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August 31, 2012—There's something impressive about a top executive who stays at the helm for 57 years. Charles Loudermilk Sr., the founder of rent-to-own chain Aaron's Inc. (AAN) accomplished that, serving as chief executive from 1955 to 2008 and as executive chairman since then.

August 29, 2012—Based on recent news accounts, one would conclude that things are going swimmingly at Ebix, Inc. (EBIX), an Atlanta-based company that supplies the insurance industry with software and e-commerce solutions. And based on an 8-K that Ebix filed late yesterday ...

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August 21, 2012—On July 2, Brightpoint (CELL) announced it would be bought by Ingram Micro (IM). As far as we can tell, the acquisition makes sense on its face: Brightpoint provides procurement, logistics and other services to the wireless industry, and Ingram ...

August 17, 2012—Yesterday's announcement that the chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (BRCD), Michael Klayko, plans to step down resulted in the company's stock price ticking upwards about 6%, after the news rekindled some oft-bandied speculation that the company ...

August 16, 2012—There's a lot of sturm und drang over pension plans these days. State and local governments are getting slammed because new accounting rules make their pension plans look less healthy (even though the underlying obligations aren't actually changing). Meantime, private-sector ...