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Aravo today announced that it has closed a $27 million Series D financing round with Cisco as a new strategic investor and the largest participant in the round.

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Communications Strategy Group walks a mile in some new shoes. Example -- a new poll conducted for Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation showing that "64 percent of voters said they would approve proposals that would establish state-licensed marijuana dispensaries to cultivate and provide marijuana to patients with doctors' recommendations." ...

Americans are willing to postpone retirement - and even work during it, but they don't want to spend less after they have retired, according to a survey conducted by Charles Schwab & Co that was released today.

NEW YORK: US stocks rebounded on Monday after news that Dubai's flagship conglomerate Dubai World will restructure 26 billion dollars in debt of some of its companies, easing default fears.

Despite the choppy economy, Robert Klosterman, the president and chief executive of White Oaks Wealth Advisors Inc., in August took more than 100 of his top clients on a three-hour boat cruise of Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota.

Charles Schwab reported on Nov. 13 that client assets totaled $1.35 trillion at the end of October, a 16% increase from one year earlier.

Fidelity Investments will extend its enhanced services model to 150 a oepremium-tiera registered investment advisers clients, Investment News reports.

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Six out of 10 financial advisors at major firms are interested in becoming independent; 80% believe their clients would follow them, the survey found.

For six consecutive months, investors have shifted money into safer asset classes such as fixed income.

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European shares rose Monday, with miners advancing as dollar weakness boosted metals futures, while deals and broker upgrades lent a hand elsewhere.

Fidelity Investments, in a move to attract and retain registered investment advisers and independent-broker-dealer clients, has introduced a program it says offers advisers access to market analysis and industry insights.

The Charles Schwab Corp. brought in $8.6 billion in net new assets last month, a 48% increase over September, according to a monthly market report the company released today.

A nascent recovery in San Francisco's leasing market could be swamped by a wave of empty office space hitting the market in the next two years.

Plug "Roth IRA conversion" into a search engine, and it will spit out online calculators and stories seeking to explain whether the move is worthwhile.

Both IBKR and OXPS are major players in the once-again booming options markets, as well as in equities, futures and FOREX.

Last week's decision by The Charles Schwab Corp. to offer its own ETFs commission-free could result in less product education for financial advisers and investors, say rival ETF providers.

The first Charles Schwab -branded exchange-traded funds launch tomorrow, Nov. 3, and Schwab is offering free, uncapped trading to its customers who buy in online - essentially creating a platform that enables retail investors to dollar cost average with ETFs.