Arizona

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  New Hire Roundup: Benartzi to Serve as Achaean Academic Advisor

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  July 24, 2012

  This week in new hires, Achaean Financial announced that Professor Shlomo Benartzi would become its first academic advisor, and Michele Wein Layne was named regional director of the SEC’s Los Angeles regional office.

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  Top Portfolio Products: AQR Capital Launches Defensive Funds

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  July 13, 2012

  In addition, AdvisorShares and Roger Nusbaum teamed up on a new actively managed ETF and ALPS launched a “Dogs of the Dow” ETF.

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  5 of History’s Brazen Crooks Who Defrauded Markets

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  July 11, 2012

  Remember Ken Lay? Probably. Remember Alves dos Reis? Probably not, but he nearly bankrupted a country in 1925.

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  New Hire Roundup: Morningstar Adds to Fund Research Team

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  June 20, 2012

  This week in new hires, Morningstar announced six appointments for its fund analyst research team; James Machuga joined Merk Investments; and Philipp Hildebrand was named vice chairman at BlackRock.

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  Bull Kiesel, Bear Shilling Clash Over Housing

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  May 23, 2012

  "If housing goes down 20%, I will back up the truck and likely PIMCO will, too," Kiesel says. Shilling predicts "recessionary kinds of things" in the next three to four years.

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  Relocation Expert Warns California’s Tax Hikes Will Push Out More Businesses

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 16, 2012

  Business relocation coach Joseph Vranich warns a further increase in taxes for the 48th-ranked state in terms of tax burden (according to the Tax Foundation) will only exacerbate California's financial woes.

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  4 Ways to Build Better Employees—and a Better Business

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  May 10, 2012

  AdvisorOne contributor Angela Herbers delivered a presentation titled “P4—Building Great Businesses by Creating Great Employees” to an enthusiastic crowd at the 2012 FPA Retreat.

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  Why Entrepreneurs Love Dallas and Hate L.A.

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 8, 2012

  A survey conducted by Thumbtack, a website that helps consumers get bids from local handymen, yoga instructors and even financial advisors, provides data from local entrepreneurs themselves.

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  FPA’s Auslander Describes New Practice Management Track

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  May 7, 2012

  Paul Auslander, president of the FPA, sat with AdvisorOne to discuss the organization’s new practice management track.

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  What Is Money, and Why Is Europe So Messed Up?

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  May 7, 2012

  What is money? No, not the hopes, aspirations and goals we attribute to money. What is money itself, the physical property?