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  Greater Female Representation Pays Off for the Financial Services Industry

  By Steve Weydert, CFP, MS  |  March 1, 2012

  We’re in a relationship business and women are good at relationships; so it should come as no surprise that, when given the opportunity, women succeed at all levels of the financial services industry.

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  New Hire Roundup: Bowen Is Acting Chair at SIPC; Pologe Goes to Genworth

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  February 29, 2012

  This week in new hires, Genworth welcomed David Pologe and David Ford joined Securities America.

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  Gahler Investment Group, David Ford Join Securities America

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  February 28, 2012

  Securities America announced Tuesday that it has recruited three new advisors to its ranks from Investment Centers of America.

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  Top 7 TV Advertising Slogans by Financial Firms

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  February 22, 2012

  As John Houseman intoned in the iconic TV commercials, Smith Barney earns its money, albeit now as a Morgan Stanley underling. No one can really listen when E.F. Hutton speaks any longer, since they've been subsumed. AdvisorOne rounds up a collection of its favorite ads.

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  New Hire Roundup: Oliner, Kleinke Join AEI; Bozek Advances at Prudential

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  February 2, 2012

  This week in new hires, Stephen Oliner and JD Kleinke went to AEI; Joan Bozek was promoted at Prudential Retirement; Steven McKay and Joseph Kaplan went to Putnam Investments.

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  Holiday Sales Estimates Revised Up

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  December 27, 2011

  Thanks to the happy circumstance of a legal holiday the day after Christmas, retailers are hoping that Monday will turn out to contribute to record holiday sales for 2011.

• A Warren Buffett ETF?

  By Ronald Delegge, ETFguide.com  |  December 26, 2011

  We know that financial product developers have thought about introducing a “Warren Buffett ETF,” not because the investing public really needs it, but because there’s no shortage of dubious ideas. Interestingly, though, financial marketers might not have to invent a Buffett ETF because one already exists.

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  DeVoe Departs Schwab to Form Advisor M&A Consulting Firm

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  November 21, 2011

  Will provide strategic consulting and valuations, and arrange financing for mergers and acquisitions for advisors.

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  New Hire Roundup: Reinhart Joins Wealthcare Capital, Bowden Goes to SEC

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  October 26, 2011

  This week in new hires, Len Reinhart joined Wealthcare Capital’s board, Andrew J. Bowden was appointed the SEC’s new associate director of advisor exams, and the Senate confirmed Luis Aguilar and Daniel Gallagher as SEC commissioners.

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  Measured Pace

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  October 26, 2011

  Back in 1976, while other teenagers had started obsessing over the newest style of music, punk rock, 16-year-old Louis M. Ricciardi was grooming himself to be a financial advisor. Hipping classmates to the Rule of 72, he was touting the benefits of investing at a young age.