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MADISON, Wis. - After 32 years of service, Michael Daubs, chief investment officer for MEMBERS Capital Advisors, announced this year he will retire in March 2006. Daubs was there in 1982 when MEMBERS Capital was launched and led the development of many of the fund families which have grown to...

MADISON, Wis. - As 2005 winds down, there seems to have been no shortage of unexpected news announcements coming out of CUNA Mutual Group for the year. One of the surprise announcements came in October and concerned CUNA Mutual Group's decision to sell its mortgage operation - CUNA Mutual Mortgage...

BETHESDA, Md. - Allpoint, the nationwide non-reciprocal surcharge-free ATM network, continued to grow in 2005 as both credit union and banks executives began to better understand how the network's nonreciprocal pricing strategy and large footprint can help them serve their members and customers. The network, which provides nationwide surcharge-free access...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The growing ranks of credit unions boasting $1 billion or more in assets meant it was no problem in 2005 to find candidates for Credit Union Times' Billionaires Club. By mid-year the count had risen to 104. Many people would argue economies of scale can...

BISMARCK, N.D. - 2005 has been a rocky one for North Dakota credit unions and their trade group. The latest brouhaha involving the North Dakota Credit Union League and the North Dakota Bankers Association over a newly enacted FOM law was set to surface during the December meeting of the...

PHILADELPHIA - A scammer gets convicted for duping credit unions and other financial institutions, and more credit unions move their investment CUSOs in-house were among the top stories this year. For his role in a Ponzi scheme that hundreds of credit unions and others invested $370 million in, Robert L....