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  Sallie Krawcheck: Top 10 Reasons It’s Bad to Pay Bankers in Stock

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  February 6, 2013

  Krawcheck says it’s time for large banks’ boards to come up with new payment strategies for executives, such as bonds, “which are fundamentally risk-discouraging.”

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  Sovereign Debt: Emerging Markets and Developed Nations

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  February 4, 2013

  Optimism may be surfacing in the Eurozone, and many officials may have backed off their original tough stance on austerity, but Greece is still battling its debt demons.

• Wirehouses Roll Out ’13 Comp Plans

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  January 23, 2013

  After getting feedback from top advisors, Morgan Stanley said in December that it will share a new stock-ownership plan with reps in 2013.

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  Merrill, UBS Grab Teams From Morgan Stanley

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  January 14, 2013

  Six veteran advisors jump from one wirehouse to another in New Jersey.

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  PIMCO’s Gross QE4 Warning: Here Be Inflationary Dragons

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  January 4, 2013

  PIMCO bond guru Bill Gross leads the charge in expressing all the inflation fears that the Fed unleashed with its December QE4 announcement.

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  Wall St. Ignores Noise, Sees Bullish 2013 for Stocks

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  December 28, 2012

  Wall Street believes that the world’s central banks will do their best in 2013 to force reluctant investors to move their money out of bonds and into stocks.

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  Wirehouses, IBDs Post Final Recruiting Wins, Losses of 2012

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  December 20, 2012

  Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and other firms saw a number of advisors come and go at year end.

• Sidebar: Public Impact

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  December 20, 2012

  Many 401(k) participants have been unaware that service provider fees come out of their retirement plans.

• Wirehouses, Others Actively Attract Reps

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  December 20, 2012

  In the final months of 2012, the wirehouse firms continued to recruit advisors from each other and from other broker-dealers.

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  401(k) Fee Transparency: Best & Worst Providers

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  December 20, 2012

  Dalbar and Research magazine conducted an in-depth study of the new ERISA 408(b)(2) disclosure rule, providing rankings in key categories of big providers.