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Just months after a consulting firm swept into the Fairview system with a new approach to collecting money from patients, hospital employees were expressing alarm and frustration, records show.”We are giving the image that we are money-hungry,” one said. Said another: “The patients are being bombarded by phone calls.”Their concerns soon would spread.In the past few weeks, Fairview and its    .. more …

NEW YORK (AP) ” Total U.S. money market mutual fund assets fell $510 million to $2.582 trillion for the week that ended Wednesday, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.Assets of the nation’s retail money market mutual funds fell $10.11 billion to $892.79 billion, the Washington-based mutual fund trade group said. Assets of taxable money market funds in the retail category fell $6.47    .. more …

MOSCOW, April 17, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Yandex (Nasdaq: YNDX – News ) today announced the launch of Yandex.Money cards for its customers. Users of Yandex.Money, the largest electronic payment system in Russia, can obtain a free MasterCard debit card tied to their Yandex.Money account to make payments both online and offline using funds in their account.The Yandex.Money card is accepted    .. more …

WATKINSVILLE, Ga.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Stadion Money Management ( www.stadionmoney.com ), a money management firm known for its technically-based investor solutions that aims to capture most of the market’s good times and miss most of its bad times, today announced the expansion of its board of directors to include three veteran financial executives. John Walters, Rick Wolfert, and Robert Wagner    .. more …

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — After three years of rapidly unwinding holdings in banks that share the euro currency, U.S. money market funds have dipped back in.These funds increased their holdings by 15% since the end of December, according to a Fitch report released Thursday. Most of that increase stems from money markets adding to their positions in French banks, according to Fitch, which looked at    .. more …

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* Money managers reluctant to lend after downgrades * Investors jittery despite ECB liquidity measures * Bidding for U.S. T-bills, agency notes seen persisting NEW YORK (Frankfurt: A0DKRK – news ) , Jan 17 (Reuters) – Expect U.S. investors tocling to their dollars after Standard Poor’s downgraded nineeuro zone countries and one of the region’s two rescue funds,stoking worries about lending to    .. more …

*Note: This was written by a Yahoo! contributor. Do you have a personal finance story that you’d like to share? Sign up with the Yahoo! Contributor Network to start publishing your own finance articles. I used to have a detached view of money. It was something that appeared in my mailbox or desk in the form of a paycheck, and sometimes stayed for a week or two. As technology improved, money    .. more …

NEW YORK (AP) ” Total U.S. money market mutual fund assets rose $16.46 billion to $2.639 trillion for the week that ended Wednesday, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.Assets of the nation’s retail money market mutual funds fell $2.35 billion to $933.62 billion, the Washington-based mutual fund trade group said. Assets of taxable money market funds in the retail category fell $1.96    .. more …