Morning Links: 12 May 2008

HealthSpring brass prepare to sell shares, another relo candidate revealed, Franklin metals company going public, Goldleaf HQ and LifePoint exec moving on, and more...

Email | Print By Geert De Lombaerde

HealthSpring CEO Herb Fritch and CFO Kevin McNamara have filed notice with the SEC that they plan to unload up to 1.8 million shares of the company (Ticker: HS) by December 2009 under a 10b5-1 trading plan. As of early last month, the duo owned 5.8 million and 596,000 shares, respectively.

After Franklin Mayor John Schroer last week said an insurance company is scouting the region, a Deutsche Bank official says Nashville is in the running for up to 1,000 jobs.

A blog affiliated with AOL has a skeptical look around the Franklin estate Pacman Jones is looking to unload.

Cool Springs-based Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp. has filed papers to go public. The company, which is controlled by private-equity player Apollo Management, expects to raise up to $250 million. Read the company's S-1 here. Separately, the firm has named a new COO.

Gary Willis, LifePoint's chief accounting officer, is jumping ship at the end of the month.

So is a local headquarters: The board of Goldleaf Financial Solutions has moved the company's home office to the Atlanta area and given Lynn Boggs another title.

iPayment last quarter reversed its year-ago losses, posting a $1.3 million profits on revenue of $185 million.

Ratings agency A.M. Best says the pending acquisition of Columbia-based Haulers Insurance Co. won't change its opinions of the company's financial strength.