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ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ever since the passage of EGTRRA in 2001, estate planners have had to deal with the uncertainty of a changing estate tax. The repeal of the estate tax in 2010 and its reintroduction in 2011 (with a smaller exemption and higher rates) had the effect of discouraging planners and their clients from engaging in long-term planning. On December 29 and again on January 6, leading estate tax authority Alan Gassman will facilitate a new BNA...

JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- In terms of paragraph 3.63 of the Listings Requirements of the JSE Limited, we hereby provide the following information regarding the vesting of conditional share awards granted by Sappi to the undermentioned directors of the Company and its major subsidiary companies: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090826/NE66332LOGO ) 31 May 2007 and 15 December 2008 conditional share awards vesting Vesting of grants...

CALGARY, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ - At the special meeting of Trimac Income Fund (the "Fund") held today, unitholders and holders of exchangeable security voting rights of the Fund overwhelmingly approved the conversion of the Fund to a corporation pursuant to an arrangement under the Business Corporations Act (Alberta). Securityholders voted 99.9% in favour of the conversion.  The arrangement remains subject to final approval by the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta at a hearing...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Bequestworthy.com was recently launched as a discreet and confidential way to anonymously list individuals or organizations interested in becoming a beneficiary to other people's wills and estate plans. The website address is www.Bequestworthy.com. The site is also targeted to those individuals who may have an estate to leave behind. In many cases, benefactors have no living or in-need friends or relatives or particular charitable causes that...

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Orexigen® Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OREX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of obesity, today announced that on October 26, 2010 the Compensation Committee of the Company's Board of Directors approved the grant of an inducement stock option to purchase 9,000 shares of common stock to a new employee. The stock option has an exercise price per share equal to $5.79, the fair market value on the grant date. The stock option vests over...

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Forte, LLC, today announced the availability of Probate Finder OnDemand(TM), a web-based probate database and estate recovery application that significantly improves deceased debt collections through probate. Probate Finder OnDemand provides access to a proprietary database of more than three million probated estate records, powerful matching algorithms that accurately match deceased accounts to estate records and automated workflows that simplify claim...

MONTREAL, July 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Boralex Power Income Fund (the "Fund") announced today that, following receipt of the favourable recommendation of a Special Committee of independent trustees, the Board of Trustees of Boralex Power Trust (the "Board"), on behalf of the Fund trustee, has unanimously determined (with non-independent trustees abstaining) that the improved offer announced by Boralex Inc. ("Boralex") on July 12, 2010 to acquire all the issued and outstanding trust...

EU citizens should be able to determine for themselves under which national law they want to bequeath their estateThe holiday home on the Costa del Sol, the bank account in London, the local assets of foreign citizens resident in Germany - which rules apply to the bequeathing of such assets? Not an easy question, because the freedom to stipulate how one's assets are to be disposed of in one's last will and testament is subject to different limitations in each country of the EU. There is not...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. ("HTA"), a self-managed, non-traded, real estate investment trust, declared cash distributions for the months of July, August, and September 2010. These distributions will be calculated based on the stockholders of record each day during such month and will equal a 7.25% annualized rate based on a share price of $10.00. The payment date for the daily distributions for the period...

FAIRFAX, Va., June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Coach John Wooden recently died at age 99, having lived a full and rich life. Without question, he was the most successful college basketball coach ever, with 10 NCAA championships between 1964 and 1975. As Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski said, "You can have a pretty good argument about who is the second-greatest college coach of all time. There's absolutely no argument about who is the greatest." Arguably, Wooden is the greatest coach of any team sport,...