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  FINRA Targeting Firms’ Social Media Use

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  June 18, 2013

  FINRA is conducting spot checks of firms’ social media communications on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and blogs.

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  SEC, FINRA Warn of Email ‘Pump-and-Dump’ Stock Schemes

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  June 12, 2013

  Latest McAfee Threats Report confirms “a steep rise” in spam email linked to “pump-and-dump” stock schemes designed to trick unsuspecting investors.

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  SEC Enforcement: Broker Busted for Lying to Investigators

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  June 6, 2013

  Among recent enforcement actions by the SEC were charges against a Florida-based stock promoter for lying to SEC investigators and suspension of trade of 61 shell companies to preclude fraud.

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  Business Is Good, Despite Mixed Feelings on Economy: SEI

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  May 31, 2013

  Ninety-one percent of advisors polled at SEI’s National Strategic Advisor Conference in Dallas said they expected business to be better in 2013 than it was in 2012.

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  Nasdaq to Pay SEC $10M Over Botched Facebook IPO

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 29, 2013

  The SEC on Wednesday charged Nasdaq with violations resulting from “poor systems and decision-making” during the IPO and secondary trading of Facebook shares.

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  Personal Brands, Horse Rescue and Tommy Lee Jones: Ameriprise Advisors Sell Online

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 23, 2013

  As the world of big-data technology changes at a lightning pace, it may take a giant company with deep pockets and a sizeable R&D budget to figure out whether online financial sales work.

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  Plan Sponsors Embrace Social Media

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  May 14, 2013

  What’s with this Facebook thing? It’s a question answered by more plan sponsors.

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  Malaysia Is Gateway to ASEAN and Optimal Investment Destination

  By Savita Iyer-Ahrestani, AdvisorOne  |  May 13, 2013

  Malaysia has a lot going for it and the foreign direct investment continues to roll in and prop up growth.

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  LinkedIn Courts Advisors as Social Media Use Grows

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 2, 2013

  LinkedIn super user Cathy Curtis of Curtis Financial Planning says she uses social media to market her personal brand.

• Has Your Profession Left You?

  By Gil Weinreich  |  April 29, 2013

  A high school teacher in Syracuse, N.Y., recently gained notoriety when he posted his resignation on his Facebook page. Jerry Conti’s lamentation about education—“I am not leaving my profession, in truth, it has left me”—immediately went viral.