1.   A financial advisory company was suspended from its city contract Friday after officials determined that it had not paid city taxes for the last five years.

2.   For example, a fund is not required to disclose lawsuits or even criminal charges filed against a key executive of the advisory company that manages that fund.

3.   He will replace Richard Peters, who is stepping down to establish a corporate finance advisory company.

4.   In a telephone interview Thursday, Ms. Salhany added that she planned to move to Boston and begin her own advisory company called J.H. Media.

5.   NatWest bought British fund manager Gartmore Plc last Spring and U.K. mergers advisory company J.O. Hambro Magan last Fall.

6.   Nissho Iwai Corp. will establish an investment advisory company that will start business by the end of this month, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported, citing company officials.

7.   No advisory company worth its salt has yet agreed to the ultimate fee arrangement -- based on performance.

8.   Soros, a billionaire investor and philanthropist, runs the Quantum group of seven offshore investment funds through an investment advisory company called Soros Fund Management.

9.   The decision would allow both domestic and foreign investment advisory companies to manage money in so-called tax-qualified pensions overseen by the Finance Ministry.

10.   The corporate parents or affiliates of the advisory companies took responsibility, he said.