Qaeda leader had ordered, including those against Pakistani citizens. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, had provided leads that eventually helped locate bin Laden, he said.
Gilani was less critical of the U.S. than he might have been, said Marvin Weinbaum, an Afghanistan and Pakistan analyst in the State Department’s bureau of intelligence research until 2003 and now a scholar in residence at the Middle East Institute in Washington.

‘Worst Nightmare’

“Pakistan’s political leadership knows this is a relationship that is important” to its survival, Weinbaum said in a telephone interview. The “worst nightmare” for Pakistani leaders is that they push the U.S. toward India, he said.
Obama spoke with India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday morning about the raid and the “strategic partnership” between the two nations, the administration said in a statement.
Gilani may have been alluding to India when he cautioned against “wrong conclusions” from the raid. India’s military chief, General V.K. Singh, and Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik said last week that their country also had the capability to strike against terrorists inside Pakistani cities, The Times of India reported on May 6.
While ordinary Pakistanis and opposition parties have demanded answers from the government and the military, analysts said the administration of President Asif Ali Zardari was unlikely to be badly damaged.
“The U.S. has yet not blamed the Pakistani government for bin Laden’s presence. Zardari’s biggest challenge now is to control the damage by conducting a transparent inquiry,” said Nasir Zaidi, an analyst at the Institute of Regional Studies in Islamabad.
Zardari’s main opposition, the Pakistan Muslim League led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, will meet in Islamabad today to discuss the U.S. raid.
“Pakistan’s independence has been hurt and Pakistanis are deeply worried,” Sharif told reporters in Lahore yesterday. “The nation may face a crisis if the right steps are not taken.”
To contact the reporters on this story: Viola Gienger in Washington at vgienger@bloomberg.net; Haris Anwar in Islamabad at hanwar2@bloomberg.net

Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines:Why the bin Laden bounce went “boing”

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Stocks rallied today on surprisingly strong payroll data — but what happened to the exuberant post-bin Laden rally that was supposed to ignite financial markets five days ago? Following the May 1 shooting of Osama bin Laden, the markets rose, then shrugged for the rest of the week until employment data buoyed Wall Street today.
Was that all there was to the bin Laden bounce? The risk in buying stocks, bonds and perhaps commodities eased for a day. But euphoria never lasts long.
The myth that you can benefit from short-term rallies is a dangerous one. By the time you get in the game, the global village has moved on.
There are so many other dragons in the world economy. Killing one terrorist won’t mean a hill of beans. You still need to focus on your bottom line. The uncertainty premium is still soaring. Speculative barometers of financial fear — precious metals — have retreated as well, but have pushed record highs in recent weeks.
“The geopolitical risks remain,” said New York University Economist Nouriel Roubini on May 2, …”we have to address our own problems.”
Let me count the ways that make markets even more volatile than ever. Following the fizzle of the bin Laden rally, the VIX volatility index rose eight percent. This is a widely used gauge of stock market fear.
The U.S. bond market is no less skittish. The U.S. must either raise its debt ceiling or make draconian budget cuts — a bad idea during an economic recovery — or face default on its national $14.3 trillion debt by August 2. Bonds are already under pressure from the widely held idea that inflation will be back in a big way.
If the markets somehow became safer for long-term income investors, then you would have seen a major retreat in gold prices. That didn’t happen.
The idea that you should pay attention to short-term blips or news events as major harbingers of economic activity should be cleansed from your mind. It will distract you from some productive long-term thinking on markets.
Let’s take a look at the last decade to get an idea of how short-term investing can distract you.
As you know, the 2000s or “naughty aughties,” was a poor one for large-company stocks, which lost an average 0.9 percent during the decade. Here’s what else was going on in history courtesy of Ibbotson Associates’ “SBBI Classic 2011 Yearbook”:

If you were a nervous Nellie and kept all of your money in ultra-safe, but low-yielding, U.S. Treasury Bills in the last decade, you would eked out a 2.8 return. That’s slightly ahead of inflation for the decade (2.5 percent), but a loser if those bonds were in a taxable account.
Leading the pack in the last decade were long-term government and corporate bonds at 7.7 percent and 7.6 percent, respectively.
Let’s go back even further to the 1990s, 1980s and 1970s. You would think that big-company stocks were in their heyday, right? You’re partially right. Blue chips led all comers with an 18-percent return in the ’90s and 17.6-percent return in the ’80s.
But take a close look at which category came up in second place in the 80s and 90s, then led last year with a nearly 10-percent return: small-company stocks. The little guys also dominated in the dismal 1970s (up 11.5 percent); 1960s (up 15 percent); and 1940s (up 21 percent), half of which was marred by the Great Depression.

If you’re not a trader, think broad, deep and long-term. You can own most of the above-mentioned U.S. stocks and bonds with two exchange-traded funds: The iShares Barclays Aggregate Bond exchange-traded fund, a staple in my income portfolio; and the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF.
You can almost never predict what recent historical events will mean over time. Short-term events rarely predict the future; the world may be a safer place in the short term, yet terrorism may rear its ugly head in reprisals. Wealth building takes time and vision. If you don’t have one, get a financial plan. Better yet, get a life plan.

Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines:Republicans Make Power Play To Gut Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

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On Thursday, while House Republicans were dealing with a small Medicare privatization snafu, their Senate counterparts laid down an impossible marker. Forty four of their 47 members have signed on to a letter threatening to filibuster any nominee to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unless it is dramatically weakened.
“We will not support the consideration of any nominee, regardless of party affiliation, to be the CFPB director until the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is reformed,” reads a letter, co-authored by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), ranking member of the Banking Committee.
Congress created the CFPB, despite GOP opposition, as part of the Wall Street reform law, to protect consumers from predatory actors in the financial industry. Its intellectual godmother is Elizabeth Warren, whom President Obama has tasked with standing up the agency. Despite her popularity, she’s been a long-shot to run the Bureau when it officially launches — largely because of financial industry and Republican (and even some Democratic) opposition. Indeed, former Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) — who poured cold water on the idea of nominating Warren — warned that if Democrats tried to jam a director through the Senate without bipartisan support, Republicans would go to war against the Bureau and try to gut it.
Turns out that’s what’s happening anyhow. Who could’ve predicted?
Specifically, Republicans want the CFPB subject to the appropriations process — something it avoids as an entity housed in the Federal Reserve. They also want to delegate more decision making authority away from the Bureau’s director, and give other regulators — many of which are captured by the financial industry — opportunities to block CFPB rules.
This shouldn’t be a winning fight, if Democrats don’t want it to be. The financial reform law is still fairly popular, and the CFPB is the most popular part of it. President Obama could use recess appointment to fill the vacancy, and take the fight public. At this point it’s a question of how he and Senate Democrats decide to handle it.
Note, not signing the letter were Sens. Scott Brown (R-MA), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and John Ensign (R-NV), who stepped down before it was released. Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Susan Collins (R-ME), who along with Brown voted for the financial reform law, added their names to the roster.

Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines:Britain’s commitment to climate finance

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BRITISH Foreign Secretary William Hague has described climate change as “perhaps the 21st century’s biggest foreign policy challenge”.
He has stressed that “a world which is failing to respond to climate change is one in which the values embodied in the United Nations will not be met”.
Indeed, the UN Charter makes clear that a central purpose of that organisation is to “achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character”.
Climate change is just such a problem — and its impacts and costs fall disproportionately on developing countries. This is deeply unfair. So it was only right that in Cancun last December, the 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change reaffirmed the commitment from developed countries in Copenhagen in December 2009 to jointly mobilise US$100 billion (RM300 billion) a year by 2020 to climate finance to address the adaptation needs of developing countries and help them to limit their carbon emissions.
The United Kingdom takes this commitment seriously and recognises the need for urgent action. The British government has, therefore, allocated STG2.9 billion (RM14.3 billion) of Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) to international climate finance for the period 2011/12 to 2014/15 (including our Fast Start commitment).
This will be administered through our International Climate Fund (ICF), which has just been formally established. We expect to spend about 50 per cent of the total amount on adaptation in poor and vulnerable countries, with around 30 per cent for work to reduce carbon emissions and 20 per cent for forestry.
We have three overall priorities for ICF funding, which we will deliver through both bilateral and multilateral channels in a way which maximises its impact and value for money:
- To show that building low carbon climate resilient growth at scale is both feasible and desirable;
- To support adaptation in poor countries and help build an effective international framework on climate change; and,
- To drive innovation, creating new partnerships with the private sector to support low carbon climate resilient growth.
The ICF will also fund the climate element of an Advocacy Fund to support the poorest countries to take part more effectively in international negotiations; this will be formally established later this year.
We hope this funding by the UK will play an important role in helping to mobilise ambitious global action on climate change. As a developing country, Malaysia could potentially be a beneficiary of this fund.
But the UK is the only major donor so far to have made specific financial commitments up to 2015. More is needed to meet the Copenhagen commitment of US$100 billion a year by 2020. We look to other donors, too, from the developed world to make significant and ambitious financial pledges, and we look to businesses to play an important role, since we expect the target to be reached through a mix of public and private finance.
As the Stern Review in 2006 made clear, the clock is ticking. With every passing year, the global cost of effective action to tackle climate change grows greater. The time to act is now.

Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines:From poverty to the top of the world

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OUT on Gertrude Street, Lionel Rose was a presence again.
At the entrance to the Fitzroy gymnasium he helped set up for young Aborigines was a replica of the life-size bronze statue erected in his home town of Warragul. It was accompanied by a condolences book for passers-by to express their appreciation of the former champion, who died on Sunday.
Rose’s legacy is in part the inspiration he gave to young Aborigines to excel, and who, in boxing great Barry Michael’s words, ”Showed just how far an Aboriginal could go.”
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flower-strewn statue at Warragul yesterday. Photo: Pat Scala
But his legacy is also the existence of the Melbourne Aboriginal Youth Sport and Recreation gym, perhaps better known by its former name of Fitzroy All Stars.
”Lionel was very much part of the drive to establish this,” its chief executive, Glenda Thorpe, said yesterday. ”This was very much the passion of Lionel and [its first administrator] Jock Austin.”
Aboriginal activist Robbie Thorpe said Rose understood that young people have energy to burn and that the sport had something to offer. ”It does something for them – they learn discipline and it’s their own people looking after them.”

Forty-three years after the event, the scale of Rose’s achievement in winning a world title overseas remains immense. The shy country kid who grew up in a dirt-floor shack at Jackson’s Track transfixed the nation when he challenged Masahiko ”Fighting” Harada for the world bantamweight title in Tokyo.
With no live television coverage, let alone pay-per-view, entire families with little interest in boxing tuned in to a crackling radio commentary from the other side of the world.
In something akin to Cathy Freeman’s comprehensive triumph at the Sydney Olympics, Rose’s world championship in a sport Australians hardly have made their own seemed almost too good to be true.

Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines: Downs farmer planting the latest in corn technology

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Dennis and Tory Wentworth prepared to plant new refuge in the bag technology from Monsanto. (Photo by WJBC/Carrie Muehling)

McLean County Farmer Dennis Wentworth is among the first of farmers in the Corn Belt planting the newest biotech corn product this spring – DEKALB Genuity SmartStax RIB Complete. It’s Monsanto’s new refuge in the bag technology, which offers simplified planting without the need for a separate, structured refuge because the trait and refuge seed are blended into a one-bag system.
“This new refuge in the bag product will not require the 20% refuge that doesn’t have the newer genetics. So you’re able to plant the entire field with the refuge in the bag and not have to separate out two different varieties in the same field,” said Wentworth. “Typically with the refuge product in the past, you would go ahead and use a rootworm insecticide chemical, and this product will allow us not to use that product. I think it’s another means of being good stewards and using plant technology to allow us not to use man-made products. I think all us farmers are interested in doing a better job of being stewards of not just the soil but of the crop that we produce.”
Wentworth said he started planting a month ago, but was halted by the rain two weeks ago and was just getting back to the fields on Friday. The Wentworths and many other farmers in the area ran long hours this weekend ahead of the rain that is in the forecast for the next few days.

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Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines:Shortage of independent financial advisers looming

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Financial advisers who can give independent guidance to New Zealanders will be in short supply when the new financial services regime comes into full effect on July 1, less than two months away.
And at least one industry player is warning it will only worsen the country’s underinsurance problem.
So far the Financial Markets Authority has on its records 4953 registered financial advisers (RFA) and 454 authorised financial advisers (AFA). It expects the numbers to rise to 5000 and 2000 respectively by the regulation deadline, but that is still far less than the numbers the industry originally estimated.
AFAs and RFAs are considered “independents” compared to qualifying financial entity (QFE) advisers who are “locked” into giving advice on products they market. So far, the 63 QFEs on the register have an estimated 20,000 advisers among them.
Fidelity Life chief executive Milton Jennings said the decrease is not good for the insurance industry which is serviced by both RFAs and QFE advisers, and the retail investment industry which is covered by AFAs.
“We’ve got an underinsurance problem in this country. Less people selling insurance will only make the problem worse.”
He said the lack of independent financial advisers tilts the insurance market to favour banks that “are getting far better in insuring people”.
It will split the market with “RFAs on the high-end side of the advice market and banks in the transactional volume end of the market with the simpler type of products”.
Jennings said the Government was expecting 5000 AFAs but “there’s not even 2000 right now” because many advisers stop at the entry RFA level even if they could get to AFA status because of the cost.
“There’s a lot of compliance they have to go through, a lot of costs and unless they’ve got a strong business then they’d find it difficult to make good money,” Jennings said.
When you compare the 2000 AFAs expected by July and the 1.7 million KiwiSaver members, Jennings said it’s like “having one AFA for every 800 to 1000 people” – which is not in balance.
The FMA’s Mel Hewitson said “5000 was never a target, but an estimate made early in the FAA regime planning stages”.
“Not having available basic information like that is one of the problems we’re facing regulating a previously unregulated industry. In the past we’ve never known how many advisers were offering complex AFA-level advice for clients because there’s been no requirement to register or qualify before,” Hewitson said.
He said it had expected the qualification requirements of the new regime to reduce adviser numbers, “that was the experience in Australia as well”.

Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines:Have a Better Investment Plan Than Bin Laden’s Escape Plan

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Either it does not take much cash to survive long in Pakistan, or Osama Bin Laden has the world’s worst financial planner. When he was found Sunday night, still warm with two SEAL bullets in him, he had an escape plan that seemed like it was concocted by a toddler. Bin Laden had, sewed into his outfit, 500 euros and two phone numbers. Other than that, he was apparently relying on some sort of underground railroad for maniacs.
It is unlikely that you, as an investor, will ever need to prepare for the day when Marines or Navy SEALS bust down your door and start shooting. It would, however, be prudent to have your own investment plan for the future, so you can read Benzinga and react to whatever the markets are doing.
A few things to think about, whether you’re a beginning investor or a seasoned pro, include your asset allocations, diversification, and your buying/selling strategy. Your age, your goals for investing, and your financial and time resources will all factor in to how you want to play the market.
Asset allocation is essentially going to be a product of your time frame (a young investor might have more leeway to go after higher-risk, higher-yield assets), your financial responsibilities, and your ability to absorb risk. Depending on those variables, you’ll want some mix of stocks, bonds and ETFs, among other things. You’ll want to consider staying domestic or going international. Do you take a gamble that China will keep growing? Do you jump into emerging markets?
Diversification is a simple concept of not putting all your money into one fund, one stock, or one market. Spread your investment dollars around, and you’ll spread your risk of losing all your money — either because of natural disaster, market crashes, or some other financial calamity, such as a Madoff-style scam.
The other thing to consider is how and when you will buy and sell your assets. Some investors, particularly those with a lot of time (and/or a Benzinga Pro account) will routinely buy stocks when they dip a little and then sell them at higher points, only to repurchase the stock when it later drops. This timing-the-market strategy is riskier, but offers additional profit margins for clued-in investors. The other strategy is buy-and-hold, where you periodically buy your investments regardless of price. If the price is low, you end up with more shares; if it rises, you have less shares at a higher value. Over time, the two extremes should even out.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Dynamic Wealth Management Initial Public Offering Basics for brand spanking new Investors

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Dreikoenigstrasse, Zurich — (SBWIRE) — 01/28/2011 — Dynamic Wealth Management is a market leader in Financial Services. Here’s a guide to Initial Public Offerings (IPO’s) designed to take the jargon and fear out of the parable that IPO’s are higher risk than ordinary investments.
Taking a privately held company public is completed via an IPO (Initial Public Offering). It wouldn’t be an overstatement to claim that an IPO is likely one of the important events in an organization’s timeline. The corporate issues a selected variety of share certificates at a stated price. Each shareholder then becomes part owner of the corporate, and every share can be purchased or sold at the stock market where the corporate is listed.
It’s an exceptionally complicated process with a maze of regulatory and compliance requirements. However the benefits, when it comes to finance, are only as high. A successful and well-subscribed IPO can instantly turn a small regional company into a global corporate heavyweight.
The largest advantage of an IPO is clearly the large infusion of capital for financing ongoing operations and planned expansion of the business. It improves the corporate’s liquidity position and helps reduce debt. There may be also a large uptick in brand recognition and trust within the company’s services and products.
Firstly, a registration statement is filed with the SEC together with a prospectus for the IPO. This details everything an investor wish to learn about the corporate and its future plans. It truly is where the underwriters come into the image.

Dynamic Wealth Management Zurich, Switzerland: Expert Tips for Retirement Investors

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There are so many options for retirement investment planning that even the most ambitious person can feel daunted. But learning about retirement investment strategies as a young or middle-aged adult can save all kinds of financial worries later. The soundest approach to investing for retirement is to save slowly but persistently, and invest widely with as much information as possible.

The Best Approach to Retirement Investing
Expert Tips for Retirement Investing - Every expert has a different recommendation for the best retirement investment decisions, but some advice is universal.

Figure out how much retirement income will be needed. Retirement investment calculators are available online that can predict how much a given investment will be worth or how much retirement income will be needed to maintain quality of life by retirement.

Start now by opening an investment retirement savings account. Even a small amount, deposited every week or every paycheck, eventually adds up to substantial savings that can be used to fund a comfortable retirement.

Knowledge is power. Take every opportunity to learn about retirement investments, as well as the best investment planning in general, and invest money from the aforementioned retirement account wisely as opportunities appear.

Create a diverse portfolio. Some stocks will go up while others go down. The real estate market might be booming while sales in other areas fall. The best retirement investment planning takes this into account and invests in several different options at once to ensure a solid investment portfolio that will do well, no matter what.

Investment Approach

http://www.dynamic.co.za/About-Us/Investment-Approach.aspxSince its establishment in 1971, Dynamic Wealth has been committed to providing superior investment performance coupled to service excellence. This approach balances on understanding the market and delivering on clients' expectations. Dynamic Wealth has leveraged knowledge and experience into years of sustained growth and a steady expansion of its innovative and flexible products and services.

In harnessing the competencies of a dynamic team of investment professionals, Dynamic Wealth is able to exploit investment opportunities using fundamental research, technical analysis and an in-depth understanding of macro-economic and global market trends. While strong client relationships are backed by fast efficient service and communication, decisions are taken by the Group's skilled and experienced professionals.

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("DundeeWealth") reported total revenue earning fiduciary assets at March 31, 2011 of $84.2 billion. This includes $50.9 billion in assets under management ("AUM"), $7.1 billion in Bank Deposits from Dundee Bank of Canada and $26.2 billion in assets under administration ("AUA").
AUM growth of 4.5% for the month includes total mutual fund net sales of $489 million, which is comprised of long-term mutual fund net sales of $485 million and short-term mutual fund net sales of $4 million.

Can bespoke wealth management be scalable?

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This inherent dilemma is becoming more apparent as businesses face the growing costs and hurdles associated with regulation.
David Lough, chairman of Heartwood Wealth Management, argues that over the past 25 years advances in technology and thought have been applied to investment management, helping to create economies of scale.
Speaking at the CISI Wealth Management Conference, Lough said: ‘What I want to suggest to you is that the story of the past 25 years has been the application of thought and technology and through this there has been scaling into investment management solutions.
‘Most organisations have moved from a world of individually customised portfolios to a range of solutions, strategies, models – call them what you will. They are better researched, better tested and more consistently applied, so we move from a range of dispersed outcomes to much more predictable outcomes for clients who share the same characteristics.’
Making financial planning scalable
Lough anticipates the same dynamics could result in a more repeatable process in relation to financial planning through the use of software applications. ‘What I am suggesting is the story of the next 15 years is going to be the same sort of change in the wealth structuring and financial planning fields. I hope this will soon apply itself to retirement planning,’ he said.
He adds that wealth managers face a challenge when assisting their clients, who are in need of solutions for what could be a 30-year retirement. But he says these solutions need to be consistent and acknowledges that making financial planning more scalable is not without its challenges. First, there is no institutional precedent for personal retirement planning, he says, and second there are more variables, particularly in relation to estate planning.
Jonathan Fry, private wealth director and former Wealth Manager cover star, also anticipates the development of software is likely to enable firms to ‘deliver more planning and need identification’, particularly for younger clients. However, he is more sceptical about the use of software applications for clients with more complex arrangements.
Nonetheless, he agrees the dilemma of achieving scalability is a key challenge for the industry. ‘When it comes to the issue of scalability there is a natural tension between doing something that properly reflects a client’s needs and producing this efficiently and cost effectively,’ Fry said.

Societe Generale Private Banking Strengthens Its Management In Asia

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Societe Generale Private Banking is strengthening its management in Asia in order to support its ambitious expansion strategy in the region, thus confirming its commitment towards one of the most dynamic wealth creating regions in the world.

Previously Chief Executive Officer for South Asia, Olivier Gougeon becomes Chief Executive Officer for Asia Pacific, for Singapore, Hong Kong and China. Patrick Dreyfuss, who retains his functions as Chief Operating Officer for the zone, has been appointed Regional Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Societe Generale Private Banking for Asia Pacific.
In order to further develop the activities of the private bank in Asia Pacific, whilst building on the existing transverse expertise within Societe Generale Group, a strategy committee, made up of 4 members, has been established:
- Alex Fung is appointed Chairman of the Strategy Committee of Societe Generale Private Banking Asia Pacific in addition to his role as Chief Executive Officer of Societe Generale Private Banking (Hong Kong);
- Olivier Gougeon, Regional Chief Executive Officer of Societe Generale Private Banking (Asia Pacific);
- Hsiao-Yun Lee, Chief Executive Officer of Societe Generale Private Banking (China);
- Bruno Lèbre, member of Societe Generale Private Banking’s global executive committee and supervisor of the private bank’s activities in Asia.

Capital Guardian, LLC Adds Norfolk's Rhino Wealth Management

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NORFOLK, Va., April 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Capital Guardian, LLC, announces the addition of Rhino Wealth Management in Norfolk under the direction of President/Senior Portfolio Manager Mark Rienerth. Rienerth has been a financial advisor since 1981, with firms including Wheat First Securities and Merrill Lynch. In 2004, Rienerth founded Rhino Wealth Management as an independent advisor and recently decided to affiliate his firm with Capital Guardian.
Of the new relationship, Rienerth says, "Thus far, Capital Guardian has met and exceeded all of our needs, as well as the needs of our clients. They are very customer-centric and service oriented. The management team is dynamic, forward thinking, energetic and committed to success."
Rienerth believes that Capital Guardian's relationship with Pershing, LLC, the leader in global clearing services, gives them a platform of premier products and services and an exceptional service model from their advisory services team. Rienerth is a predominantly fee-based, discretionary portfolio manager who personally manages his clients' portfolios.
"Capital Guardian is very happy to expand our presence into Norfolk, VA. Mark offers decades of experience and knowledge in the industry, and we are pleased to partner with him," adds Tony Montanari, CIMA®, Director of Business Development.
Rienerth graduated from The College of William and Mary with a Bachelors degree in Business Administration in 1978, where he was a four-year member of the baseball team and team captain in his senior year.
About Capital Guardian, LLC - Capital Guardian, LLC, is a rapidly growing regional investment firm with over 30 offices located strategically throughout the United States. Capital Guardian, LLC, believes in building a strong relationship between the client and the financial advisor. Open architecture is very important to this relationship because Capital Guardian believes that the advisor should have the freedom to focus solely on the financial goals of their clients. More information on Capital Guardian is available at www.capitalguardianllc.com.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Hypo Venture Capital Seizing Opportunities in Tough Economic Times

Here at Hypo Venture Capital we are committed to offering our clients access to the latest and broadest range of financial services and products on the market. We know that choosing the right strategy, the right investment and the right product is no easy task in this day and age! Whether its advice, investments or financial planning we are here to answer all your questions and facilitate all your financial needs.
Many of us have concerns about staying on track in these uncertain economic times. Mounting layoffs, plunging home values and declining stock prices all have a way of generating fear and uncertainty.
"Even though things look bad sometimes, you need to remain focused on opportunities," says Andrew Bradley, HVC’s chief investment officer. "We like to say there's opportunity in every market."
Today's investors face unprecedented challenges

Hypo Venture Capital: Retirement Investing – Expert Tips

There are so many options for retirement investment planning that even the most ambitious person can feel daunted. But learning about retirement investment strategies as a young or middle-aged adult can save all kinds of financial worries later. The soundest approach to investing for retirement is to save slowly but persistently, and invest widely with as much information as possible.

Hypo Venture Capital: How Much Money Is Needed for Retirement?

Most early- and mid-career workers see retirement as being far off in the distance. While retirees spend their days relaxing under swaying palms and contemplating how thankful they are to be out of the rat race for good, the reality is quite different. Today, people are retiring later and finding the need to save more money to live comfortably after retirement. No two ways about it, the longer people wait to retire, the more comfortable their lives will be.

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Hypo Venture Capital is a market leader in Financial Services. Here is a guide to Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) designed to take the jargon and fear out of the myth that IPOs are higher risk than ordinary investments.

Hypo Venture Capital Asset Allocation: A Sound Investment Strategy Part 2

Here at Hypo Venture Capital we are committed to offering our clients access to the latest and broadest range of financial services and products on the market. We know that choosing the right strategy, the right investment and the right product is no easy task in this day and age! Whether its advice, investments or financial planning we are here to answer all your questions and facilitate all your financial needs.

In today's complex financial markets, you have an impressive array of investment vehicles from which to select. Each investment also carries some risks, making it important to choose wisely if you are selecting just one.
The good news is that there's no rule that says you must stick with only one type of investment. In fact, you can potentially lower your investment risk and increase your chances of meeting your investment goals by practicing "asset allocation."

Hypo Venture Capital - The Stock Market – Ways to Make Money Read more about venture capital by Stephen Holmes

Here at Hypo Venture Capital we are committed to offering our clients access to the latest and broadest range offinancial services and products on the market. We know that choosing the right strategy, the right investment and the right product is no easy task in this day and age! Whether its advice, investments or financial planning we are here to answer all your questions and facilitate all your financial needs.

Investing with small amounts of money. Large amounts of money can be made through the stock market, even with small amounts of money. But investing a small amount of money and turning a large profit is not without risk. In fact, the risk is the reason that this is possible. Stock options are a great example of this. The reason such a large return can come from stock options is because they will eventually expire if they are not exercised or sold. This makes it a much riskier investment then just buying a stock outright. But the return on a stock will not be as great as if the investor had invested in the proper stock options. So even with a small amount of money an investor can make it worth their while

Read more about venture capital by Stephen Holmes

Here at Hypo Venture Capital we are committed to offering our clients access to the latest and broadest range offinancial services and products on the market. We know that choosing the right strategy, the right investment and the right product is no easy task in this day and age! Whether its advice, investments or financial planning we are here to answer all your questions and facilitate all your financial needs.

Investing with small amounts of money. Large amounts of money can be made through the stock market, even with small amounts of money. But investing a small amount of money and turning a large profit is not without risk. In fact, the risk is the reason that this is possible. Stock options are a great example of this. The reason such a large return can come from stock options is because they will eventually expire if they are not exercised or sold. This makes it a much riskier investment then just buying a stock outright. But the return on a stock will not be as great as if the investor had invested in the proper stock options. So even with a small amount of money an investor can make it worth their while

Read more about venture capital by Stephen Holmes

Hypo Venture Capital Seizing Opportunities in Tough Economic Times

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Here at Hypo Venture Capital we are committed to offering our clients access to the latest and broadest range of financial services and products on the market. We know that choosing the right strategy, the right investment and the right product is no easy task in this day and age! Whether its advice, investments or financial planning we are here to answer all your questions and facilitate all your financial needs.

Many of us have concerns about staying on track in these uncertain economic times. Mounting layoffs, plunging home values and declining stock prices all have a way of generating fear and uncertainty.
"Even though things look bad sometimes, you need to remain focused on opportunities," says Andrew Bradley, HVC’s chief investment officer. "We like to say there's opportunity in every market."
Today's investors face unprecedented challenges

Hypo Venture Capital Asset Allocation: A Sound Investment Strategy Part 2

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Here at Hypo Venture Capital we are committed to offering our clients access to the latest and broadest range of financial services and products on the market. We know that choosing the right strategy, the right investment and the right product is no easy task in this day and age! Whether its advice, investments or financial planning we are here to answer all your questions and facilitate all your financial needs.

In today's complex financial markets, you have an impressive array of investment vehicles from which to select. Each investment also carries some risks, making it important to choose wisely if you are selecting just one.
The good news is that there's no rule that says you must stick with only one type of investment. In fact, you can potentially lower your investment risk and increase your chances of meeting your investment goals by practicing "asset allocation."

Monday, February 21, 2011

Dynamic Wealth Management Efficient Market Theory

Dynamic Wealth Management: A branch of economic thought known as 'efficient market theory' hypothesizes that the stock market is almost perfectly efficient in the sense that asset values are almost perfectly priced when factoring in all known information. Taking this theory to the extreme would mean that a monkey randomly choosing stocks would do no better or worse on average than a Wall Street guru.

Many people subscribe to this theory. Their main reasoning is that there are so many knowledgeable people that actively invest in stocks (think head fund managers, mutual fund managers, private equity guys, etc.) that all stocks are accurately valued. The only way to make more money in the stock market, or any aasset class for that matter, is to take on more risk. Otherwise, it's futile to attempt to try to pick stocks since you won't find any good deals (other people would have already found them and bid up the stock's price).

Dynamic Wealth Management

Experienced fund managers assess estimates of future returns and risk. Their goal is to achieve the highest possible return through the lowest possible risk exposure. This involves teamwork, because no individual can follow all trends and opportunities in the global environment.

A dynamic and focused management committee makes all the investment decisions. Dynamic Wealth Management follows an open door policy. Clients have direct and personal access to the company's portfolio managers.

Dynamic Wealth Management – About DynamicWManagement

At the Dynamic Wealth Management, we realize that no two clients are the same. Every client has different financial needs, goals, and plans. For this reason, the DWM offers a wide array of investment options to suit every client. We tailor your investment strategy to be as individual as you are.

As a Dynamic Wealth Management client, your portfolio will be structured using the disciplines of asset allocation, risk tolerance, and thorough understanding of your goals and objectives.
We believe in the appropriate allocation of fixed income, equity, international stocks and bonds, hedge funds, and alternative investments.

Dynamic Wealth Management Initial Public Offering Basics For New Investors

Dynamic Wealth Management Efficient Market Theory

Dynamic Wealth Management: A branch of economic thought known as 'efficient market theory' hypothesizes that the stock market is almost perfectly efficient in the sense that asset values are almost perfectly priced when factoring in all known information. Taking this theory to the extreme would mean that a monkey randomly choosing stocks would do no better or worse on average than a Wall Street guru.

About Dynamic Wealth Management

At the Dynamic Wealth Management, we realize that no two clients are the same. Every client has different financial needs, goals, and plans. For this reason, the DWM offers a wide array of investment options to suit every client. We tailor your investment strategy to be as individual as you are.
As a Dynamic Wealth Management client, your portfolio will be structured using the disciplines of asset allocation, risk tolerance, and thorough understanding of your goals and objectives.

Dynamic Wealth Management Facts You Need To Know About IPO Investments

Dynamic Wealth Management is a market leader in Financial Services. Here is a guide to Initial Public Offerings (IPO’s) designed to take the jargon and fear out of the myth that IPO’s are higher risk than ordinary investments.
Are you wondering how you can increase the profits you generate from your market investing approaches? If you are looking for the most profitable forms of investing available today, you should certainly be investigating the possibilities of using initial public offering / IPO investments.
A basic description of an IPO includes the fact that you are purchasing a business that is just entering the open marketplace. The fact that the moment the IPO is released to the public is the first time that anyone has the ability to purchase the company openly, can certainly give you a fairly good idea about where the stock itself resides when it comes to the value of the offering. You can bet, due to the fact that the company is just releasing its stock to the public, it is getting ready for a fairly large upsurge in its value.

Dynamic Wealth Management - Items To Consider When Investing In An IPO: Reducing The Risks

IPOs or Initial Public Offers are means by which a company can raise debt free capital through sharing the ownership and profits. There have been many companies opting for the IPO route over the last two decades. There have also been many big success stories with people making decent profits through these investment tools. However, there are always some items to consider when investing in an IPO that can reduce the risk in this.

Dynamic Wealth Management Investment Plans – How to Choose The Best?

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Here at Dynamic Wealth Management we are committed to offering our clients access to the latest and broadest range of financial services and products on the market. We know that choosing the right strategy, the right investment and the right product is no easy task in this day and age! Whether its advice, investments or financial planning we are here to answer all your questions and facilitate all your financial needs.

Selecting an investment plan is a crucial decision. You would be the sole decision maker in going for an investment plan. Also you would be the only one who would be bearing all the risk associated with the investment. So you need to make a plan wisely. Unless you have enough funds put aside and a secured income, you must never opt for higher risk investment. They can drown you till throat.
Always keep in mind the below mentioned three golden rules of investment:
1) No investment plan is completely secure. There is always certain degree of risk involved in all.
2) Risk and return works here in a parallel way. Higher risks means higher return and lower risk means lower return but more safety.
3) Never ever invest in any plan blindly without understanding the complete details of the plan.

Dynamic Wealth Management Initial Public Offering Basics For New Investors January 24, 2011

Taking a privately held company public is done via an IPO (Initial Public Offering). It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that an IPO is one of the important events in a company’s timeline. The company issues a specific number of share certificates at a stated price. Each shareholder then becomes part owner of the company, and each share can be bought or sold on the stock market where the company is listed.
It is an extremely complicated process with a maze of regulatory and compliance requirements. But the benefits, in terms of finance, are just as high. A successful and well-subscribed IPO can instantly turn a small regional company into an international corporate heavyweight.
The biggest benefit of an IPO is obviously the massive infusion of capital for financing ongoing operations and planned expansion of the business. It improves the company’s liquidity position and helps reduce debt. There is also a big uptick in brand recognition and trust in the company’s products and services.