Oilers should consider AHL’s Jon Cooper for coaching job
Posted: June 14, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Jon Cooper used to stand before the bench as a lawyer, now he stands behind one.
And if he used to defend people, nobody has to defend his record as a hockey coach.
Everywhere he coaches, he wins. Midget AAA in Michigan, junior in two different leagues, in the pros with the Norfolk Admirals in the American Hockey League. Hes a rising star.
Would the Edmonton Oilers ever hire Cooper? Who knows?
He grew up in Prince George, went to school in the U.S. on a lacrosse scholarship, worked on Wall Street, then got his law degree and opened his own practice, before hockey took over his life and he decided to do it full-time about nine years ago.
At the least, the Oilers should be interviewing the young bright coach.
The Oilers are keeping their coach search ultra secret, although one of the leading candidates, Brent Sutter, has not had an interview with Oilers since working the bench for Canada at the world championship in May. Oilers team president Kevin Lowe was Canadas general manager.
Oilers associate coach Ralph Krueger, who could very well be the front-runner because he knows the team and the players, is still waiting for a decision, too.
As for Cooper, his team just won the AHL championship in Norfolk, Va., 28 wins in a row in league play from Super Bowl Sunday on, and they finished it off with 10 straight wins in the playoffs, winning 43 of their last 46 games. He hasnt been told that another team wants to talk to him, but, while he loves working for the Tampa Bar Lightning and is grateful for the opportunity to coach their farm club, surely an NHL feeler will come. If not the Oilers, then the Washington Capitals, also looking for a head coach.
My name is hot right now because of what weve done and how we did it, but I havent formally been contacted by anybody, Cooper said.
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Partnership With LabCorp Makes WellnessFX Available at 300+ Locations Throughout California, Oregon and Washington
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WellnessFX Launch Makes Optimizing Health & Wellness Simple, Accessible, and Manageable
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Jun 14, 2012) - WellnessFX, a simple and accessible online service that allows people to understand and improve their health, has partnered with LabCorp, a leading provider of medical lab tests and services, expanding WellnessFX service to more than 300 LabCorp locations across California, Oregon, and Washington. This partnership represents the first phase in making the WellnessFX health diagnostic and consulting service available nationwide, by opening up access for WellnessFX customers to get blood work done at any LabCorp location.
WellnessFX Baseline gives members access to a secure WellnessFX personal health dashboard, populated with advanced biometric data (collected from a blood test), and a personal consultation from a board-certified physician. Members can add consult time for more in-depth recommendations from WellnessFX's community of certified health providers including nutritionists, pharmacists, sports practitioners, and functional medicine practitioners. WellnessFX Baseline starts at $199.
"WellnessFX was created to provide convenient, interactive, and individualized service focused on optimizing wellness rather than treating sickness," said Jim Kean, co-founder, WellnessFX. "WellnessFX is for anyone who wants to take charge of their health on their own terms. We deliver access to more than twice the predictive biomarker diagnostics and physician consultations as the average annual physical, and we provide action plans for our customers to proactively improve themselves, in ways that work for them."
"We're seeing increased demand for a more personalized approach to health and wellness. Building on the success of our Baseline launch in San Francisco, our partnership with LabCorp ensures we can offer accessibility to WellnessFX services everywhere," said Brent Vaughan, COO, WellnessFX. "The LabCorp network of patient service centers allows us dramatically expand our reach to provide quick, personalized and high-quality advanced care on our own terms, in a way that fits anyone's personal scheduling preferences and challenges."
WellnessFX boasts a collection of top-tier talent advising the company, and an influential set of enthusiasts and evangelists have been instrumental to the growth and adoption of the service at an early stage. Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Body, is an advisor and helped to launch WellnessFX Baseline via a campaign to win "Time with Tim." Kelly Starrett of Mobility WOD and an influential personality in the CrossFit community, is an early adopter of WellnessFX as well. A complete list of executives and advisory board members can be found at http://www.wellnessfx.com/about.
WellnessFX plans to continue its expansion across the US in the coming months, and is already seeing demand internationally in the UK, Canada, Australia, and Thailand. WellnessFX has already seen increased interest in the commercial fitness and employer channels. For more information, please visit http://www.wellnessfx.com.
About WellnessFX Headquartered in San Francisco, California, WellnessFX is at the forefront of the consumer health revolution. WellnessFX meets the demand for a straightforward, accessible way to manage and understand one's own health. WellnessFX provides easy access to health experts to help its users create personalized wellness roadmaps based on rich, personalized visualizations of leading health diagnostic results. Wellness FX aggregates the underlying biomarkers of the primary detractors of wellness, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and obesity.
3 Ways to Take Control of Your Retirement
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England's blustery Dorset coast seems an unlikely setting for retirement planning lessons, but actually it's perfect. That's where this summer's Olympic sailboat races will take place, and viewers new to sailing will learn a surprising fact: You can sail into the wind. You need to tack in ways that aren't necessary when the wind is behind you, but do it right and you'll move bracingly fast.
That's retirement planning today. You're feeling virtually all the financial winds right in your face. Strapped governments at every level will be giving you fewer services and taking more from you in taxes and fees. Inflation may be creeping up. Employers will continue the long-term trend of whittling retirement security by freezing or abolishing the few remaining defined-benefit pension plans and reducing company contributions to 401(k) plans. As for your investment portfolio -- forget those reassuring historical stock market returns of around 11% annually and note that recent years have been far grimmer: The S&P 500 (SPX) is right where it was more than 12 years ago, in January 1999. Warren Buffett assumes Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKA) pension plan will earn a modest 7.1% a year.
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One more fact: You'll probably live longer than you expect, a wonderful thing in every way except financially. New research from the Society of Actuaries finds that 57% of pre-retirees underestimate life expectancy from their current age, while only 28% overestimate. Your nest egg may have to last much longer than you thought.
Those are formidable headwinds. Yet as the Olympic sailors will remind us, you're not condemned to being blown backward. The right tactics will propel you ahead even now. Think of your practical next steps in three categories. Save smarter
In today's low-yield environment, most of us must salt away more. Easy to say, hard to do. If your employer hasn't adopted the Save More Tomorrow program, urge it to do so; and if it won't, then follow the program on your own. Developed by UCLA business professor Schlomo Benartzi and behavioral economist Richard Thaler, it lets employees pre-commit to saving more every time they get a pay raise. It works -- participants save much more than nonparticipants.
In choosing your saving rate, face the new reality of inflation. Experts debate whether years of monetary loosening in the U.S. and other major economies will push up prices significantly, but ignoring the risk would be foolish. Suppose you'd like your portfolio to pay you $100,000 a year (in constant dollars) for 30 years. With an after-tax return of 6% and inflation at 2%, a nest egg of $1.82 million will do the job. But if inflation turns out to be just one point higher than you assumed, at 3%, you'll need another quarter million dollars.
Invest smarter
Back when we all thought we'd get 11% long-term annual returns, we could maybe afford to ignore fees and expenses. No more. It's time to get tough on the "helpers," Buffett's sarcastic term for the intermediaries who take bits and pieces of our investment returns. As he and Vanguard founder John Bogle constantly preach: Over decades, tenths of a point matter. Some helpers, such as the best fee-only advisers, are emphatically worth their cost. But in today's environment, investors must know exactly how much they're paying and for what.
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DST Retirement Solutions Hires Top Industry Executive To Develop Web Solutions
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --DST Retirement Solutions, a leading provider of flexible retirement plan outsourcing solutions to financial services organizations, today announced that Andy Jordan, former COO of Makibie Corporation, has joined the firm to lead its digital strategies, which includes web and mobile development teams.
Mr. Jordan's focus will include executing DST Retirement Solutions' strategy for evolving existing platforms to be more outcome driven and action-oriented and developing new web and mobile strategies along with the firm's product organization.
He will report directly to Frank LoMedico, Chief Information Officer for DST Retirement Solutions.
"Andy brings a wealth of knowledge and broad experiences to his position that will help us determine and manage our Web solutions for DST's clients," says Mr. LoMedico. "I'm excited he is joining our team and look forward to his contributions to strengthening our business relationships."
In his previous role as CEO for Makibie Corporation, a leading interactive services firm, Mr. Jordan worked extensively with DST Retirement Solutions in the redesign of its plan sponsor and participant websites.
"We're excited about Andy's expertise in the Web space," says Mr. LoMedico, "His skills will be invaluable in helping our clients keep pace with the ever-evolving technologies.
DST Retirement Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DST Systems, Inc., offers one of the industry's broadest arrays of high value retirement plan servicing options for financial organizations distributing and serving their customers' retirement needs.
About DST Retirement Solutions, LLC
DST Retirement Solutions offers one of the broadest arrays of high-value retirement outsourcing solutions for financial organizations distributing retirement investment products and serving their customers' retirement needs. Financial service companies, such as mutual funds, banks, insurance companies and third-party administrators, benefit from our flexible service model that utilizes an end-to-end technology solution and provides support for financial intermediaries. Servicing 4.5 million participants, DST Retirement Solutions supports any plan size and investment vehicle. DST Retirement Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of DST Systems, Inc.
The information and comments in this press release may include forward-looking statements respecting DST and its businesses. Such information and comments are based on DST's views as of today, and actual actions or results could differ. There could be a number of factors, risks, uncertainties or contingencies that could affect future actions or results, including but not limited to those set forth in DST's periodic reports (Forms 10-K or 10-Q) filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All such factors should be considered in evaluating any forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in this press release to reflect future events. Brand, service or product names or marks in this press release are trademarks or service marks, registered or otherwise, of DST Systems, Inc., DST subsidiaries or affiliates, or third parties.
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MassMutual Retirement Services Welcomes Advisors and Third-Party Administrators to National Symposium Series
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --MassMutual's Retirement Services Division recently hosted a series of symposiums for its nationwide network of retirement plan advisors and Third-Party Administrators (TPAs). The two-day action-packed symposiums were designed to help attendees increase their SHARE and avoid the "sea of sameness" in today's challenging market by looking at their business with a new perspective.
"MassMutual's latest symposiums focused on a different and innovative way of thinking," states Hugh O'Toole, senior vice president of sales and client management for MassMutual's Retirement Services Division. "It's no longer about what advisors and TPAs are doing for their customers and prospects, nor about how they are doing it. Rather, their ability to increase their share in 2012 is about telling people why they are in the retirement plan business," adds O'Toole.
Topics presented during the symposium to illustrate this different way of thinking were:
"I was very impressed with the conference - from the speakers, to the material presented, to the accommodations," says Andrea Ryan, senior pension administrator with AFC Pensions, who attended the Memphis Symposium. "The flow throughout the three days was easy and well put together. What impressed me the most was that I walked away from the conference with a new-found appreciation for all the work MassMutual is doing to help America's employees successfully plan and save for retirement," adds Ryan.
Jason-Colin Patrick, retirement plan consultant with USI, who attended the Tucson Symposium commented, "My time was well spent at this conference. I enjoyed the opportunity to learn more about MassMutual and meet the team. MassMutual is a true partner who looks out for the client's best interests and the interests of the advisors they work with. I know our clients will be in good hands."
"I've been to many seminars over the years, but none have hit the mark the way that your symposium did last week," says Timothy Swartley, CFP, senior vice president and trust officer with Univest Bank and Trust, who attended the Miami Symposium. "I'm energized to begin implementing the strategies in our practice. It is clear to me after this event that MassMutual not only has a great product and corporate philosophy, but also that MassMutual has great people," adds Swartley.
"MassMutual Retirement Services understands the value retirement plan advisors and TPAs provide to sponsors and their participants. These symposiums are just one of the many ways MassMutual connects with its network of intermediaries and provides a platform to share new ideas, regulatory updates, opportunities and best practices to help ensure success in their practices. We believe that when intermediaries are informed and successful, plan participant needs are better served," adds O'Toole.
For more information about MassMutual Retirement Services, please contact your retirement plan advisor or call MassMutual at 1-866-444-2601.
About MassMutual
MassMutual Financial Group is a marketing name for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) [of which Retirement Services is a division] and its affiliated companies and sales representatives. MassMutual is headquartered in Springfield, Massachusetts and its major affiliates include: Babson Capital Management LLC; Baring Asset Management Limited; Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers LLC; The First Mercantile Trust Company; MassMutual International LLC; MML Investors Services, LLC, Member FINRA and SIPC; OppenheimerFunds, Inc.; and The MassMutual Trust Company, FSB.
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