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• Exploiting Attractive Resources

  By Ed McCarthy, CFP  |  May 21, 2013

  Natural gas continues to attract favorable attention as a key energy source for the United States. To better understand what trends are affecting the market for natural gas and stock in the sector, we turned to four industry experts.

• Full Speed Ahead for Midstream MLPs

  January 23, 2013

  The role of natural gas as an energy source continues to expand as the United States moves toward energy independence.

• Dividend Increases Hit the Mark

  By Mark Agnew  |  September 25, 2012

  The shareholder-owned electric utility industry added to its eight-year-long trend of widespread dividend increases in Q2.

• Generating Strong Returns

  By Ed McCarthy, CFP  |  September 25, 2012

  Despite the overall market’s swings from risk-on to risk-off in response to a slow U.S. recovery, Europe’s ongoing crisis and the Fed’s decision to hold rates at extraordinarily low levels, electric utilities have continued to provide solid total returns for growth-and-income investors seeking lower volatility.

• Steady Returns for a Wealth of Investment Strategies

  By Ed McCarthy, CFP  |  June 27, 2012

  I’s been a year of contrasts in the U.S. energy business.

• Determined Deliveries

  By Ed McCarthy, CFP  |  March 26, 2012

  Alliance Resource Partners LP (ARLP) / Natural Resource Partners (NRP)

• Industry Crossroads

  By Barry Russell  |  March 26, 2012

  The American oil and natural gas industry finds itself once again at a dramatic political crossroads in 2012.

• Unprecedented Growth: Opportunities for MLPs

  February 1, 2012

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  Top 10 (Surprisingly) Best Cities for Retirees

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  October 3, 2011

  The Center for a Secure Retirement’s list of cities had several great choices and a few real head-scratchers.

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  Does Anyone Have a Real Economic Plan?

  By Nicole Gelinas  |  July 26, 2011

  Going into next year’s election, President Obama is in a heap of trouble over the economy. Some evidence: in June, only 29 percent of the people who participated in a Wall Street Journal / NBC News poll thought the country was “headed in the right direction.”