Massachusetts

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  5 Indie BDs Ordered to Pay $9.6M for Nontraded REIT Violations

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 22, 2013

  Massachusetts Securities Regulator William Galvin ordered five IBDs to pay $8.6 million in restitution to investors and fined them a total of $975,000 for improper sales of nontraded REITs.

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  William Galvin: The 2013 IA 25 Extended Profile

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 22, 2013

  Since taking on an additional 139 advisors with $6.6 billion in assets under the Dodd-Frank “switch,” Massachusetts has “been able to do what the Securities and Exchange Commission hasn’t.”

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  Top 30 Colleges for Highest Starting Salaries

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  May 21, 2013

  Out of 1,058 colleges surveyed, graduates of these schools grabbed the biggest starting salaries from their first jobs.

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  The 2013 IA 25: Advisor Advocates and Regulators

  By Editorial Staff  |  May 20, 2013

  Since the financial crisis, advisors have had to defend their businesses from wary consumers, overzealous legislators and sometimes even other advisors whose unscrupulous actions would cast good advisors in the same shadow as bad advisors.

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  Top 10 Most Expensive States for Long-Term Care: 2013

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 13, 2013

  Will you or one of your clients be one of the 70% of people over 65 who will need long-term care? Genworth’s annual study on the cost of LTC indicates that if you are, you will be paying more for it this year.

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  FINRA: BDs Have a Failure to Communicate on Nontraded REITs

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 6, 2013

  FINRA warned broker-dealers Friday that they were failing to properly communicate to investors the potential pitfalls of nontraded REITs.

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  John Taft: The 2013 IA 25 Extended Profile

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  May 2, 2013

  For John Taft, head of wealth management at RBC Wealth Management, managing clients’ wealth is part of a higher calling.

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  Crossing Paths: The 2013 IA 25

  By Editorial Staff  |  April 29, 2013

  With Investment Advisor's 13th annual list of the most influential individuals in and around the advisor business, we decided to do something different.

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  Reinhart and Rogoff Fight Back

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  April 17, 2013

  Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, in response to a trio of researchers assailing their work, vigorously defended their seminal 2010 study.

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  Advisors Cope With Boston Bombing’s Aftermath

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 16, 2013

  If ever there was a teachable moment on behavioral finance and emotional investing, Monday’s horrific events at the Boston Marathon might have been it.