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All-Weather Chuck Akre Unloads First Quarter

5/17/2013, 6:28 pm from GuruFocus in Investing

Akre Capital Managements's investing Guru Chuck Akre wears at least three hats: CEO, chief investment officer and managing member. Employing an "all-weather" equity strategy, Akre uses a classic value approach in selecting companies for his portfolio, buying companies with high returns on capital and pricing... Read >>

Einhorn Increases AAPL and Decreases Nine

5/17/2013, 6:27 pm from GuruFocus in Investing

David Einhorn is president of Greenlight Capital (a value-oriented investment advisor). GuruFocus notes in his investment philosophy that Einhorn believes an investment approach emphasizing intrinsic value will achieve consistent absolute investment returns and safeguard capital regardless of market... Read >>

Ameriprise Hikes Dividend As Industry Recovers

5/17/2013, 6:12 pm from Investor's Business Daily in Personal Finance, Investing Ideas

Financial services companyAmeriprise Financial ( AMP ), now trading at record highs, has just raised its quarterly dividend. The new dividend, which was declared in April and went into effect last week, is 52 cents a share, up from 45 cents. It was also the sixth time Ameriprise has raised the... Read >>

Four Steps For Boosting Your 401(k) Account Balance

5/17/2013, 5:31 pm from Investor's Business Daily in Investing, Mutual Funds

Members of 401(k) plans nationwide are feeling richer. The average account balance in plans run by Fidelity Investments hit $77,300 in the fourth quarter. That was an all-time high since Fidelity -- the largest operator of 401(k)s -- began to track this data in 2007. Workers ages 60 to 64 averaged $134,600.... Read >>

CFO at Duke Realty Resigns, Joins JLL - Analyst Blog

5/17/2013, 5:28 pm from Zacks.com in Investing, Business, Stocks

The office and industrial real estate investment trust (REIT) - Duke Realty Corporation ( DRE ) - announced the decision of its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Christie B. Kelly to quit her post, with effect from May 17, 2013. Consequently, the company declared Mark A. Denien as her replacement. Kelly is... Read >>

Pitney to Divest Management Biz - Analyst Blog

5/17/2013, 5:27 pm from Zacks.com in Investing, Business, Stocks

Recently Pitney Bowes Inc. ( PBI ) announced its plan to sell the management services business wing in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland to Swiss Post Solutions. Swiss Post Solutions is a division of Swiss Post that offers a comprehensive range of business process management services. Pitney's two... Read >>

Daniel Loeb Adds 3 New Buys to Top 10

5/17/2013, 5:26 pm from GuruFocus in Investing

Daniel Loeb is an activist investor who has recently suggested a few ideas to top holding Sony ( SNE ), via a less strongly worded letter to top management than usual. He could be out to replicate his success with Yahoo ( YHOO ), a sleepy company he shook up and then watched rise 75% in stock price... Read >>

Aspen Aerogels withdraws $115 million IPO

5/17/2013, 5:01 pm from Renaissance Capital in News Headlines, IPOs

Aspen Aerogels, which manufactures aerogel insulation principally used by petrochemical and power generation facilities, withdrew its plans for an initial public offering on Friday. The Northborough, MA-based company was founded in 2001, and initially filed for a $115 million IPO in June 2011. Goldman Sachs and... Read >>

Strange Business: Communists Protest Outside Barbie's Dreamhouse

5/17/2013, 4:53 pm from Minyanville in Investing, Stocks

Storming the Pink Palace A topless protester with the words "Life in plastic is not fantastic" written across her chest greeted families visiting the Barbie Dreamhouse attraction for its opening in Berlin yesterday. She also held a Barbie doll tied to burning crucifix. The woman was part of a faction of the... Read >>

The Top 5 Spookiest Technologies

5/17/2013, 4:46 pm from Minyanville in Investing, Technology

While visionaries like the CEO of Google ( GOOG ) give speeches about the tremendous opportunities that technology has in store for us, let us not forget about the innovations that might change our lives in not so rosy ways -- and innovations that may even pose significant threats. Here's a brief... Read >>