Colorado

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  Recruiting Roundup: Wells Adds 31 FAs With $3.5 Billion

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  November 16, 2012

  LPL, Raymond James and Securities America also grab reps from rivals.

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  Wedbush Nabs Morgan Stanley FA

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  November 1, 2012

  Southern California-based Richard Wright moves from the wirehouse to the independent firm.

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  SEC Brings More Insider Trading Actions in Galleon Case

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  October 29, 2012

  The SEC says that it has now charged 32 defendants in its Galleon-related enforcement actions.

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  LTCI: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  October 23, 2012

  The release in late September of a Moody’s Investors Service sector profile of long-term care insurance was filled with doom and gloom.

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  Ponzi Schemer Blames Mysterious One-Eyed Man; Uses Profits to Give Prostitutes a ‘Better Life’

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  October 19, 2012

  The SEC on Thursday charged a purported money manager and two of his chief marketers with defrauding investors in a fake company. Nearly $1 million of the money they siphoned from investors was given to three Las Vegas call girls.

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  Best and Worst 529 College Plans for 2012: Morningstar

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  October 18, 2012

  What’s striking this year is the big pool of winners, a reflection of the improvement in the 529 industry since it hit bottom in 2008—and seven of the 27 medalists are advisor-sold.

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  Sen. Schumer: ‘Scrap’ Simpson-Bowles in Fiscal Cliff Talks, Raise Top Tax Rates

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  October 9, 2012

  Schumer says “old style” tax reform is now obsolete because there are two new conditions that exist today that didn’t exist when the Tax Reform Act of 1986 was passed: “a much larger, more dangerous deficit, and a dramatic increase in income inequality.”

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  New Hire Roundup: U.S. Bank Names Jeppson CIO of Private Client Group

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  October 3, 2012

  This week in new hires, Mary Martuscelli joined The Private Client Reserve as west region president, and Moss Adams announced a transition in leadership.

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  Madame Ex: Advising ‘Gray Divorcees’

  By Olivia Mellan, Sherry Christie  |  September 25, 2012

  We all know the cliché of the older divorcing couple: The husband, in the throes of a midlife crisis, dumps his aging wife for a younger cutie. But Boomers are turning this cliché on its head.

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  How John Bogle Really Sees ETFs

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  September 25, 2012

  The investment visionary, long a skeptic of exchange-traded funds, gives his candid assessment of the fast-growing field.