CSBJ Daily

Nearly 13 percent of registered financial advisers are losing at least a day of production each week because of compliance issues and paperwork.
The 2007 Financial Advisor Compliance and Legal Concerns study conducted by Vestment Advisors Inc. of Minneapolis revealed that 39 percent of respondents are concerned about the amount of […]

Total nonfarm employment increased in 38 states and the District of Columbia during November.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that compared to November 2006, nonfarm employment decreased in 10 states and was unchanged in two. Employment increased everywhere except in Ohio, minus 0.2 percent, and Michigan, minus 1.8 percent.
The biggest year-over-year […]

U.S. Bank is expanding its “PowerBank” customer service program to Colorado.
The initiatives was launched last year in St. Louis and Portland, Ore.
The Minneapolis-based bank said it had hired about 100 new Colorado employees as part of the initiative, and is expected to hire about 150 more by the end of the year, mostly in […]

Depression hinders HIV treatment protocols, but effective medication reverses that outcome.
Kaiser Permanente published the information from the largest study of its kind in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
It looked at 3,359 HIV-infected patients across the nation to measure the effects of depression – with and without selective anti-depression medication – on patient use […]