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Our broker is helping my wife and me plan a portfolio and we are beginning with $7,500. She has recommended these five real estate investment trusts, and I would like …

When I was 19, my dad made me production manager of his 75-employee factory, which made kitchen cabinets. Before I officially took the job I worked in the shop at each job, and set production …

For 28 years, the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick have paraded their Irish pride through the streets of downtown Des Moines to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. This year is no different, with the annual parade …

Lisa Fitzgerald says the goal of Iowa Network Services is simple: to increase its shareholders’ value. Of Iowa’s 147 independent telephone companies, 127 have invested in Iowa Network Services as owners.

INS brings Iowa’s independent …

Local governments are increasingly looking to a Des Moines company to help them manage documents while integrating various forms of technology.

Ted Kruzan founded IMAGETek Inc. in 1995 to help counties manage land records in …

Few Central Iowa companies are buying insurance policies that would compensate them for losses resulting from terrorist attacks, despite frequent warnings from state and federal officials that such attacks could occur in the future.

“My …

This is a trying time for Debbie Wood. While her husband, Danny, a member of the Army Reserve, is deployed overseas for military duty, she is assuming extra responsibilities to maintain the family’s household and …

Units of the Waterstreet Brownstones, a two-building condominium development along the Des Moines River just south of Court Avenue, are selling faster than expected, according to real estate professionals who are selling the properties.  

So …

Dr. Stephen Stephenson says his choice to move to Iowa and join Blank Children’s Hospital as executive vice president and medical director was made the moment he left the job interviews.

“It was the people,” …

Shares of Maytag Corp. lost 16 percent of their value last Tuesday after the company said first-quarter profits and sales would fall short of expectations, largely because consumers are spending less when buying vacuum cleaners.…