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  SEC Enforcement Roundup: $300M Resort Scam Leads to Rum-Soaked Investment

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  January 31, 2013

  Among other enforcement actions this week, the SEC charged five former real estate executives in a $300 million Ponzi scheme involving phony investments in resorts. The spoils went toward boats, planes and a rum distillery.

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  SEC Charges Former Jefferies Exec With MBS Fraud

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  January 28, 2013

  The SEC on Monday charged a former executive at New York-based broker-dealer Jefferies & Co. with defrauding investors while selling mortgage-backed securities in the wake of the financial crisis.

• Time to Rethink Bond Strategy?

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  September 25, 2012

  With current bond yields low, interest rates lower and the economic outlook “cloudy at best,” Ken Volpert, head of Vanguard’s Taxable Bond Group, says the organization “doesn’t think future bond returns will be nearly as robust as they’ve been.

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  Today’s Bond Yields Are ‘Financial Repression’: Vanguard Expert

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  September 10, 2012

  Ken Volpert, head of Vanguard’s Taxable Bond Group, wants to be sure that bond investors are prepared for what lies ahead—namely small to negative returns.

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  Bond Supply to Get Tighter in 2012—Good Thing for Buyers: LPL’s Valeri

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  March 16, 2012

  LPL Financial market strategist Anthony Valeri predicted that the 2012 bond market will see only ‘negligible’ growth, in a repeat of 2011.