The Wall Street Journal

• Cohen & Steers: Investors Should Seek High-Dividend Stocks

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  August 24, 2011

  A new white paper released by investment manager Cohen & Steers on Monday maintains that dividend oriented companies are "strongly positioned to continue raising pay-outs and deliver solid returns." The report also says these companies are “trading at attractive prices and offer great upside potential.”

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  PIMCO’s El-Erian Warns U.S. Rating at Risk, Even With Debt Ceiling Deal

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  July 25, 2011

  As leaders of both parties now plan to unveil their own debt-ceiling plans, El-Erian said that a short-term deal would leave “the AAA rating extremely vulnerable and does little” to fix the basic problems of the economy.

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  Krugman: Europe’s Greek Debt Deal Will Kill Recovery

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  July 22, 2011

  The Times' Paul Krugman on the Greek rescue: “The Serious People are determined to destroy all the advanced economies in the name of prudence.”

• Ex-SEC Chief Arthur Levitt Renews Call for Plain-English Disclosures

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  April 4, 2011

  Financial disclosures that are written so that it is impossible for the average citizen to understand it has been, and remains, a bad idea, according to former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt.

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  Top Reasons to Raise the Debt Ceiling, in Recession and Recovery

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  February 24, 2011

  Asset manager James Altucher's popular argument creates new buzz as the budget fight looms.

• Beating the Odds

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  February 1, 2011

• Utah: One State’s Pension Reform Success

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  January 19, 2011

  Despite dire headlines from New Jersey, Illinois, not all states are having trouble.

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  LPL Gets a $30/Share Price for Its IPO

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  November 17, 2010

  The underwriters for LPL Financial, the largest independent broker-dealer, late Wednesday priced its initial public offering of stock, set for Thursday, Nov. 18, at $30/share.

• FPA Announces Oct. 9-12 Annual Conference Keynote Speakers

  By Willette Francis  |  August 20, 2010

  The Financial Planning Association has announced the three keynote speakers who will share their global and domestic financial perspectives at the FPA's October 9-12 annual conference.

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  A 12-Step Program for Wall Street?

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  May 13, 2010

  Some Wall Street firms are being investigated for conduct that does not comport with good business practices but rather the basest forms of self dealing, or allegedly, worse. Maybe Glass-Steagall was a good idea after all.