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  Andy Friedman: Which Wealth Transfer Tactics Will Survive Congress?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 22, 2013

  Act now to transfer wealth, Washington Update analyst Andy Friedman warns, because Congress is likely to close some loopholes while forging a budget compromise needed to raise the debt limit.

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  Bernanke Talks and 10-Year Treasury Yield Zooms Past 2%

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 22, 2013

  Bernanke admits that savers who rely on interest income from savings accounts or government bonds are receiving very low returns even as low interest rates have helped create jobs and support home prices.

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  FINRA Inks Deal With Direct Edge, Gains Oversight of 90% of Equity Trading Volume

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 22, 2013

  FINRA announced Wednesday that Direct Edge, the third-largest stock exchange operator in the U.S., has made a deal with FINRA to provide market surveillance services on behalf of Direct Edge's two licensed stock exchanges.

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  5 Indie BDs Ordered to Pay $9.6M for Nontraded REIT Violations

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 22, 2013

  Massachusetts Securities Regulator William Galvin ordered five IBDs to pay $8.6 million in restitution to investors and fined them a total of $975,000 for improper sales of nontraded REITs.

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  What It Means to Be an Advisor

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  May 21, 2013

  An outspoken group of top advisors convened at the Curian Conference in Chicago to sound off on everything from the political climate to women as a niche market to retirement income and behavior, and more.

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  Inexperienced Plan Sponsors Need a Little Love From Fund Websites

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 21, 2013

  Fund firms managing employee retirement accounts make it needlessly difficult for plan sponsors to fulfill their fiduciary obligations, a new Dalbar study has found.

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  Top 30 Colleges for Highest Starting Salaries

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  May 21, 2013

  Out of 1,058 colleges surveyed, graduates of these schools grabbed the biggest starting salaries from their first jobs.

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  Bond Investors Must Prepare for Rate Spike: SEC’s Walter

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 20, 2013

  At the FINRA conference, SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter also said it was time to get to the "nitty-gritty" of a fiduciary rule.

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  Morningstar Expands Equity Coverage on 28,000 Companies

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 20, 2013

  Morningstar's new ratings are based on statistics and analyst-driven equity ratings as well as earnings yield, average daily volume and total return volatility.

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  Matthews Asia Joins Frontier Rush

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  May 20, 2013

  “We’re seeing certain markets that are at the same point China was 20 years ago,” a Matthews portfolio manager said.