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  Top 10 Biggest 529 College Savings Plans: 2013

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  June 5, 2013

  Here are the 10 biggest 529 college savings plans by AUM, asset growth and market share, as compiled by the Financial Research Corp.

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  Added-Value Programs Leave Advisors Wanting

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 30, 2013

  Financial advisors do value financial firms’ value-added programs—they just want the firms to add more value. That is one conclusion of a new study examining advisor attitudes on the plethora of programs.

• Quant ETFs Debut

  By Ronald Delegge, ETFguide.com  |  May 28, 2013

• Experts Share Bullish Market Views

  By Janet Levaux  |  May 28, 2013

• What Place for Maturity ETFs?

  By Ronald L. Delegge  |  May 28, 2013

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  Ex-BlackRock Fund Manager Arrested for Insider Trading

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  May 14, 2013

  The arrest is the latest in a string of high-profile apprehensions by Britain's Financial Conduct Authority.

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  Longevity Is Killing Us: BlackRock’s Larry Fink

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 10, 2013

  BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is calling on government and business leaders to make the retirement funding crisis a national priority.

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  U.S. Recovers as the World Watches: Schroders

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 8, 2013

  U.S. investors are well acquainted with market uncertainty and the wobbly economic recovery, but they’ve got nothing on worried investors elsewhere in the world.

• Markets, Funds & Flows: Super Q1’13

  By Janet Levaux  |  April 29, 2013

  The Dow and S&P 500 indices reached all-time highs this first quarter of 2013, which boosted investor inflows and the performance of many equity fund categories, according to several reports released this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average had returns of 11.25% for the quarter, while the S&P 500 returned...

• Fidelity Expands Menu

  By Ronald L. Delegge  |  April 29, 2013

  Among its peers, Fidelity hasn’t been the most aggressive in its attempt to accommodate ETF investors. But the Boston-based firm is trying to change that.