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  Top Portfolio Products: iShares Launches New ETFs; Market Vectors Introduces ETF

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  February 16, 2012

  In addition, CLS Investments was named advisor to a fund from the AdvisorOne family of funds.

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  New Hire Roundup: Dowling & Yahnke Advance 4; Key Private Bank Launches Delaware Trust

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  February 15, 2012

  Among the hiring action this week: Dowling & Yahnke announced four promotions; Key Private Bank launched a Delaware trust company; Patrick Goshtigian joined EP Wealth Advisors; Jane Bachmann and Eugene Miller went to Citi Private Bank.

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  Top Portfolio Products: ProShares ETF Focuses on Germany; BlackRock Offers New Fund

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  January 27, 2012

  New products over the last week include a new ETF focusing on German debt from ProShares and a reintroduced multi-asset income fund from BlackRock.

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  Fidelity Investments to Enter ETF Business

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  January 3, 2012

  Fidelity Investments recently filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission to begin offering index-based exchange-traded funds.

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  Top 8 Most Overpaid CEOs of Public Companies

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  November 2, 2011

  Some CEOs keep raking in the bucks even as the companies they lead lose market share, see their stock price fall, or both.

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  Top Portfolio Products: BlackRock Launches 3 Funds; New Putnam Fund Seeks Total Return

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  October 10, 2011

  New products introduced over the last week include three alternative investment funds from BlackRock, a new dynamic allocation fund from Putnam, and two Credit Suisse funds reorganized into Aberdeen funds.

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  New Hires Roundup: BlackRock Adds Taborsky; Fisher Goes to Touchstone; Harris myCFO Appoints Lee

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 8, 2011

  This week in new hires, Morningstar advances Harding; Penn Mutual brings in Reynolds; Meader Chairs CFA Institute board; IPI appoints Kumar and Sutherland.

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  BlackRock Adds Index Funds for DC Plans as Index Trend Grows

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  August 11, 2011

  BlackRock's head of defined contribution plans, Chip Castille, says the firm's launch of 10 new index funds comes in response to a growing trend toward index funds for DC plans.

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  iShares Rolls Out Floating-Rate Note Fund; UBS Adds to Energy ETN Group

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  June 20, 2011

  Other new investment products are launched by Neuberger Berman, Aperio, Aequam and Highland

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  New Hire Roundup: BlackRock Adds Keeley, Copeland Joins AMG

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  June 16, 2011

  This week in new hires, Terry Keeley joined BlackRock as head of the firm’s official institutions group and John Copeland came to AMG to head up a new subsidiary...