Gift Registry Has New Outlet
MyRegistry.com has been created to enable philanthropic donors to make contributions to specific not-for-profit organizations and to enable charitable entities to make specific requests for needed donations.
Advances in technology have made MyRegistry.com add a service making it possible to help large not-for-profit organizations and those wishing to make donations connect more easily and fill each other's needs more conveniently.
MyRegistry.com is a traditional universal gift registry site that allows users to aggregate products and services from any site or from a brick-and-mortar retailer into one concise list. The new technology platform helps promote philanthropic contributions by allowing users to donate products and money to not-for-profit organizations that set up individual pages on the site.
Users also can create registries for particular causes. For example, a donation site was set up for the Hurricane Katrina Relief Registry, in which a church helped set up the site to gather needed products for rebuilding in the Louisiana/Mississippi area. The site created a list to enable donors to purchase and send items directly to relief agencies. The list enabled donors to see specifically where their contributions were going.
The site can also enable those setting up registries for traditional gift-giving occasions, such as weddings and birthdays, to use MyRegistry.com's cash gift option to enable guests to donate cash gifts to the recipient's favorite charities.
Additional information can be found at www.myregistry.com/fundraising/aspx.
Precidian Launches Japanese Fund
Precidian Funds LLC is launching the first U.S. exchange-traded fund based on the Nikkei 225, a widely used index of Japanese equities.
The new fund, the MAXIS Nikkei 225 Index Fund, is designed to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of publicly traded securities in the Japanese market as measured by the Nikkei 225 Index.
NPH Chooses Media Compliance Firm
National Planning Holdings Inc., an independent broker-dealer network, has contracted with Erado to provide social media compliance services as part of its rollout of social media capabilities for more than 3,500 representatives this fall.
Erado's technology suite will allow representatives to use LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter to communicate with clients and establish business development programs and meet compliance requirements.
TheChartlab.com Provides Technical Research
TheChartlab.com LLC is being created by Greg Troccoli to provide technical analysis for institutional and individual investors.
The research at the site is designed to be simple and actionable and will include a variety of markets including the S&P Index, international equity and fixed-income markets, 12 sector ETFs and heavily traded large-cap stocks.
Troccoli has 23 years of experience in the business and was previously chief technical analyst at Prudential.