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• New Hire Roundup: BondDesk Welcomes Swartz; Kosharek Rises at Raymond James

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  March 28, 2012

  This week in new hires, Donald Swartz went to BondDesk; Jamie Kosharek advanced at Raymond James; and Pinnacle made Michael Kitces a partner.

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  Ryan’s GOP Budget Repeals AMT and Health Care Law, Reforms Tax Code

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  March 20, 2012

  House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., released the House 2013 budget, which would reduce tax brackets from six to two and, like Obama's plan, cut corporate tax rate.

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  New Hire Roundup: Putnam Advances Sipple; Hewson Joins Citi Private Bank

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  March 14, 2012

  This week in new hires, Scott Sipple moved up at Putnam Investments; Mark Hewson went to Citi Private Bank; Bradford Campbell joined Drinker Biddle; Kimberley Branch and John Forrest went to Symetra; and SNR Denton welcomed Lisa Ledbetter.

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  FPA’s Bob Rodriguez: Window Narrowing to Avoid Fiscal Disaster

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  February 21, 2012

  The famed money manager warned that next year would be the most crucial in the past 80 to right our fiscal path before “budgetary financial pressures will explode."

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  SEC Charges UBS Arm With Improper Mutual Fund Pricing

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  January 17, 2012

  The SEC on Tuesday charged an investment advisory arm of UBS with failing to properly price securities in three mutual funds that it managed, which resulted in a misstatement to investors of the net asset values of those funds.

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  Data Casts New Doubt on Housing Market Turnaround

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  December 22, 2011

  The health of the housing market has come under fresh doubts after the National Association of Realtors released substantially revised figures showing 3 million fewer homes than previously thought were sold between 2007 and 2010.

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  SEC Charges Former Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Execs With Fraud

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  December 16, 2011

  The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that it has charged six former executives from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with securities fraud.

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  Senators Cite Deficiencies in FHFA's Oversight of Fannie and Freddie

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  December 13, 2011

  As part of an ongoing series of hearings on how to reform housing finance, the Senate Banking Committee heard testimony on Tuesday from the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s first inspector general, Steve Linick.

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  Bill Miller to Step Down From Legg Mason Value Trust

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  November 17, 2011

  Legendary value manager Bill Miller, who beat the S&P 500 for 15 years straight before underperforming for four of the last five years, will step down from running the Legg Mason Capital Management Value Trust fund in April.

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  FHA Reserves Hit Bottom, but Rebound Expected

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  November 15, 2011

  Acting FHA Commissioner Carol Galante told reporters on Tuesday that “while the FHA is facing the most severe economic conditions,” the FHA’s “Mutual Mortgage Insurance (MMI) fund capital balance remains in positive territory and its programs are actuarially sound.”