Floyd Norris

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  Toxic Words: The Importance of the Language You Use in Your Firm

  By Mark Tibergien  |  April 29, 2013

  Words are powerful. They can be used to encourage, inspire and enlighten—or to judge and destroy.

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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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  Editor's Choice for April 27

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  April 27, 2009

  In the search for clarity for the values of toxic bank holdings, the Fed's stress test methodology uses two FASB standards in valuing holdings...junk bonds--more junky than ever.

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  Editor's Choice for April 2

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  April 2, 2009

  The Financial Accounting Standards Board, FASB voted April 2 to loosen mark-to-market accounting standards for banks...Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin charged the Madoff feeder fund Fairfield Greenwich with fraud.