The News Review:
- PRACTICE MANAGEMENT: How Safe Are Large Investment Accounts?
- Hands on With Honda’s Motion Devices
- 200 Globe managers won’t get ’09 bonuses
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT: How Safe Are Large Investment Accounts?
CNNMoney.com
There was no specific monetary limit to the Capco protection whichended in mid-February due to uncertainties related to claims involving Lehman’sbankruptcy filing. Lehman was a Capco member. Barclays Wealth acquired parts of Lehman’s wealthmanagement business in the Americas last year. It extended the additionalcoverage its broker-dealer Barclays Capital Inc. has through Lloyd’s to thenewly acquired customer accounts. A Barclays Wealth representative declined todisclose the coverage amount but said it’s appropriate based on client assets. Each Capco participant made its own decision about whether and how muchaccount protection to offer above SIPC’s $500000 limit and were responsiblefor notifying customers.
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Hands on With Honda’s Motion Devices
PC World
Granted the motion assistance devices that Honda showed off in New York Wednesday were prototypes that may not be available commercially for years. And anyone hoping for Terminator-like abilities was likely a bit underwhelmed. But the Stride Management Assist and the Bodyweight Support Assist devices shown for the first time outside of Japan this week offer a kinesthetic experience that tantalizingly suggests how physical human-machine interaction could play out. In an event room in the new-age ambience of the W Times Square hotel in midtown Manhattan a group of top engineers from Honda’s R&D Co. helped journalists try on the devices. The team met with the media before heading out to the 2009 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) World Congress at Detroit’s Cobo Center starting Monday. Jun Ashihara a chief engineer at the R&D group helped me strap the Stride Management Assist a 5.
200 Globe managers won’t get ’09 bonuses
Boston Globe
Steven Ainsley as part of efforts to cut costs at the money-losing newspaper. In addition the newspaper said it will rescind the 10 extra days off it had initially granted to nonunion management in exchange for a 5 percent pay cut. The pay cut will remain in place through December. The reductions come as the Globe and its owner the.