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  Focus Financial Adds $1B RIA

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  February 1, 2013

  Portfolio Strategy Group joins the partnership with five advisors.

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  10 Favorite Super Bowl TV Ads by Financial Firms

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  February 1, 2013

  AdvisorOne looked at 46 years of Super Bowl TV commercials, finding favorites starring Homer Simpson, Jerry Seinfeld and an unknown mutual fund pitchman from 1973.

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  Baha, a Gundlach Star, Recalls DoubleLine’s Stormy Beginnings

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  January 30, 2013

  "There is a 'revenge is sweet' factor, but there was also a religious and spiritual element," Baha recalled about life after TCW..

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  The $5.25 Million Question: How to Protect Your HNW Clients’ Children

  By Robert Bloink, Esq., LL.M., William H. Byrnes, Esq.  |  January 29, 2013

  Think your HNW clients can breathe easier because of the now-permanent $5 million exemption for estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes? Think again.

• Political Stand-Offs

  By Kenneth Silber, Research  |  January 23, 2013

  Polarization has become a pervasive and much-noted feature of American politics.

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  SEC, FINRA Enforcement Roundup: Eli Lilly to Pay $29M to Settle Foreign Bribery Charges

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  January 3, 2013

  The SEC recently charged Eli Lilly for violations of the FCPA and barred an Arizona-based fund manager from the industry after the fund’s collapse. FINRA ordered Pruco Securities to pay $10.7 million.

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  Illinois Dragging Feet on Huge Pension Problem

  By Sara Burnett  |  January 2, 2013

  Lawmakers will convene again the first week in January in hopes of fixing the nation's worst case of underfunding state employees' pensions, a problem approaching $100 billion and mounting by $17 million per day.

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  OppenheimerFunds Launches New Philanthropy Program

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  December 27, 2012

  In its new endeavor, OppenheimerFunds is partnering with the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) and Cross-Cultural Solutions

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  Advisors Giving Back: Holiday Slideshow, Part I

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  December 21, 2012

  In our latest slideshow, we pay homage to advisors and their partners who share of their time and talents with their local, national and global community.

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  Wirehouses, IBDs Post Final Recruiting Wins, Losses of 2012

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  December 20, 2012

  Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and other firms saw a number of advisors come and go at year end.