Warren Buffett

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  400 Economists Endorse Romney

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  August 15, 2012

  A former conservative official has rallied 400 economists, including five Nobel Prize winners, to sign a statement supporting Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s economic policies.

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  Warren Buffett Drops Consumer Stocks, Buys Into Banks

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  August 6, 2012

  Billionaire investor Warren Buffett backed away from stocks in the second quarter, reducing the company’s holdings in consumer-products equities but investing more heavily in the finance sector.

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  New Foundation Center Tool Tracks ‘Giving Pledge’ Donors

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  August 3, 2012

  A new tool on Foundation Center's website monitors Giving Pledgers' activities as part of its 2020 strategic plan to encourage greater transparency in philanthropy.

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  12 Worst Financial Advisors in America

  By Ron Pechtimaldjian, AdvisorOne  |  July 26, 2012

  AdvisorOne found BrokerCop.com’s list and ranked each “Advisor Horribilis” from the past year in reverse order of horribleness, balancing amount of money stolen with amount of “ick” factor involved.

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  Doomsayers Wrong on Last Year’s Debt Downgrade

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  July 16, 2012

  Warnings last August of an unprecedented financial crisis accompanied by fire and brimstone appear to have been wrong.

• Clinton, Other Speakers Headline Insite

  By James J. Green & Joyce Hanson  |  June 27, 2012

  Insite 2012, Pershing’s 14th-annual conference, attracted more than 2,000 attendees, many of whom are broker-dealer home office personnel and BD reps who work through Pershing’s clearing business and use its technology.

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  Deepak Chopra Ponders the Soul of Leadership

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  June 8, 2012

  “Well-being is the one thing that predicts everything,” says Chopra—including the economy, social unrest, conflict, hospital admissions and financial institutions.

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  Is Portfolio Theory Dead? Markowitz Stands His Ground

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  June 5, 2012

  Modern portfolio theory isn’t dead, says theory inventor and Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz.

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  Buffett’s 7 Nuggets of Wisdom at Berkshire Hathaway Meeting

  By Geoff Kirbyson  |  May 7, 2012

  On gold, U.S. banks and the ‘psychotic drunk’ that is the stock market, the Oracle of Omaha has spoken.

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  Berkshire Hathaway Gathering, Pt. 2: How’s Warren Buffett Feeling?

  By Geoff Kirbyson  |  May 6, 2012

  The world’s most-famous octogenarian investor says he’s feeling ‘terrific,’ and discloses the gender, at least, of his likely successor.