Investment

Redline Trading Solutions Strengthens Management Team with New VP of...

Redline Trading Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of ultra-low latency trading solutions, announced the appointment of Mark R. LaForest as its Vice President of Engineering. As a veteran product development executive, Mr. LaForest brings extensive experience in managing product development organizations focused on delivering best in class solutions for high-performance computing applications.

Prior to joining Redline, Mr. LaForest held key engineering and senior-level positions at T...

Blue Prairie Group Launches Stable Value Database

Blue Prairie Group (BPG), a leading fee-based retirement and investment consulting firm based in Chicago, just released its Q3 2011 stable value database findings. The executive summary will be refreshed each quarter and is available at no cost on Blue Prairie Group’s website - http://www.blueprairiegroup.com.

Q3 2011 BPG Stable Value Database Key Findings
1-year investment performance ranged from 1.3 to 4.5 percent. Market-to-book ratios generally increased due to falling interest rates, which was a stronger contributor to the ratio than a weaker corporate sector, which depressed bond prices. Durations ranged from 1.6 to 4.4 years, and have shortened during the year. Ninety percent of the co-mingled funds in the database have durations of between 2 and 3 years.

Jamaican Novel ‘The Runnings’ Now Available Digitally

D. N. Wong Ken’s well received novel The Runnings is now available for purchase digitally via the Amazon Kindle store thanks to Random Media, a Pembroke Pines based company.

The novel features a young man caught in the middle of a “murderous political conflict” that numerous reviewers felt is convincing and filled with action. Readers will enter a world filled with politics and intrigue set in what some consider paradise.

“Jamaican authors should be competing worldwide in every...

Trading Iron Condors in 2012 with Dan Sheridan and TheOptionClub.com

On January 10, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. (Central Time), TheOptionClub.com will be hosting a live web-cast presentation to explore how the iron condor options strategy might be used successfully in the coming year. This highly popular strategy has the potential of providing a trader with consistent month-on-month profits but also carries the possibility of a significant loss in any given month. In this presentation that risk, and that profit potential, will be identified and we will then discuss ho...

Mortgage Rates On The Rise After Reaching Record Lows, Announces...

Mortgage rate research website, BurlingtonMortgage.biz announced that mortgage rates posted on the site are up from the historical low points reached in previous weeks. On Friday, December 30th, 2011, 30 year fixed mortgage rates as low as 3.75% were displayed in the rate tables (APR: 3.864%, Points: 1, Lender: AuroraBank.) This is an increase over one week previous when 30 year rates hit a record low just before the Christmas holiday.