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  Securities America Adds 6 Financial Affiliates With $3.75B in Assets

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  May 16, 2013

  The credit unions and banks include 15 financial advisors and are located in the Midwest, West and Northeast.

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  SEC Enforcement Roundup: Harrisburg, Pa., Charged With Securities Fraud

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 9, 2013

  The city was charged with making misleading public statements. Meanwhile, the SEC charged four traders with bribing a Venezuelan official.

• BDs Share Latest FA

  By Janet Levaux  |  April 29, 2013

  In early April, Baird said it recruited a team of seven employee advisors with about $770 million in client assets from Wells Fargo in Houston, while Royal Alliance announced that it added two independent teams in Chicago and Salt Lake City with combined assets of more than $400 million and...

• Playing Defense on Bonds

  By Ronald L. Delegge  |  April 29, 2013

  The recent bull market in bond prices has been called the biggest bond bubble in history. Thanks to a combination of stock-averse investors and multi-billion dollar purchases of U.S. Treasuries by the Federal Reserve, higher bond prices have fueled the boom. But what happens when the trend reverses? How can...

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  New Hire Roundup: Lincoln Financial Advisors Appoints Joseph Gaeckle

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  April 17, 2013

  This week in new hires, Joseph Gaeckle was appointed managing principal at Lincoln Financial Advisors, and Jeff Conway was named to lead a data analytics group at State Street.

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  Morgan Stanley Adds 9 Merrill, Wells & JPMorgan Advisors

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  April 8, 2013

  In addition, the wirehouse says it has picked up 10 UBS reps in past 5 weeks.

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  529 College Savings Plans: Never Too Late to Start

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 8, 2013

  Late college saving is better than no college saving, says WSJ's Rosenthal.

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  Thornburg, fi360 Team Up for Fiduciary Training Symposium

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  April 5, 2013

  Thornburg's symposium featured the fi360 AIF capstone course and exam. What are your thoughts on fiduciary responsibility? Please take the AdvisorOne-fi360 Fiduciary Survey, which closes today.

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  Top 10 Richest Colleges for 2012—The Biggest Endowments

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  April 2, 2013

  After a big year in 2011, these 10 colleges’ funds rose at a much slower rate last year.

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  National Advisors Trust Taps Former SEI Exec as CEO

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  April 1, 2013

  James Combs Jr. hopes to further boost the RIA-owned trust's earnings, which have been growing in recent years.