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Bank Beachhead

USAmeriBank, unaffected by real estate loans, is focusing onserving commercial customers and expanding in central Florida.

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Group Growth

With a foothold already in place in St. Petersburg and Jacksonville, the Florida Bank Group is now setting its sights on Sarasota. After that, it's the rest of Florida.

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Growing the Wealth

Ray Ifert brings his knowledge of west central Florida to Bank of New York Mellon, which established a Tampa office in January to seek and serve the affluent.

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Bond Buyers

Forget stocks. Bonds are where the action is this year. Wasmer, Schroeder & Co. is one of the most skillful at picking fixed-income investments.

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Public Challenge

Investors flocked to publicly traded banks during the recent boom. But they've punished the banking sector in the downturn, pushing down stock prices to multi-year lows. The Florida stigma hasn't helped.

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  • August 29, 2008
Young Minds

Steve Morris saw an untapped market in teaching kids and teens the ABCs of entrepreneurialism. Now he's gone global.

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  • August 29, 2008
Retail is Alive (Really!)

Reports of the death of Florida retail aregreatly exaggerated. For now, an objective look at commercial real estate vacancies and rents doesn't show widespread distress.

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  • August 29, 2008
Smart Charlotte

Developers and builders have skipped over Charlotte County because of its reputation as an unfriendly place to do business. The county's 34-year-old director of growth management wants to change that.

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  • August 29, 2008
Passionate for Patterson

How do you run an charity that grew itsendowment from $3 million to $225 million overnight? Debra Jacobs, a former Gulf Coast banking executive turned local philanthropic guru, is about to find out.

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  • August 29, 2008
A Buying Binz

One of the last remaining pre-World War II commercial buildings in downtown Sarasota is up for sale.

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  • August 29, 2008
Getting it back

Steve Delaney lost a lucrative book-printing deal a year ago to low-cost Chinese competitors, but he won it back when the Olympics disrupted business there. The deal shows how American businesses can take advantage of the perils of offshoring.

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  • August 29, 2008
Calendar of Events

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Opportunity Time

Despite the real estate downturn, Ray Sandelli believes strong fundamentals will mean good news for commercial real estate on the Gulf Coast.

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  • August 25, 2008
Attractive debt

Large institutional investors, including the largest pension fund in the U.S., are finding debt funds more attractive than stocks. It could be a risky, but lucrative, bet if the economy turns around.

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Tent Revival

Brian Boyle and his two sons survived some early mistakes in their first family-runentrepreneurial effort. Now the business is actually growing in a down economy.

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