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  Advisors Are All A-Twitter

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  April 11, 2013

  Advisors are flocking to social media sites in ever-greater numbers, according to American Century Investments, though many have privacy and compliance concerns.

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  Clearing Firms Gain a Human Touch

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  April 1, 2013

  Traditionally, clearing firms have helped independent broker-dealers by ruling the back office. Now these durable companies are stepping out front by tuning BDs in to vital growth opportunities—as well as to potential perils.

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  SEC Enforcement Roundup: CR Intrinsic Slapped With Record Insider Trading Fine

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  March 21, 2013

  The SEC settlement by CR Intrinsic was for $600 million, the largest ever in an insider trading case; meanwhile, a financier was charged in a scam involving pre-IPO Facebook stock.

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  7 Tips to Avoid SEC Compliance Audits When Marketing

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  March 20, 2013

  Compliance expert Nancy Lininger offers rules of thumb on avoiding the flags that SEC auditors are looking for in marketing materials.

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  5 Reasons Advisors Are Wasting Their Time on Social Media

  By Todd Greider  |  March 7, 2013

  Across the country, advisors are wasting their time on social media, but not for the reasons you may think.

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  Jackson Launches Two New Thought Leadership Venues for Advisors

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  March 6, 2013

  Jackson is the most recent company throwing advisors a “thought leadership” lifeline—ideas, strategies and tools advisors can presumably use to build their businesses.

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  Advisory Firm Owner: Do You Really Want to Be Big Brother?

  By Angie Herbers  |  February 26, 2013

  So there are multiple digital tools out there for monitoring every minute of your employees' time in the office, including the websites and apps they're using. I tried it, and here's what I learned.

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  Sallie Krawcheck: Top 10 Reasons It’s Bad to Pay Bankers in Stock

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  February 6, 2013

  Krawcheck says it’s time for large banks’ boards to come up with new payment strategies for executives, such as bonds, “which are fundamentally risk-discouraging.”

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  New Frontier for the Yield-Hungry: Student Loans

  By John Sullivan  |  February 5, 2013

  Skyrocketing college tuition costs and nose-diving yields—combine the two and you may have something.

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  Here’s Your Lead Generation Machine

  By Ellen Uzelac  |  January 23, 2013

  Here’s a storyboard you’ll love: Investor checks out financial advisor online and likes what he sees. Investor hires financial advisor.