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  Health Care and Taxes, Pt. 1: HSAs

  By Tax Facts Online  |  March 12, 2013

  How health savings account distributions are taxed.

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  4 Ways to Repeat the Mortgage Mess: Peter Wallison

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  March 8, 2013

  Peter Wallison decries Washington's latest “fix” to prevent another repeat of the housing market collapse.

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  Obama vs. Romney: 6 Key Differences on Health Care

  By Allison Bell, LifeHealthPro  |  October 25, 2012

  The two candidates engage in platform-to-platform combat over the future of commercial insurance, Medicare and Medicaid.

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  13 Vital Steps to Insure HNW Clients’ Retirement Wealth

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  October 19, 2012

  Are your wealthy clients leaving personal insurance policies largely untouched for years on end? They could face lifestyle-changing losses and unnecessarily high annual expenses, according to ACE Private Risk Services.

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  HSAs Losing Luster Under Obamacare

  By Robert Bloink, Esq., LL.M., William H. Byrnes, Esq.  |  July 27, 2012

  HSAs are about to lose much of their value under the PPACA, which will impose minimum reimbursement rates on all health insurance plans—ensuring that premiums for high-deductible plans will increase.

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  FSI to FINRA: This Is the Wrong Time for Higher Fees

  By Dale Brown, Financial Services Institute  |  July 26, 2012

  Part of FSI’s engagement with FINRA is to let them know when they have gone too far. That is clearly the case with the substantial fee increases the organization has proposed for broker-dealers and financial advisors, increases that would hit small firms the hardest.

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  FSI Urges SEC: Don’t Let FINRA Raise Fees

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  July 23, 2012

  Dale Brown worries about “humongous” compliance costs; group concerned over “timing, context and size” of fee increases.

• Banks Seek Relief as More Investors Move to Cash

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  August 26, 2011

  As more investors move to cash as a defensive move against another possible downturn, U.S. regulators have asked some banks to take more deposits from large investors even if it’s unprofitable. Bloomberg reports lenders in return are seeking relief on insurance premiums and leverage ratios.

• Liable to Regret?

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  August 24, 2011

  Your clients, or even your own firm, may be considering self-insuring to cover costs normally covered by health or workers’ compensation insurance, but a recent poll shows that there’s a certain amount of ignorance about the responsibilities and liabilities of a self-insured group’s member firms—and that ignorance is growing.