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Platts to Announce 2008 Top 250 Global Energy Companies  -  04 Aug 2008
MarketWatchEnergy companies are grouped according to their Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS(R)) code. The top performers will be announced at the third

Most, but not all, savings are insured  -  04 Aug 2008
The Gazette (Montreal),So, if you have several chequing and savings accounts and maybe GICs in one bank, you will get back only up to $100000. Anything over that limit is not

MSCI Barra Announces the List of Constituents Impacted by the GICS ...  -  Jul 31, 2008
MarketWatchThe GICS structure will be enhanced to reflect the evolving nature of the global equity markets. In particular, one Industry - Professional Services - and

Safe, secure GICs have downsides  -  Jul 29, 2008
Financial Post,Guaranteed Investment Certificates, or GICs as they are commonly known, are extremely popular savings vehicles. They are the classic safe investments that

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes to US Indices  -  Jul 30, 2008
MarketWatchHeadquartered in Norwalk, CT, the company will be added to the S&P MidCap 400 GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) Internet Retail Sub-Industry

National Bank Financial to distribute Pacific & Western Bank GICs  -  Jul 23, 2008
Canada NewsWire (press release),...(TSX:PWC) today announced that National Bank Financial has commenced distributing the GICs of PWC's wholly owned subsidiary, Pacific & Western Bank of

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes to US Indices  -  Jul 24, 2008
FOXBusinessHeadquartered in El Segundo, CA, the company will be added to the S&P 500 GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) Health Care Services Sub-Industry

MBIA, Ambac and GICs: The Other View  -  Jul 10, 2008
Seeking Alpha,One hedge fund manager also emailed me with the same possibility – that the GICs issued by MBIA (and MBIA) will impact parent company liquidity through

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes to US Indices  -  Jul 17, 2008
FOXBusinessHeadquartered in St. Louis, MO, the company will be added to the S&P MidCap 400 GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) Coal & Consumable Fuels

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes to US Indices  -  Jul 9, 2008
MarketWatchHeadquartered in Bala Cynwyd, PA, the company will be added to the S&P MidCap 400 GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) Property & Casualty

Dealers in GIC Probe Subpoenaed  -  Jul 29, 2008
Bond Buyer (subscription),The requests also cover forward purchase or forward delivery agreements, unsecured or uncollateralized GICs, repurchase agreements or collateralized GICs,

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes to US Indices  -  Jul 7, 2008
FOXBusinessHeadquartered in Houston, TX, the company will be added to the S&P MidCap 400 GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) Oil & Gas Equipment & Services

Priorities change as retirement looms  -  Jul 31, 2008
BCLocalNews,While traditional debt investments — government bonds or bank GICs — continue to provide a measure of safety and security to a well-balanced retirement

Ambac surges after collateral-posting disclosure  -  Jul 8, 2008
MarketWatchGuaranteed investment contracts, or GICs, provide institutions a certain rate of return on specific amounts of money. Providers promise to pay an agreed

Treatment Of The Merger Of Gaz De France And Suez In The S&P ...  -  Jul 14, 2008
Exchange News Direct,The company will be added to the S&P Europe 350 GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) Multi-Utilities sub-industry. Suez Environnement SA (France,

Share And IWF Change For Lafarge And Share Change For Wolters ...  -  Jul 23, 2008
Exchange News Direct,Lafarge (France, SEDOL: 4502706, GICS: Materials, GICS Code: 15102010), a member of the S&P Europe 350, S&P Euro Plus and S&P Euro indices,

Fixed-income investments made simple  -  Jul 18, 2008
Vancouver Sun,The return potential on corporate bonds generally exceeds government bonds and GICs, but the risk element increases. Another common form of fixed income

GIC's are not a sure bet for return on investment  -  Jul 14, 2008
Metro Canada - Toronto,Many people seem to be looking at GICs (Guaranteed Investment Certificates) or Government Savings Bonds as an option. Both provide safety of principal and a

Standard & Poor's And MSCI Barra Announces Revisions To The Global ...  -  Jul 10, 2008
Exchange News Direct,The review is intended to ensure that the GICS structure continues to appropriately represent the global equity markets and, thereby, enables asset owners,

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P ...  -  Jul 9, 2008
Exchange News Direct,Akzo Nobel NV (Netherlands, SEDOL: 5458314, GICS: Materials, GICS Code: 15101020), a member of the S&P Europe 350, S&P Euro Plus and S&P Euro indices,

MSCI Barra adds to thematics with agriculture and food chain indexes  -  Jul 22, 2008
Structured Products,The indexes, part of the thematic and strategy indexes family, are constructed by aggregating selected Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS)

ET Solar Group names Jeff Lu Chief Technology Officer - Quick Facts  -  Jul 20, 2008
RTT News,Prior to joining, Lu worked at Daystar Technologies as Senior Director of Product Development, focusing on development of GICS solar cells and modules for 3

Rate This Article  -  Jul 14, 2008
Financial Express,Finance minister Palaniappan Chidambaram has pulled up the four state-owned general insurance companies (GICs), which have rapidly lost marketshare to their

Dividend Growth Stocks: A Salve for the Bear's Bite  -  Jul 15, 2008
Seeking Alpha,First, note that the stocks come from 8 of the 10 GICS economic sectors and vary across the market cap spectrum - one can use these stocks as part of a

GIC impacts CDO  -  Jul 11, 2008
Structured Credit Investor (subscription),The watch placement is being interpreted by analysts as a ratings issue rather than an economic problem, as the assets underpinning GICs are mainly

StarMine awards rank analysts against their peers based on ...  -  Aug 2, 2008
South China Morning Post (subscription),In some instances in Hong Kong and China, the GICS has resulted in industries that are not large enough for ranking purposes. When this has been the case,

Standard & Poor's Announces Changes to US Indices  -  Jul 10, 2008
MarketWatchHeadquartered in Purchase, NY, the company will be added to the S&P 500 GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) Data Processing & Outsourced Services

It's complex, but financial institutions have insurance  -  Aug 1, 2008
Cherry Hill Courier Post,Typically, a state guaranty association won't cover guaranteed investment contracts, or GICs, which are common features in 401(k) savings plans.

States jointly probing muni derivatives bids  -  Jul 29, 2008
ReutersAuthorities were especially concerned that pricing had been for guaranteed investment contracts, or GICs, agreements typically offered by insurance

Form 4 Oracle: Boston, MA -- Form4Oracle: Insider Trading Report ...  -  Aug 1, 2008
Insurance News Net (press release),GICs and FAs provide users with guaranteed rates of interest on amounts invested with the company. The company was founded in 1986 as EXEL Limited and

Los Angeles sues Wall St banks, bond insurers  -  Jul 24, 2008
Forbes,Department's Antitrust Division, the Internal Revenue Service and the Securities and Exchange Commission that initially focused on GICs for municipal bonds.

What's in our closet?  -  Jul 30, 2008
Sympatico MSN Finance,It's a mix of money market funds (20%), laddered GICs (30%), short-term bond funds (30%), and universe bond funds (20%). If you applied this formula using a

ET Solar Group Strengthens Management Team with the Appointment of ...  -  Jul 20, 2008
MarketWatchImmediately before joining ET Solar, he worked at Daystar Technologies as the Senior Director of Product Development, focusing on the development of GICS

Fluctuations in the oil prices are ripe for investment opportunity  -  Jul 29, 2008
Metro Canda - Edmonton,For those investors that are too nervous and would rather park their money in savings accounts or GICs, you will be sorry that you did!

CA Bancorp Canadian Realty Finance Corporation (TSX: RF.PR.A ...  -  Jul 17, 2008
FOXBusiness...income investors seeking a higher after-tax yield relative to traditional Government of Canada bonds and guaranteed investment certificates ("GICs").

Outlook for Chinese and Hong Kong ADRs  -  Jul 28, 2008
Seeking Alpha,The best performing GICS sectors for the ADRs were consumer discretionary, health care and IT, which all lost 15% ytd in market weighted terms.

Covering Covered Bonds  -  Jul 29, 2008
istockAnalyst.com,Are banks going to buy GICs from insurers? BICs from other banks? I don’t know. Maybe I am misundstanding that part. My conclusion, after all that,

Royal Bank of Canada May Have C$1.5 Billion Writedown (Update2)  -  Jul 9, 2008
BloombergAn eroding value of investments in other debt securities tied to US subprime mortgages, auction-rate securities, municipal GICs, corporate loans and

Liberty All-Star(R) Growth Fund, Inc. June 2008 Monthly Update  -  Jul 8, 2008
CNNMoney.comDick's Sporting Goods, Inc. * Based on Standard & Poor's and MSCI Barra Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). The Liberty All-Star Growth Fund,

Manulife Investor Sentiment Index rises slightly as investors adjust  -  Jul 23, 2008
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse),Fixed income investments (including GICs and annuities) climbed to second place among most popular categories this quarter, rising four points from March.

Piemonte Named Director Of Golden Griffin Fund  -  Jul 22, 2008
Canisius College,...the portfolio are a mix of growth and value-type companies, and cover most of the major sectors of the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).

State Street Global Advisors Launches New International Sector ETFs  -  Jul 22, 2008
Business Wire (press release),...include only non-US holdings and utilize the widely recognized Global Industry Classification Standard, or GICS as it is more commonly known.

Bear market means it's time to invest  -  Jul 21, 2008
Leader Post,The sole motivation for selling all equities is to get out of the equity market and seek shelter in safe investments such as term deposits, GICs,

Stocks complying with Islamic law perform better  -  Jul 20, 2008
Emirates Business 24/7,S&P's Global Benchmark Shariah Index Series covers 52 developed and emerging markets as well as ten GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) sectors.

Vote for your favourite nominees  -  Jul 18, 2008
Winnipeg Free Press,...change your investments within any of these plans without making a taxable withdrawal, and your investment options are wide open, from stocks to GICs.

Schuldscheine debut  -  Jul 16, 2008
Structured Credit Investor (subscription),The watch placement is being interpreted by analysts as a ratings issue rather than an economic problem, as the assets underpinning GICs are mainly

Preferred share woes  -  Jul 14, 2008
Sympatico MSN Finance,I told him at the time that safety was my main concern and he said these were the next safest thing to GICs. These preferred shares have come down quite a

How You Can Shop For A 529 Savings Account  -  Jul 7, 2008
Investor's Business Daily (subscription)ETFs and guaranteed investment contracts (GICs)," Hurley said. You might end up holding individual stocks in a separately managed account.

Loan refi concerns emerge  -  Jul 23, 2008
Structured Credit Investor (subscription),...the sale of guaranteed investment contracts (GICs) - that could be materially impacted by downgrades to low investment grade by either Moody's or S&P.

2008-07-16 09:27:16 - Global Real Estate - a new market research ...  -  Jul 16, 2008
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),While REITs are included in the GICS definition for this industry, the method used in valuing REITs, in terms of market capitalisation, is not compatible




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