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  Today’s Bond Yields Are ‘Financial Repression’: Vanguard Expert

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  September 10, 2012

  Ken Volpert, head of Vanguard’s Taxable Bond Group, wants to be sure that bond investors are prepared for what lies ahead—namely small to negative returns.

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  New Hire Roundup: Hatteras Promotes Murphy

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  August 22, 2012

  This week in new hires, Robert Murphy was named CIO of Hatteras Alternative Mutual Funds; Steven Lofquist went to JHS Capital Advisors; and Franklin Square welcomed Mike Gerber.

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  New Hire Roundup: Tiger 21 Names Garella San Francisco Chairwoman

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  August 8, 2012

  This week in new hires, Tiger 21 named Julie Garella chairwoman of its San Francisco group, Eagle Asset Management brought in four new portfolio managers in Vermont, and Steven Young went to Citi Private Bank.

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  SEC, FINRA Enforcement Roundup: Bristol-Myers Squibb Exec Charged

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  August 2, 2012

  There was an international flavor to some of the recent actions taken by the SEC and FINRA, including freezing $38 million in assets in an international insider trading case and charges involving a Chinese reverse merger company.

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  Treasury Releases Model Agreement for Foreign Tax Compliance

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  July 26, 2012

  The Treasury Department released Thursday a model agreement developed with France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K. to implement some provisions of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

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  On Dodd-Frank’s 2nd Birthday, Should Investors Celebrate?

  By Knut A. Rostad  |  July 20, 2012

  Individual investors have not witnessed dramatic regulatory changes favoring investors over the past two years, but they seem to be voting with their assets, moving them more toward fiduciary advisors.

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  New Hire Roundup: Putnam Adds Three; Wagner Retires From BlackRock, Joins Board

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

  This week in new hires, David Scheetz, Edward Deeds and James Axford joined Putnam Investments; and Susan Wagner retired as vice chairwoman of BlackRock and was named to its board.

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  Unfinished Business: Dodd-Frank’s Many Questions

  By Nicole Gelinas  |  June 27, 2012

  On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, known as Dodd-Frank, into law. Two years on, uncertainty abounds about the legislation’s meaning and impact.

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  DOL’s Borzi: Industry Backlash on Fee Rules Is Unfounded

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  June 19, 2012

  Phyllis Borzi, Assistant Secretary of Labor at the EBSA, laid out on Monday EBSA’s regulatory agenda for the rest of the year and clarified one area that’s caused a “backlash” from retirement planning officials.

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  G-20 Boosts IMF Firewall, Pressures Germany

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  June 19, 2012

  At the summit meeting of G-20 leaders in Los Cabos, Mexico, the focus was on strengthening the firewall of the IMF and pushing Germany to relent on pooled debt and increasing deficit spending.