Fund Fees Expected to Tumble $38 Billion by 2012 (Financial Planning.com)
Fees on actively managed mutual funds in the U.S. could fall as much as 26%, or $38 billion, by 2012 due to investors' renewed preference for fixed income and passive investments, Bloomberg reports, citing a report from Boston Consulting Group.
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Naples council considers park for former Fun Time site (Naples Daily News)
Fun Time Early Childhood Academy's property could soon be a park. Naples City Council on Monday gave city staff the go-ahead to pursue a grant that would transform the property on Fifth Avenue North into a passive park.
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Cohen & Steers Announces 2008 Year-End Distribution Information for Open-End Funds (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Cohen & Steers announced today that it does not expect its open-end funds to make capital gain distributions for 2008, and projects that the following funds will make year-end ordinary income distributions on December 19, 2008 to shareholders of record as of December 18, 2008, with an ex-dividend date of December 19, 2008:
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Sumner Redstone dumps Midway Games (Los Angeles Times)
The media mogul sells his majority stake in the failing video game maker for a pittance after pouring in cash. Sumner Redstone and his holding companies have sold their shares in Midway Games Inc. for less than a penny each, capping the media mogul's aggressive investment in the troubled video game maker that ended up costing him hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Obama, the billion-dollar man (The Politico)
He'll come close to, or capture, the title of the first $1B candidate. See also: Picking up the tab
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