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  Top 20 Countries for Retirement Security

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  March 8, 2013

  Natixis has released its annual retirement security index, and Americans are lagging Slovakia. Yes. Slovakia.

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  Top 10 Tax Cheats: the Big, the Bad & the Weird

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  March 5, 2013

  From the infamous Al Capone to our top choice (you won’t believe what job he held before his conviction), these 10 learned the lesson the hard way—and some learned it repeatedly.

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  9 Ways to Close the Deal

  By David Port  |  March 1, 2013

  Call it fulfilling your fiduciary responsibility or call it selling an idea — your success as an advisor depends on your ability to convince people to act on your advice. Check out these nine battle-tested tactics.

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  12 Best & Worst Broker-Dealers: Q4 Earnings

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  February 27, 2013

  One of the wirehouse firms produced a turnaround in profits of almost $800 million, while another reported almost $2.4 billion in losses.

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  Top 25 Finance Company 401(k) Plans: BrightScope

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  February 26, 2013

  To judge by the 401(k) plans that finance companies offer their employees, they’re doing a good job of doing unto themselves as they would have others do.

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  12 Non-U.S. Investors Who Pledged Half Their Wealth to Charity

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  February 25, 2013

  Billionaire families from eight countries have joined the Giving Pledge started in 2010 by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.

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  5 Wacky Tax Deduction Ideas (and Why They Might Work)

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  February 20, 2013

  Rachel Louise Ensign helpfully rounds up some of the oddest tax deduction attempts and explains why some work and some don’t.

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  12 Presidents’ Big State of the Union Ideas on Economy

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  February 14, 2013

  From FDR to the second Bush, a look at what presidents had to say in their annual message to Congress.

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  Top 10 Mega-Wealthy Donors in 2012

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  February 11, 2013

  The donors on The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s 2013 Philanthropy 50 committed a total of $7.4 billion to charity in 2012. Three of the top five philanthropists were couples under 40.

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  Our 20 Favorite Top Wealth Manager Logos

  By Editorial Staff  |  February 6, 2013

  What makes your firm stand out? Out of the 230 logos AdvisorOne gathered from our annual Top Wealth Managers listing and survey, our editors and art directors chose 20 designs that hit the mark.